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Why Work For World Travel Holidays (UK) Ltd

We are a recognised Industry leader, our brands are:

Cruise 118.com - the UK’s fastest growing cruise retail brand and the home of the award-winning Cruise Concierge Service
SixStarCruises.co.uk – Europe’s largest seller of ultra-luxury cruises
RiverVoyages.com – the UK’s fastest growing seller of river cruises

Times Top 100 - Best companies to work for 2020 - 3* Accreditation

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95% feel their manager talks openly and honestly

Our people love working here!

We invest in growth and development of our employees - to make you the experts that our customers know and love. We provide ongoing training and excellent career progression

Our employees feel valued and trusted

With a culture of open and honest communication, we put our employees’ opinions and welfare at the forefront of everything we do.

Integrity – a foundation of the business

We work within a fun, dynamic, honest and professional culture, creating dream holidays and unforgettable experiences for our customers, in an environment where your voice will be heard and ideas welcome.

We are currently recruiting for:

Note : For the below vacancies, please email [email protected]. For any ship careers, please contact the cruise lines directly.

**Next start date is 2nd September 2024**

Purpose of the role

You will be the point of contact for our customers enquiring about their booked holiday via phone, email leads and web-chats. Our customer queries will require you to administrate and quality check bookings such as sending invoices, tickets plus make amendments and adding holiday extras where you can earn commission. You will aim to resolve all customer queries on initial contact whilst striving to deliver our award-winning concierge service.

What you need

  • Experience working in cruise sales, cruise or travel industry, luxury tour operator, hotel, resort is preferred (but not essential)
  • You will have strong experience in a customer service background
  • Experience cruising, working on cruise lines, abroad, or have travel or holiday experience (having some first-hand travel/destination knowledge is preferred)
  • You will be someone who thrives in a fast-paced working environment and can learn to use systems and keep good administration on customers and bookings
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Confidence and personality to build rapport quickly
  • Passion and enthusiasm for cruising and travel

What you get in return

  • Salary: £22,734 - £24,000 p.a. (Dependant on experience)
  • 22 days holiday, plus bank holidays which increases with service
  • Remote, hybrid and office based working- the choice is yours
  • Contributory company pension scheme
  • Company paid parking permit
  • Discounts on cruises and holidays for you & your family
  • Annual uncapped concession towards your own cruise holiday
  • Discounted travel insurance
  • Paid leave day for volunteer charity work or to participate in a fundraising event
  • Annual attendance bonus
  • Access to an employee discount platform which offers savings on everyday purchases
  • Enhanced maternity package
  • Enhanced paternity pay
  • Refer a friend bonus
  • Paid day off work on your birthday
  • Training contributions

Our Values

  • We deliver – We build plans to focus on the right things, and we make them happen
  • We are passionate – we are approachable and direct and straightforward to deal with
  • We strive to be better – We push for excellence and innovation in everything we do
  • We are connected to our customers – We listen, understand and engage with our customers

**Next start date is 2nd September 2024**

Purpose of the role

Passionate about selling cruise holidays? We are looking for individuals who are highly motivated and target driven with the ability to multi-task who are keen to progress and grow with us.

You will be selling our customers their dream cruise whilst ‘delivering a remarkable experience.’

Our Sales Concierge undertake a 3-week training induction programme with a further 3 weeks in our ‘grad bay’. You will have reduced sales targets for the first few months whilst you settle in. We will also provide you with on-going training, coaching and support.

What you will be doing

  • Selling cruise holidays over the phone and online chat across all cruise lines including tailor making to fit the customer’s specific requirements i.e. adding flights, transfers, hotels, and land tours, if required.
  • Converting incoming calls and online chats into bookings to meet your personal and team targets.
  • Following up leads, acting on customer buying signals and maximising sales leads.
  • Delivering on agreed customer and sales targets (KPI’s)
  • Following company processes to ensure all bookings are completed accurately.
  • Offering remarkable customers service by building rapport, understanding the needs of each customer, and using personal experience to encourage customer loyalty and retention.
  • Taking the workload off our customers shoulders and letting them focus on enjoying the cruise!

