Business Development Executive - South West England, United Kingdom - Diversity Travel

Diversity Travel

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South West England, United Kingdom

5 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Job description

We are a successful travel management company for the charity and academic communities and we're proud and passionate about what we do.

We are currently looking for an Educational Business Development Executive to join the Diversity Study Trips team to develop new school, college and university business.

You will be responsible for building relationships with teaching staff from universities,colleges and schools to identify and secure new sales opportunities.

Experience of working within or selling to the Education sector is essential, as is a proactive, collaborative and persuasive sales approach.

Primary responsibilities will include:

Building relationships with Universities, Colleges and Schools, following up leads, attending events (on a local and national scale), pitching for new educational accounts
Presenting Diversity Travel brand and products to small and large audiences (parent information evenings, Student Union presentations, Gap year talks, University Heads of Procurement, Academics and administration teams)
Following up on new leads and generating new ones through research and cold calling

Requirements:

Experience of working within or selling to the Education Sector (Schools, Colleges, Universities)
A proactive, collaborative and tenacious sales approach
Demonstrable success in a business development role and managing a sales region
Selfmotivated you will be working from home developing your own sales region
Experience of selling a travel product into the Education sector would be beneficial (but is not essential)

In return you'll receive some fantastic benefits:

An attractive salary (£27,000
£32,000 DOE) plus performance related bonus.
24.5 days holiday (plus bank holidays), rising to 25.5 days
Option to buy or sell annual leave days
Excellent opportunities for internal progression
Pension
Private Healthcare
Employee Assistance Programme
Life Assurance
Season ticket loan
Discounted staff travel
Cycle to Work Scheme

If you're interested in our role and meet the requirements above, then please do get in touch. Our working hours are Monday - Friday, 8.45am - 5.30pm. This is a remote position with the requirement to travel to Manchester for meetings.