Travel Consultant

About the role

A love of travel attracts many to the field, but to succeed a Travel Consultant must be passionate about travel and the endless opportunities it brings to bridge history, cultures and cuisine. Successful Travel Consultants must have a strong sales drive, organizational skills with an eye for detail, ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment, demonstrated proficiency in navigating computers and various programs; must possess good written and oral communication skills and the ability and interest to be in a continuous learning curve.

Responsibilities

• Sells international and domestic travel packages including cruises, land packages, travel itineraries, air, car, and hotel
• Shares knowledge and expertise from personal experiences and/or education study trips
• Develops long standing relationships with our members and builds referral and repeat business
• Makes appropriate recommendations to ensure the trip experience is more than expected and tailored to the members expectations
• Cross sells relevant products to enhance the trip experience such as AAA Member Rewards Credit Card and identify theft referrals
• For the right individual, this opportunity will be a career path for future leadership opportunities. As you progress, you will be evaluated to determine proficiencies in sales, customer service, administrative, operations, up-selling, cross-selling and meeting goals. Successful completion of evaluations may result in continued growth opportunities to expand into leadership as a manager.

Requirements

• A high school diploma is required, but we prefer a 2- or 4-year college degree
• You need to be able to pass comprehensive criminal background check and thorough urine sample drug screening
• We prefer candidates with a minimum of two years of sales experience in a performance-driven environment where success is measured by sales productivity

Qualifications

• Personal travel opportunities at discounted pricing
• Corporate benefits for insurance products
• Paid educational study trips are available for our Agents to promote career development
• Quarterly incentives/bonuses for achieving established production tiers

Skills

• Love to travel
• Available to work most Saturdays and some evenings to support goal achievement
• Successfully completed our Travel Consultant Trainee program which requires some travel for training
• Driven by sales and exceeding your goals
• Computer savvy with the ability to navigate between multiple systems and web browsers, Microsoft Office, and can type at least 30WPM
• Very organized!

Benefits

• Health coverage for medical, dental, vision
• 401(K) saving plans with company match AND Pension
• Tuition assistance
• Floating holidays and PTO for community volunteer programs
• Paid parental leave
• Wellness programs
• Employee discounts (membership, insurance, travel, entertainment, services and more!)

Pay

Our Travel Consultants start with an hourly rate of $23.50. After completion of our training program, Travel Consultants successfully meeting sales goals earn on average between $67,300 - $82,300 with the opportunity of uncapped incentives.

Schedule

Travel is not just a hobby or a wish, it’s your passion