We have an exciting opportunity for a School Account Manager to join our World Challenge brand at Travelopia!

World Challenge is (part of the Travelopia group) the leading provider of educational travel, enriching young people’s lives through delivering experiences that create lifelong memories. We’re the world’s first climate-positive school travel company, something we’re very proud of. With offices in the UK and Australia, our people are at the centre of the organisation – we operate an open, candid, and positive environment where personal development is encouraged and facilitated. Blended working opportunities, a global recognition scheme, and travel opportunities are among the benefits we include as standard.

About the role:

Our School Account Managers build powerful relationships with our schools to secure the repeated launch of successful trips. The School Account Manager will work to ensure the best possible support for our teachers, the effective delivery of our programme to students and the continuation of a meaningful relationship with every client school’s senior leadership.

What you will be doing:

• Foster great relationships with all School Leaders in order to ensure they feel fully supported throughout the programme.
• Establish regular contact with Key Decision Makers such as Heads, Governors and Senior Leadership Teams. This may involve presentations, meetings (mainly through Teams or Zoom), letter and email writing as well as phone conversations.
• Proactively manage the client portfolio in the given territory to ensure annual revenue targets are met, ensuring that every repeat sale reaches its full potential by carefully managing each school.
• Proactively analyse individual school needs and respond to their requirements.
• Design and support the promotion of the launch of the trip within the school and enable the School Leader to deliver student presentations to all applicable year groups.

What we are looking for:

• Love building positive relationships and confident at presenting to teachers, senior leadership teams, parents, students.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Be prepared to get out of the box and think creatively.
• A passion for travel and student development, and previous experience of working in an Account Management role.
• Ability to commit to flexible working hours including some anti-social hours during core selling season in order to fulfil requirement to deliver student and parent presentations to schools, and to attend some weekend conferences.

Join us and in return you will be rewarded with:

• Competitive salary with annual salary review
• 33 days annual leave that increases with length of service (including bank holidays & Educational travel)
• An enhanced employer contribution pension scheme
• International health insurance and Life insurance
• Travel benefits and retail discounts

If you’re looking for your next adventure and have the passion we’re looking for! Apply now for immediate consideration.

We believe people are happier and perform best when they are able to be their true self, and that diverse teams deliver better results.

Together we will cultivate a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment, where everyone can flourish. We are committed to driving change through increasing awareness of, and counteracting, unconscious bias; building an inclusive culture, and embracing diversity in all its dimensions