[Hiring] Luxury Travel Advisor - Africa Specialist @Ultimatejetvacations
Mar 21, 2025 - Ultimatejetvacations is hiring a remote Luxury Travel Advisor - Africa Specialist. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: USA.
Role Description
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Luxury Travel Advisor - Africa Specialist to join our team. This role involves servicing the clients of our travel agency partners, who cater to luxury clientele. As a Luxury Travel Advisor - Africa Specialist, you will be responsible for building strong relationships, creating bespoke travel itineraries, and exceeding sales targets. This individual must have strong organizational, time-management (this role is high volume), and relationship-building skills.
Please Note: this is a fully remote position. We are seeking individuals based in the United States willing to work EST hours.
- Act as the primary point of contact for our partner travel agencies and their luxury travel clients, providing personalized, attentive, and informative services.
- Utilize persuasive skills and strong closing techniques to convert leads into bookings.
- Create bespoke luxury travel itineraries tailored to the client's preferences, ensuring a seamless and unforgettable travel experience.
- Exhibit strong drive and motivation to handle a high volume of leads and consistently exceed targeted goals.
- Proactively address client inquiries, resolve complaints, and manage any issues that arise during the booking and travel process, ensuring availability to clients at all times.
- Continuously build and strengthen relationships with partner agencies through effective communication, regular updates, proactive follow-ups, and engaging support, encouraging repeat bookings.
- Maintain accurate and detailed records of client interactions, travel preferences, and bookings using our internal CRM system.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest luxury travel trends, destinations, and industry developments to provide informed recommendations to clients.
Qualifications
- An experienced Travel Agent, specialized in booking Africa itineraries, with 3+ years of proven sales success (Africa must be your passion!).
- Strong familiarity with Southern Africa is essential, and knowledge of East Africa is a significant advantage.
- Experienced in using the itinerary builder, Wetu (highly preferred).
- Knowledgeable about Margins vs. Markups and how they apply to travel sales.
- A skilled problem-solver, capable of handling challenges and ensuring seamless client experiences—you will be their main point of contact while traveling.
- A relationship-driven sales expert with a strong track record of exceeding sales targets.
- Exceptionally organized and able to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively.
- Detail-oriented, with the ability to provide personalized recommendations tailored to client preferences.
- Tech-savvy, with experience using CRM systems and travel reservation software.
- Self-motivated and able to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.
Company Description
Planning and managing a 5-star vacation from scratch requires expertise, cleverness, and a genuine passion for detail. That's what UJV is all about. UJV is a service-driven team of experts that work behind the scenes, engineering luxury travel experiences for advisors globally, so they can grow their business and fully satisfy their exclusive clients.
- We are the luxury travel advisor’s right hand.
- UJV is a team of travel experts that advises and supports luxury travel advisors worldwide.
- We work behind the scenes as allies of top luxury travel advisors, to offer a 5 Star experience for their clients.
- We offer travel advisors the knowledge and tools needed to grow their business and better serve their exclusive clients.
- We offer an experience-centered service based on passion, expertise, integrity, and attention to detail.
- We are willing to do the hard work in order to see our clients shine.
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Salary
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unspecified
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Remote
Location
USA
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 21, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
