Business Travel Consultant

We have a great opportunity for an individual to join our Travel team as a Business Travel Consultant in Birmingham. Within this role you will be required to work alongside the Firm’s Business Travel Team Leader providing a VIP in-house corporate travel service to all partners, fee earners and business services staff.

We are looking for someone who brings to this role experience of working within a business travel consultant role within a corporate environment, demonstrating experience of booking travel for law firms and/or professional services organisations. You will have the ability to ability to understand client requirements and providing the most appropriate solution with the ability to consult with stakeholders at all levels.

To this role you will bring the ability to book complex multi-sector itineraries, excellent geographical, product knowledge of destinations and suppliers and fares knowledge along with good working knowledge of Microsoft products, including Outlook, Word and Excel.

Technical skills and experience.

• Competent in the use of the Galileo CRS (reservations system);


• Qualified to BA standard;


• Airline ticketing knowledge to include knowledge of re-issuing tickets
  
  The opportunity to work for a firm that has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to WorkÂŽ for 24 consecutive years.


Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working


• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave


• Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members


• A generous pension allowance


• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary


• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years


• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes


• A range of health and wellbeing programmes


• State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant


• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development


Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.