Senior Tour Consultant – Team Leader
Olanka Travels
Job description
About the role
As a Team Leader, you will lead and develop a team of Destination Experts (Tour Consultants) while driving sales performance, conversion, gross profit, customer experience and sales quality.
Key responsibilities
- Lead and coach a team of 5+ Destination Experts / Tour Consultants.
- Drive team sales, GP, conversion and productivity performance.
- Manage enquiries, pipeline, follow‑ups and lead allocation.
- Support the team with complex sales, negotiations and closing.
- Conduct coaching, 1:1s and performance reviews.
- Identify performance gaps and drive corrective and development actions.
- Ensure sales quality, CRM accuracy and process/SOP compliance.
- Handle customer escalations and work with Operations and Customer Care.
- Build expertise in destinations, markets and travel products.
- Handle 5–10 strategic/complex enquiries while prioritising team leadership.
- Build a positive, accountable and high‑performance sales culture.
Required profile
- Proven experience as a Travel Consultant or similar travel sales role.
- Strong track record of achieving sales, conversion and GP targets.
- Strong knowledge of travel sales, costing, itinerary development and customer handling.
- Previous team‑leading, mentoring or coaching experience is an advantage.
- Strong leadership and people‑development skills with the ability to motivate and hold team members accountable.
- Good understanding of sales pipeline and enquiry management.
- Strong customer service and negotiation skills.
- Good working knowledge of CRM and sales systems.
- Strong written and spoken English communication skills.
- Ability to analyse sales performance and take timely corrective action.
- Ability to work effectively in a target‑driven, fast‑paced and performance‑focused environment.
- Strong teamwork, ownership, accountability and problem‑solving mindset.
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