School Tour Sales Executive - England
Our retained client is a leading and developing organisation that provides bespoke tour experiences for schools across the UK and internationally, enriching and complementing curriculums.
This business is incredibly passionate about providing meaningful, bespoke, and enriching tour/educational experiences that enable immersive and subject-focused learning experiences that are unforgettable. This is a fantastic and rare to-market opportunity to help develop the organisation's customer base across the English and International schools' market.
The Opportunity:
We are seeking a dynamic, focused and enthusiastic School Tours Sales Executive who is passionate about education, travel and creating unforgettable experiences for Students across the globe. The post holder will be responsible for a wide-ranging remit which entails developing, selling and leading a wide portfolio of tailored tours to schools across the English, UK and International marketplace.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Sales, Marketing and Relationship Management: Promoting and introducing unique tour experiences to schools via an omnichannel approach including networking, direct outreach, social media, school visits and optimising existing contact base.
- Tour Development: Working closely with support teams and end-user schools to design and develop subject-focused tour experiences that both meet the needs of individual schools, exceed expectations and provide a balance of educational value, safety and enjoyment.
- Leadership: Lead on tours, providing relevant educational insights, managing group dynamics and ensuring a positive experience for all attending participants
- Customer Service: Delivering exceptional end-user support and service to schools before, during and after tours. Managing enquiries, feedback and any issues with a high degree of professional integrity and professionalism.
The ideal candidate will be able to evidence much of the following experience, skills and attributes:
- Direct experience selling tailored educational school tours or travel experiences into the UK and International schools' marketplace - desired
- Direct experience of working with the English-based educational market from a travel planning or experience solution provision perspective - essential
- Highly commercial and customer-centric mentality
- Skilful in customer relationship building and networking
- Strong organisational and project management skills
- First-class communication and interpersonal abilities with a passion for sales & marketing
- Passionate about education, experience enrichment and travel
- A willingness to travel both domestically and internationally when required
What's on offer?
- A highly collaborative and supportive work environment
- Extensive opportunity for professional development and personal growth
- The very real opportune to make a tangible positive impact on students' educational journeys
- A highly competitive basic salary (commensurate with experience) supported by pension, extensive benefits and a highly competitive annual bonus