Asia Pacific Travel Designer. Luxury Private Travel Company are looking for a candidate, with a great love and an extensive knowledge of the Asia Pacific region, to join their friendly team of travel enthusiasts. You will be empathetic and inquisitive, and will harness these qualities to form a deep understanding of your customers; enabling you to craft highly personalised holidays in Asia and Australasia.

Candidate Requirements:

• Deep passion for the Asia Pacific region and extensive knowledge obtained from personal travels to the region
• You value positive-impact, responsible, sustainable travel
• Embrace diversity and eagerness to be part of a close supportive team of colleagues, including business partners
• Good listener and empathetic communicator, in relation to colleagues and customers)
• Open-minded and keen to learn
• Thrives solving problems and maintains calm under pressure
• Motivated and driven
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

The role:

• Guest communication via video call, email and telephone; cultivating relationships and achieving a deep understanding and rapport with the client
• Curation of bespoke travel itineraries which aim to immerse the client in the destination while following responsible travel practices
• Competently close sales and manage pipeline, working effectively with the CRM and company systems and best practices
• Deal with any operational situations in collaboration with wider team and external partners at the destinations.
• Assist the marketing team with the production of editorial content
• Build long-lasting, caring relationships with suppliers on the ground at the destinations
• Source exciting new travel product
• Travel even more in Asia and Australasia! And then return and educate your colleagues on the destinations you visited!

Basic Salary : £28,665 plus generous commission structure of £50,000 – £90,000 (first 6 months includes a commission top-up to ensure you earn minimum £38,000 p.a while you’re mastering the role)

Working Hours : Monday – Friday. 10am – 6pm. 3 days in the office 2 from home. London.

Benefits Include :

• Flexible working
• Mental Well-being Support
• Learning and Development
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Work bank holidays and take other days off instead in order to embrace everyone’s beliefs, culture and identity
• Lots of organised socials events
• Dress however you feel most comfortable
• Dog-friendly office

If you would like to apply for this exciting opportunity to become an Asia Pacific Travel Designer please send your CV with an accompanying cover letter detailing where you have personally travelled in Asia and/or Australasia and why you would like to become an Asia Pacific Travel Designer. Email to harri@candm.co.uk or visit the C&M Travel Recruitment website job reference 58785

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C&M Travel Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all candidates. For more opportunities, please visit www.candm.co.uk