Job Opportunities
Steppes Travel has been operating for over 20 years. We are a travel company where service and knowledge are of the highest priority. Our aim is to design holidays that are tailor made to client requirements. Our priority is to create imaginative itineraries, which, while including the highlights of any country, will additionally take clients off the beaten track to see lesser known, but equally interesting places not frequented by large numbers of tourists.
We believe that personal contact is the essence of a successful holiday. All of our country experts and sales specialists have first-hand experience of the countries they cover - they know the best places to stay, what to see, how to get there and will only design perfect itineraries.
We are always happy to receive applications from candidates with relevant and interesting experience in the travel industry, so if you would like us to consider you for any future vacancies, please send a covering letter and CV to the Managing Director at enquiry@steppestravel.co.uk
Current Vacancies
3 x Sales Support Administrators
2 x office based in Cirencester – Working in our Voyages and our Latin America departments
1 x office based in London at The Traveller (our sister company based in Bury Place WC1A)
Salary £16-19k depending on experience + Benefits
Cirencester based roles: Established leading specialist tailor-made tour operator Steppes Travel www.steppestravel.co.uk & www.steppesdiscovery.co.uk, due to our continued success in 2009 & 2010 we now have a number of new and existing roles we wish to fill.
Sales Support Administrators; for our Latin America and Voyages department. Candidates must have excellent knowledge and experience of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook with strong organisational skills and high levels of accuracy. Excellent communication skills to work directly with the GM and small team of Sales consultants on all aspects of client correspondence and enquiries. The ability to work to strict deadlines with efficiency and a helpful telephone manner is essential. Additional relevant qualifications and country knowledge of Latin America and our Voyage destinations / experience in the travel industry would be an advantage.
London based role:
The Traveller is one of the UK’s leading specialists in archaeological, historical and cultural tours. Formerly the tours department of the British Museum (The British Museum Traveller), The Traveller became an independent company in 2003 and in May 2010 became part of Steppes Travel Ltd.
Sales Support Administrator; candidates must have excellent knowledge and experience of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook with strong organisational skills and high levels of accuracy. Excellent communication skills to work directly with the Head of the Traveller and small team of Sales consultants on all aspects of client correspondence and enquiries. The ability to work to strict deadlines with efficiency and a helpful telephone manner is essential. Additional relevant qualifications and country knowledge of the destinations and/or types of tours The Traveller offer would be an advantage. www.the-traveller.co.uk
Sales Manager – Schools Programme;
Office based in Cirencester or home based
Salary £25-30k dependant on experience + sales incentive bonus + benefits + car / milage allowance
We are looking for a mature/experienced sales manager who has previous knowledge and experience of the ‘schools’ market and is well connected in this part of the industry. You will be required to generate new business enquires and promote the schools programme to a UK & European audience. Own car and Full clean driving licence required
IT Support – 1st & 2nd line IT Support with some Telephone & Sql support
Office based in Cirencester
Salary £19-23k dependant on experience + benefits
We require a problem solver to join our diverse and dynamic team to troubleshoot and fix our IT and Telecoms issues raised by our team of 40 staff in Cirencester and 4 in London. Knowledge of MS office, Exchange, Mitel (telecoms) and Sql, Ruby – although training will be given on basic Sql and Ruby to assist in minor fixes.
Executive Administrator – PA role to the Senior & General Management team
Office based in Cirencester with some travel to/from London
Salary £20-23k
Candidates must have excellent knowledge and experience of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook with strong organisational ‘PA’ skills and high levels of accuracy. Requires excellent communication skills to work directly with the Chairman and Managing Director and team of 8 General Managers. Excellent letter writing skills to be able to deal with client correspondence and enquiries. The candidate will need to have a huge amount of flexibility in multi-tasking and be able to cover reception and also act as office manager when required.
To apply or for further details of these roles, please send a covering letter and CV, detailing what position you are applying for, specifying if it is Cirencester or London based, and send to: jobs@steppestravel.co.uk
Closing date for all applications: 01st August 2010
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