Home Based Spanish Speaking Booking Consultant
Student.com, Spain
Job Description
Student.com is the world’s leading marketplace for international student housing, helping students find their perfect home abroad. With over 800,000 beds in more than 400 cities and in close proximity to 1,000 universities, we offer the best choice of quality housing options. We took bookings from students in over 120 countries last year.
The International Sales amp; Customer Service team is growing and we are now looking for more talented people who are passionate about helping students finding suitable accommodation (perhaps you have been there yourself), love travel and will be able to provide guidance and reassurance to our students.
All of our customers are driven from our partners or customers leaving their details on our website: www.student.com. we build trust with our customers and provide value by offering the best accommodation option based on their needs.
This is a home based permanent position to help us with students who are looking to book student accommodation. We are a growing team who offer excellent and an accelerated career path for customer focused, driven and ambitious individuals. At student.com, we also offer excellent benefits including full training and development.
Main responsibilities:
- Answer inbound calls and emails from students
- Make outbound calls to students and accommodation partners
- Contact and progress every lead to maximise sales opportunities through multiple contact methods
- Consult customers to understand their needs and empower them to make a purchasing decision
- Build strong customer rapport through high quality written and oral communication, and by demonstrating excellent product knowledge
- Manage knowledge about the booking process and all service options available for students
- Complete all required administration and recording of sales through CRM system and other business systems
- Manage the entire selling circle, ie. selling and customer service ( post sales )
- Build strong relationships with team members, and provide flexible and prompt support at all times
Requirements
Candidate profile
- Ability to build rapport, handle objections and close sales in English and Spanish.
- Someone who is able to influence and empower the customer to make a purchasing decision.
- Excellent interpersonal and written/oral communication skills.
- Ability to use multiple customer contact and online systems. Knowledge of Salesforce desired but not essential.
- Excellent team player who contributes ideas for the success of the team.
- Self-motivated, results oriented sales person with track record of delivering to targets.
- Ability to manage different tasks at the same time.
- Quick to learn and apply knowledge.
- Resilient and consistent, with ability to bounce back from setbacks and remain focused on goals.
- Flexible with regards to shift patterns and working hours.
- Ability to adapt in fast pacing work environment.
Essential skills and experience
- Good command of English language. Spanish native level
- Experience of selling to customers
- Experience in telesales role working with sales targets and KPIs preferred
- Consultative selling techniques
- Bachelor degree or relevant work experience
Benefits
Competitive salary (13.5k euros per annum) plus sales bonus - Full time position