Job description
Available Job Today Barrhead Travel, The Holiday and Tailor-Made Travel Specialists are expanding and we are delighted to announce that we are now have an exciting opportunity available for an experienced Trainer to join our amazing team.
Reporting to the Group Head of People Development, you will play a vital role in delivering our learning and development material to an excellent standard to our people, ensuring our new and existing workforce is developed and up skilled to company expectations. This is a fantastic opportunity for a passionate trainer to be part of a fun and exciting team within the UKs leading Travel Agency
Job Description:
- Deliver all aspects of our training program and prepare learning and development plans
- Develop and oversee the production/updating of training handouts, instructional materials and visual aids.
- Direct structured learning experiences and monitor the results
- Acclimate new hires to the business
- Deliver training courses, in particular our 4 week on-boarding induction
- Assess training effectiveness to ensure incorporation of skills and techniques into employees work behaviour and performance
- Periodically evaluate ongoing training programs to ensure that they reflect any changes
- Stay up-to-date with any new trends and tools – paying particular attention to e-learning solutions
- During peak trading times, provide training support in the field to our sales network across the UK
Experience and skills required:
- Proven experience in designing training events in a sales/high paced environment
- Travel knowledge or a passion for the travel industry would be an advantage
- Extensive knowledge of instructional design theory and learning principles
- Proven understanding of the full training cycle
- Familiarity with traditional and modern training methods, tools and techniques
- Ability to provide feedback on a weekly/daily basis
- Sound decision making and organisational skills
- Ability to work on your own or as part of the team
- Ability to present complex information to a variety of audiences
- Proficiency in MS Office including PowerPoint
- Learning and development qualification desirable
- Overnighting and travel throughout the UK may form part of this role
What we offer:
At Barrhead Travel, we don’t simply offer jobs. We offer careers, with real development and growth prospects. You’ll also be joining a family of brilliant colleagues; we love working hard but we play even harder. We were recently named as one of the top 100 employers in the UK to work with. Take a look at some of the many Travel Perks we offer our staff:
- Attractive salary
- The opportunity to travel the world, thanks to our incredible worldwide familiarisation trips which are designed to enhance your product knowledge and customer service skills.
- A Personal Development Plan and our commitment to continued training, development, and career progression - share your career-goals with us and we’ll work together to help you achieve them
- A varied company benefits scheme which includes amazing discounts with UK high street retailers
- Generous staff discounts on your own holidays plus discounts available for family and friends
- 34 days annual leave - well, you need time to enjoy those amazing holiday discounts, don’t you
- Perfect attendance reward - £100 holiday voucher
- Refer a friend incentive - £500 reward
- Company pension scheme
- Long service rewards – love to shop vouchers and celebratory long service lunch or dinner with your colleagues and management
For more information please contact the recruitment team on 0141 488 7324