Travel Sales Consultant – Holidays & Leisure Packages
Red Carpet Tours Pvt Ltd
Job Title: Travel Sales Consultant – Holidays & Leisure Packages
Location: Mumbai
Experience Required: 1.5 – 2 Years
About the Role
We are looking for a dynamic and result-oriented Travel Sales Consultant with experience in the travel industry and a strong background in leisure and holiday sales. The ideal candidate should possess excellent destination knowledge, expertise in holiday package creation, and the ability to convert travel inquiries into successful sales.
Key Responsibilities
- Handle customer inquiries for domestic and international holiday packages.
- Design and customize travel itineraries based on client preferences, budgets, and travel requirements.
- Prepare package costing, quotations, and travel proposals.
- Coordinate with hotels, airlines, transport providers, and other travel vendors.
- Provide accurate information regarding destinations, sightseeing, transfers, visas, and travel logistics.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients to ensure repeat business.
- Negotiate with suppliers to obtain competitive rates and maximize profitability.
- Follow up on leads and inquiries to achieve sales targets and conversion goals.
- Stay updated on travel trends, destinations, and industry developments.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 1.5 to 2 years of experience in the Travel Industry.
- Proven experience in Leisure/Holiday Package Sales.
- Strong knowledge of Domestic and International Destinations.
- Hands-on experience in Holiday Package Creation, Costing, and Itinerary Planning.
- Understanding of hotels, sightseeing arrangements, transfers, visas, and travel logistics.
- Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and client-handling skills.
- Strong sales acumen with a proven track record of converting inquiries into bookings.
- Proficiency in MS Office and travel booking tools is an added advantage.
Mandatory Requirements
- Travel industry experience is mandatory.
- Destination knowledge and package-making experience are essential.
- Candidates from non-travel backgrounds will not be considered.
Why Join Us?
- Competitive salary package.
- Opportunity to work with a growing travel organization.
- Exposure to domestic and international travel products.
- Performance-driven work culture with growth opportunities.
Posted: 1 week ago
Manager — Banking Relationships & Payment Commercials
Etrav Technology
Manager — Banking Relationships & Payment Commercials
Job Title Manager — Banking Relationships & Payment Commercials
Department Finance & Accounts (Treasury)
Job Location Mumbai (Head Office)
Experience 8+ years, mandatory banking / payments background
Key Responsibilities:
Banking Relationship Management
• Act as the group's single point of contact and owner of all banking partner relationships across Etrav Tech and Eagle Crest.
• Build and maintain strong, healthy, long-term relationships with relationship managers, product heads, and senior banking stakeholders.
• Conduct regular business reviews with each bank, manage escalations, and ensure consistent service quality and responsiveness.
• Map the banking ecosystem, maintain a diversified panel of partners, and identify and onboard new banking partners where they deliver better terms or capability.
Corporate Credit Cards
• Own and manage all corporate credit card programs across the group, including issuance, limits, controls, and lifecycle management.
• Negotiate best-in-market card commercials: cashback and reward rates, credit limits, interest-free / float periods, fee waivers, and airline / category-specific benefits.
• Optimize card spend routing across issuers to maximize cashback yield and free-credit float on airline and supplier payments.
• Coordinate with the Finance team on accurate reconciliation of card spends, cashback, and reward realization.
Payment Gateway & POS Commercials
• Own commercial relationships with payment gateways, aggregators, and POS / terminal providers used for agent and customer collections.
• Negotiate the lowest achievable MDR, transaction fees, setup, and maintenance charges, and renegotiate as volumes grow.
• Benchmark payment gateway and POS commercials continuously against the market across cards, UPI, net banking, and wallets.
• Manage settlement cycles (e.g. T+1), chargeback terms, success-rate optimization, and reconciliation support, and evaluate / onboard new providers where beneficial.
Overall Banking & Forex Commercials
• Negotiate all banking commercials: current account terms, transaction banking and cash-management charges, NEFT / RTGS / IMPS fees, and BG / LC pricing.