What you need

  • Passionate about selling cruises!
  • Previous cruise sales experience gained in a retail or cruise travel agent or tour operator preferred
  • Experience using cruise line systems preferred
  • Previous homeworking experience
  • Proven experience of hitting and exceeding sales targets
  • Experience cruising, working on cruise lines or previous travel experience - first-hand travel/destination knowledge is beneficial
  • You will be someone who thrives in a fast-paced working environment
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Ability to take ownership of your own personal development to build on product knowledge e.g. understanding the current marketing campaigns to maximise customer sales opportunities
  • Dedicated to providing customers with the absolute best in one-to-one personal service

What you get in return

  • Salary: £23,871 basic plus lucrative uncapped bonus scheme (realistic OTE £40,000 - £50,000 p.a.)
  • 22 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays
  • Option of hybrid, office, or homeworking
  • Contributory company pension scheme
  • Company paid parking permit
  • Discounts on cruises and holidays for you & your family
  • Annual uncapped concession towards your own cruise holiday
  • Discounted travel insurance
  • Paid leave day for volunteer charity work or to participate in a fundraising event
  • Annual attendance bonus
  • Access to an employee discount platform which offers savings on everyday purchases
  • Enhanced maternity package
  • Enhanced paternity pay
  • Refer a friend bonus
  • Paid day off work on your birthday
  • Training contributions

Our Values

  • We deliver – We build plans to focus on the right things, and we make them happen
  • We are passionate – we are approachable and direct and straightforward to deal with
  • We strive to be better – We push for excellence and innovation in everything we do
  • We are connected to our customers – We listen, understand and engage with our customers

**Fixed Term Contract: 12 months (Maternity Cover)**

Purpose of the role

Reporting to the Head of Product & Commercial - Cruise118.com, the Assistant Product Manager will support the wider product and commercial teams in delivering on product KPI’s, creating and promoting the strongest cruise line messages across all channels; through sourcing, building and provision of competitive, new, and engaging product.

Working closely with Product Executive’s on taking ownership of exclusive commitments, inventory and groups identifying new opportunities available to the business within this sector, as well as dealing with suppliers on a day-to-day basis to manage different components to maximise product differentiation and margin.

What you will be doing

  • Work with senior management to manage and deliver the Product KPI’s for Cruise118.
  • Conduct regular in-depth analysis (sales trends, cruise lines, competitors).
  • Review and analyse data, performance, and processes to ensure margin and efficiency improvements across all suppliers to increase profitability and productivity.
  • Liaise with Marketing and the Product team to ensure weekly promotions across all channels are delivered in a timely manner.
  • General management of our online booking platform and functions.
  • Support Head of Product & Commercial with building relationship with all key partners.
  • Implement and manage actions on a regular basis supporting priority targets.
  • Working with Product and our development team in improving systems and website functionality.
  • Represent the product department in trading meetings twice weekly.
  • Ensure that daily operations within the department are streamlined and consistently delivered.
  • Manage, alongside Senior Tour Operator Executive, product build strategies on a regular basis.
  • Oversee our group policies, processes, inventory and performance.
  • Liaise with suppliers on management of group allocation and new opportunities.
  • Work with Senior Managers and Supplier Relations teams on ad hoc projects, and other duties as assigned.

What you need

  • 2 - 3 years cruise product experience
  • Experience in people or workstream management
  • Have a mature, confident and proactive approach
  • Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines, whilst maintaining accuracy
  • Excellent organisation and communication skills
  • A strong team player, who will influence both internally and externally
  • Ability to ‘think on your feet’
  • Lively and outgoing personality

What you get in return

  • Salary: £28,000 - £32,000 – dependent on experience
  • 30 days annual leave (incl. bank holidays) which increases with service
  • Hybrid Working: 2 x days office & 3 x days home
  • Contributory company pension scheme
  • Company paid parking permit
  • Discounts on cruises and holidays for you & your family
  • Annual uncapped concession towards your own cruise holiday
  • Discounted travel insurance
  • Paid leave day for volunteer charity work or to participate in a fundraising event
  • Annual attendance bonus
  • Access to an employee discount platform which offers savings on everyday purchases
  • Enhanced maternity package
  • Enhanced paternity pay
  • Refer a friend bonus
  • Paid day off work on your birthday
  • Training contributions

