Ski Sales Specialist

Location
Brighton
Salary
Market related
Posted
30 Sep 2014
Closes
02 Dec 2014
Ref
BBB/KHSkiBri
Contact
Inspiring Learning
Contract Type
Contract
Hours
Full Time

An exciting opportunity has become available for someone passionate about sales to join the Ski Sales team as a Ski Sales Specialist. The purpose of this role is to secure sales for our adult ski products by following up on enquiries, encouraging repeat bookings, servicing inbound calls, work closely with our agents, conduct sales campaigns as directed and actively searching for new business.

With over 80 years of expertise, Inspiring Learning are the UK’s leading supplier of educationally rich group tours, school ski trips and activity focused tours. Our portfolio of brands specialise in curriculum focused programmes for schools, colleges and universities in the UK, around Europe and all over the world.

This will be achieved by pro-actively sourcing and converting leads and enquiries procured from all sources into sales, following set KPIs and targets whilst maintaining the highest levels of customer service at all times. 

Ski Sales Specialist - Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

- Proactive selling through identifying up-sell opportunities for all products, and switch selling where possible according to the needs of the business

- Committed and driven to achieve challenging targets set by Sales Managers and Sales Management team

- Providing excellent customer service at all times.

- Responding to all enquiries in a timely manner

- Participating in sales campaigns as indicated by your Sales Manager

- Assisting bookings from point of enquiry through to post tour communication, in liaison with office based Sales Support and Product Delivery teams. 

- Developing and maintaining excellent product knowledge by keeping up to date with new products and curriculum

Ski Sales Specialist - Person Specification:

- Proven success in, and a passion for sales in a demanding and target driven environment.

- Good attention to detail

- Experience within the ski industry – Desirable

- Knowledge, understanding and experience of a consultative selling approach, with the ability to identify and meet customer needs in order to secure a sale.

- A flexible and adaptable approach to the working day, with the ability to manage your time in the most effective and time efficient way in order to utilise your exposure in your geographical area.

- A strong sense of personal ownership and initiative in order to drive sales through to completion.

- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

- Good working understanding of office IT products including MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook and MS PowerPoint 

This is a 6 month fixed term contract to be based in our head office in Brighton.

To submit your CV for this exciting Ski Sales Specialist opportunity, please click ‘Apply’