Contact Centre Sales Advisor - Full Time and Part Time Hours - Homebased or Hybrid Southampton, England
Job description
Job Description
We recognise the value in having people with a variety of backgrounds, experience and skills in our business. That means the role requirements here should be seen as a guide, not a checklist. If you have more, less or different experiences, but really relevant skills, we’d love to hear from you.
We work flexibly and will help you to find a healthy balance of remote working and time in our fantastic Southampton office, collaborating, taking part in events and getting to know people that makes working with us so rewarding. We welcome the opportunity to discuss reduced hours and job share arrangements.
The Role
In the role of the Contact Centre Sales Advisor, you will demonstrate a passion for our brand when talking to our guests. Using your product knowledge and exceptional sales skills you will convert guests to book with us via inbound calls. Through drive and enthusiasm, you will recognise opportunities on every call to maximise the guests cruise experience through the selling of cruise holiday products, ancillaries, and upselling. We’ll look to you to proactively generate new leads as well as retaining existing guests. Delivering guest satisfaction and a memorable experience is what we’re in the business for, and you’ll be at the heart of that.
Our role categories range from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President) so you can clearly see internal development opportunities. This role is a CUK13 and is offered on a full-time or part-time, permanent basis with at least two days based in our Southampton office or may be considered on a fully remote basis where applicable. Hours can be provided between 22.5 hours per week - 40 hours per week with set rotations.
About You
Fresh ideas and different perspectives are what excite us most and help us to succeed. Alongside bringing these to the role, you’ll also need:
- Excellent sales and customer service skills, with the desire to go the extra mile for our guests
- Experience within a contact centre/high volume/customer service/ travel industry role
- Experience of working towards KPI’s, achieving conversion targets and guest satisfaction measures
- Proven track record of hitting sales targets
- Ability to use sales techniques to convert sales enquiries to bookings
- Utilise sales techniques to cross sell and increase average booking value
- Work with guests to offer solutions to retain bookings by offering benefits and alternatives
- Flexibility to work shift patterns including evenings and weekends
Being part of our team has its advantages…
We’re a holiday company so we know there’s more to life than work. Our comprehensive range of benefits are designed to help suport your personal and financial health and wellbeing.
- Comprehensive training and embedding period
- Opportunity to visit ships in our fleet in Southampton
- Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers and late availability cruises
- Home and office-based hybrid working (minimum two office days)
- Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
- Extensive learning and development opportunities
- Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
- Fantastic office space and location, close to local amenities and cruise ports in the heart of Southampton, offering a fun vibrant culture
- Employee-led networks
- Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes
- Recognition scheme with prizes and awards
- Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
- Company paid Health Cash Plan and health assessment
- In-house Occupational Health support and access to digital GP
- Life Assurance
- Parental and adoption leave
- Employee Shares Plan
- Electric Car and Cycle to Work schemes
- Onsite restaurant offering range of healthy cooked and grab and go meals
- Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal
About Us
No one knows cruising like Carnival UK, where talented people from across the globe come together to create unforgettable holiday happiness. As part of the world’s largest holiday travel and leisure company, we take enormous pride in bringing to life two of the most iconic brands from Britain’s rich seafaring heritage, P&O Cruises and Cunard. Collectively they have been delivering unbridled joy, boundless adventure and lifelong memories to millions of people for over 350 years. And in a multi-million pound global holiday market, where cruising has barely scratched the surface, we have the opportunity to do that for many, many more people.
Our diverse yet tight knit teams share high standards, heartfelt values and passion for our purpose. Our Culture Essentials describe the expectations we have for ourselves and of each other, in building a culture that supports safe, sustainable, compliant operations and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion.
It’s through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture, that we hope to become Travel’s Employer of Choice.
To keep everyone on board fit and well, colleagues who visit or work on our ships must be fully vaccinated, including boosters. We’re reviewing this requirement regularly.
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