Our Values

  • We deliver – We build plans to focus on the right things, and we make them happen
  • We are passionate – we are approachable and direct and straightforward to deal with
  • We strive to be better – We push for excellence and innovation in everything we do
  • We are connected to our customers – We listen, understand and engage with our customers

Purpose of the role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to start their career within our rapidly growing Marketing team, working closely with our development team and Digital Project Manager to improve our customers journeys onsite. This role is ideal for someone who has recently completed a relevant digital marketing apprenticeship or qualification and is looking to put their skills into practise and learn whilst in the role.

Do you have a technical aptitude, and real attention to detail? Do you have an analytical mind and a desire to continually improve insight and the digital customer experience?

If so, this could be the role for you. We are looking for someone with excellent organisation skills, and good attention to detail for reporting and analysis, but also a creative thinker with new ideas to work within our marketing and digital web development team, being able to translate business requirements into a development brief.

What you will be doing

  • Working closely with the web development team to brief in business requirements; ability to mock up designs to translate this, and a basic knowledge of HTML is required here.
  • To update and maintain our project management platform (JIRA), posting timely updated and feedback.
  • Work alongside the Digital Project Manager to ensure development work is tested thoroughly, for each release.
  • To administer content on the website including using our web personalisation and dynamic content tool.
  • Utilise Google Analytics to identify areas of poor performance and present opportunities for conversion rate optimisation testing.
  • Analyse the UX across our websites, including competitor analysis – Create and implement an A/B testing roadmap off the back of this, to show different variations of your work to our customers, striving to improve each of their journeys across our websites, and validate any development changes.
  • Create, update and distribute reports to the wider business on the performance of your work and proposing actions based on data analysis to help support key decision making across the business.
  • Be the gatekeeper of our ticketing system / work flow management tool, managing incoming requests, and directing these to the appropriate team.
  • Thorough knowledge of our bespoke content management system; becoming the initial point of contact for any queries.

What you need

Attitude and aptitude are as important to us as experience and qualifications. So whether you are already in a digital marketing or analytics role, or if you have built your own website whilst studying and now want to progress your career, get in touch with us today.

A marketing qualification or some previous experience in digital marketing or development is desirable for this role, as is an enthusiastic attitude and excellent communication skills.

  • Excellent numerical, analytical skills; Ability to deliver insights rather than just data.
  • Attention to detail and accuracy.
  • A good communicator and problem solver.
  • Outgoing and able to share creative ideas and opinions with the wider team.
  • Happy to take on projects with new and/or unfamiliar technology.
  • Creatively minded.
  • A basic understanding of HTML & CSS to create digital assets for websites (not essential).
  • Experience working with Jira, Slack or other project management tools, and Involvement in Agile Development Projects.
  • Experience working with a website A/B/ testing platform (not essential).
  • Proficient in MS Office software, especially Excel.
  • Experience working with Google Analytics, and or Looker Studio.

What you get in return

  • Salary: £23,871
  • 30 days annual leave (incl. bank holidays) which increases with service
  • Hybrid Working: 2 x days office & 3 x days home
  • Contributory company pension scheme
  • Company paid parking permit
  • Discounts on cruises and holidays for you & your family
  • Annual uncapped concession towards your own cruise holiday
  • Discounted travel insurance
  • Paid leave day for volunteer charity work or to participate in a fundraising event
  • Annual attendance bonus
  • Access to an employee discount platform which offers savings on everyday purchases
  • Enhanced maternity package
  • Enhanced paternity pay
  • Refer a friend bonus
  • Paid day off work on your birthday
  • Training contributions

Our Values

  • We deliver – We build plans to focus on the right things, and we make them happen
  • We are passionate – we are approachable and direct and straightforward to deal with
  • We strive to be better – We push for excellence and innovation in everything we do
  • We are connected to our customers – We listen, understand and engage with our customers

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