Want to work for one of the fastest growing companies in London?
This is your opportunity to join the dynamic sales team of Your Golf Travel, Europe's largest golf travel company and one of Britain's fastest growing private business'. YGT is responsible for organising Golf Travel Holidays in and around 22 countries worldwide, to over 250,000 golfers every year. We are looking for an experienced Call Centre Sales and Training Manager to manage the call centre of 40+ energetic sales consultants on a daily basis.
Your Golf Travel is one of the UK's fastest growing private companies, listed in the Sunday Times 'Fast Track 100' 3 times between 2009 and 2011. It also ranked as London's fastest-growing private company. We are planning to launch many other exciting projects in the travel and leisure arena in 2012 and beyond.
Current positions available
Responsibilities will include:
- Dealing with UK and International suppliers; posting purchase invoices onto Sage, both in GBP and overseas currencies
- Accurate price checking
- Trade Creditor reconciliations
- Reconciling Supplier Payments/ refunds in system against bank
- and other responsibilities within the team.
The successful candidate will have:
- 5 GCSEs including Maths and English (A-C) minimum
- ACCA qualified (or similar)
- Previous purchase ledger experience is essential. This is a fast paced role and the successful candidate will need to ‘hit the ground running’
- Experience using Sage
- Competent IT skills, particularly in Excel and Outlook
To apply for this position, Email your CV to annem@yourgolftravel.com and include Accounts Payable Manager in the subject line.
- Employer: Your Golf Travel Ltd
- Salary: Negotiable
- Hours: 9.00am – 6.00pm Monday to Friday
- Location: London EC1, Farringdon.
- Duration: Permanent
- Commence: February 2013.
With a little help fromRuby on Rails, Rspec, CouchDB, Jquery(Javascript), CSS2/3 and HTML we are currently working on a complete re-design and build of the YourGolfTravel.com site which will massively improve the user experience across our web and mobile platforms. After that, we’ll be moving on to building the back end infrastructure to enable us to power a wide range of new niche travel and leisure sites. We’ve also got plenty of new features we’d like for our internal systems, as well as some interesting standalone projects coming up.
Your Golf Travel.com is one of the UK's fastest growing private companies, thrice listed in the Sunday Times "Fast Track 100" (at number 6 in 2010). It also ranked as London's fastest-growing private company. Spabreaks.com launched in 2008 is already the UK's largest supplier of spa breaks.
As a Mid Level Developer you will have the chance to significantly impact upon the shape of a large number of internal and external systems, and you will be able to shape your role within the team to fit your particular brand of technical skills.
As a Senior Developer you will be involved in the design, development, testing, release, management and maintenance of various software solutions as well as mentoring junior team members and helping to improve our Agile development processes. This is an ideal position for an enthusiastic developer who enjoys finding the best solutions in collaboration with developers and works hard to ensure their share of the product is ready on time.
What we like…
- Ruby on Rails (preferably 3+)
- ECMAScript and jQuery
- Test-driven development
- Git (we like ninja-like skills here!)
- CouchDB
- Horizontal scaling
- Agile/scrum
Who we like
We want to employ people who:
- Enjoy life in and outside the office
- Work hard and enjoy their work
- Are active in the Ruby/Rails communities
- Are excellent communicators
- Enjoy having their ideas challenged
- Are not afraid to tell us how we can get stuff done faster and better
- Enjoy pairing
- Care about web standards
- Love simplicity
- Aren't scared of getting involved in devops/sysops
- Can be pragmatic (we love rocket scientists, but we like them to come down to earth when necessary!)
Who we are…
Palatinate Group Limited is a UK-based leisure and holiday specialist based in the trendy Farringdon area of London. Our business is focused in the Golf, Spa and Horse Racing markets with the majority of our business being generated through YourGolfTravel.com and Spabreaks.com
With a team of over 100 employees we are dedicated not only to growing and improving our current sites but also to developing and launching new sites, constantly growing our portfolio and retaining the buzz that comes with the 'start up' feel and culture.
What we offer…
We'll provide you with all the tools (Mac or PC) that you need to do your job well, and our tech team is moving into a newly-refurbished space early in the new year. We're based in central London (in fashionable Clerkenwell Green), so there’s lots of opportunity to enjoy oneself outside the office - we like to think of ourselves as a very sociable team!