• Negotiate competitive forex spreads, remittance charges, and cross-border payment commercials supporting Eagle Crest's overseas DMC operations.
• Negotiate and manage credit lines, working-capital, and overdraft facilities on the best available rates, limits, and terms.
• Optimize float, idle balances, and liquidity arrangements (sweeps / auto sweeps) to improve working-capital efficiency.
Market Intelligence & Benchmarking
• Maintain a live, documented benchmark of the best commercials available in the market across banks, gateways, and card issuers.
• Track new banking and payment products, schemes, network changes, and RBI / regulatory developments that affect commercials.
• Proactively bring cost-saving and revenue-enhancing proposals to the Managing Director with clear commercial business cases.
Compliance & Governance
• Ensure all banking and payment arrangements remain compliant with RBI guidelines, FEMA (for forex / cross-border), KYC norms, and PCI-DSS where applicable.
• Maintain complete and current documentation of every agreement, commercial term, amendment, and renewal.
• Coordinate with Finance and internal audit to ensure all negotiated commercials are correctly applied, billed, and reconciled.
Key Performance Indicators
• Blended Payment Cost: Reduce blended MDR plus gateway / POS processing cost as a percentage of payment throughput against a defined baseline, reviewed monthly.
• Corporate Card Yield: Maximize total card value realized — cashback, rewards, and free-credit float — as a percentage of corporate card spend.
• Commercial Benchmarking: Maintain 100% of banking, card, and payment commercials at or better than the prevailing market benchmark, validated through quarterly benchmarking reviews.
• Relationship Health: Maintain active, healthy relationships with all partner banks and resolve service escalations within agreed SLAs, with no unresolved relationship breakdowns.
• Forex & Remittance Cost: Reduce the average forex spread and remittance cost on Eagle Crest cross-border DMC payments against baseline.
• Working-Capital & Facility Terms: Secure best-available interest rates, limits, and terms on credit lines and working-capital facilities, and improve float days.
• New / Renegotiated Deals: Deliver a target number of new partner onboardings and volume-based renegotiations each year that improve commercials.
• Compliance & Documentation: Maintain 100% compliant and fully documented banking arrangements with zero regulatory or documentation lapses.
Required Qualifications:
Education
• Bachelor's degree in Commerce, Finance, or Business Administration.
• MBA in Finance or equivalent post-graduate qualification preferred.
Mandatory Banking Background
• 8+ years of experience in banking, payments, or cards, with a strong, demonstrable track record in
commercial negotiation and relationship management.
• Direct experience within a bank, payment gateway, card network, or fintech — for example in
corporate / transaction banking, merchant acquiring, cards, or relationship management — is
mandatory.
• Proven experience negotiating MDR, corporate card programs, payment gateway / POS
commercials, forex spreads, and credit facilities.
Domain Knowledge
• Deep understanding of how banks and payment providers price cards, MDR / interchange,
transaction banking, forex, and credit — i.e. knowing where the real negotiating room sits.
• Strong working knowledge of the payments ecosystem: issuers, acquirers, networks (Visa /
Mastercard / RuPay / UPI), aggregators, and settlement mechanics.
• Familiarity with RBI guidelines, FEMA (cross-border / forex), and PCI-DSS principles relevant to
payments.
Technical Skills:
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and commercial modeling — able to build clear cost-benefit and like-for-
like commercial comparisons.
• Comfort with corporate / net-banking portals, card-management platforms, and payment-gateway
/ POS dashboards.
Preferred Qualifications
• Exposure to the travel, e-commerce, or other high-volume transaction industries.
• An existing network of relationships with major banks and payment providers in India.
• Experience with cross-border / multi-currency payments, directly relevant to DMC operations.
• Experience with corporate card and expense / spend-management platforms.
• Prior experience working with internal audit and implementing commercial controls and documentation frameworks.
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