If you think you might be a good fit for our team, get in touch with your CV and a paragraph about yourself: tech-jobs@yourgolftravel.com. We'll pay £35-50k, depending on your experience, and we run a company share scheme for exceptional members of staff.
If you come for an interview with us you'll get to meet every member of the team - our hiring process is as collaborative as the way we code. Everyone who comes for interview here will pair program some code during their interview.
The Role
As an Overseas Sales Specialist you will be expected to respond promptly to enquiries that are generated by phone, email, the website and our online partners to assist clients in booking all elements of their golfing holiday.
Your Golf Travel aims to offer more than just a booking service. Armed with exceptional venue and product knowledge, our sales team offer a consultancy service for golfers looking to book their next golf holiday. Sales Specialists are expected to establish the client's individual requirements and make recommendations accordingly.ents of their golf holiday.
Key Responsibilities…
- Selling golf holidays via inbound / outbound leads (Target led)
- Phone calls (receiving & making calls to clients and venues, minimum numbers in place)
- Emails (quotes to clients and communication with the venues)
- Calculating costs & preparing package quotes (including flights)
- Knowledge of Overseas venues and golf destinations is essential
- Creating your own client database
- Managing customer accounts for the Your Golf Travel Database
- Confirming all bookings with venues and customers
- Collecting customer feedback
- Dealing with amendments to booking details where necessary (tee times, group numbers, etc...)
- Provide an after sales service to clients by offering additional products (transfers, car hire, etc...)
- Taking payments via electronic payment systems
Required Experience…
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Essential knowledge of golf and destinations in Europe and Worldwide
- Full knowledge of GRS/CRS "Armadeus" preferred
- Competitive nature
- Proven track record of good time management skills
- Direct customer service/communication skills and experience
- Driven and willing to drive sales
- Proven record of high sales and successfully meeting targets
- Computer literate in Excel, Google Applications and Word
- Show good negotiation skills
- A team player
- Rapport Building
- Eye for detail
Ideal Candidate…
The ideal candidate will be a passionate individual with a solid background in a sales and targeted environment, preferably within the travel industry and have knowledge of golf and its associated top venues overseas and in the UK. Someone who is self motivated to achieve their own personal sales targets, but willing to work within a team of others to reach both company and team targets. Positive attitude to all aspects of their work, to help motivate others and a professional manner ensuring they are capable of dealing with a broad spectrum of customers.
Salary / Benefits…
- The opportunity for career progression
- Working in a fast-paced fun environment
- Salary of £30K OTE
- Company trips to the key venues both in the UK and Overseas
The Role
As a Sales Specialist you will be expected to respond promptly to enquiries that are generated by phone, email, the website and our white labels products to assist clients in booking all elements of their golf holiday.
Your Golf Travel aims to offer more than just a booking service. Armed with exceptional venue and product knowledge, our sales team offer a consultancy service for golfers looking to book their next golf holiday. Sales Specialists are expected to establish the client's individual requirements and make recommendations accordingly.ents of their golf holiday.
Key Responsibilities…
- Selling golf holidays via inbound / outbound leads (Target led)
- Phone calls (receiving & making calls to clients and venues, minimum numbers in place)
- Emails (quotes to clients and communication with the venues)
- Calculating costs & preparing package quotes
- Creating your own client database
- Managing customer accounts for the Your Golf Travel Database
- Confirming all bookings with venues and customers
- Collecting customer feedback
- Dealing with amendments to booking details where necessary (tee times, group numbers, etc...)
- Provide an after sales service to clients by offering additional products (transfers, car hire, etc...)
- Taking payments via electronic payment systems
Key Attributes
- Excellent communication skills
- Competitive nature
- Good time management
- Driven
- Dedication
- Computer literate
- Negotiator
- Gregarious
- Determination
- Rapport building
- Eye for detail
- Confidence
And we have great benefits too!
- Regular free Company golf trips (both domestic and overseas)
- Company team-building activities
- Company 5-a-side football team
- Company 20/20 cricket team
- Trips to see the company racehorses
- Lively and vibrant central London office in Farringdon
- The opportunity for career progression
- Basic salary between £18k to £20k
- Uncapped commission structure – realistic OTE of £10k in your first year.
- Friday afternoon drinks a must!
Your Golf Travel, Europe’s largest golf travel company and one of Britain’s fastest growing private business. Your Golf Travel is part of the Palatinate Group.