Latin America Product Executive - Maternity cover - £27k pro rata

Job Title - Latin America Product Executive - Maternity cover

Department/Sector - Travel

Job Location - London

Salary - £27k pro rata

Our client is recruiting a temporary Product Support Executive to join the luxury Product Development Team.

The role includes researching, costing and writing up material for the company website that is not featured in the brochure.

This material will take the form of travel ideas, including itineraries, and also destination information regarding subjects such as history, culture, cuisine, climate and festivals.

Your aim is to create greater depth of content on the website, particularly the 'tailor-made' section, which in turn will make it more fulfilling for the holiday maker.

You will also assist the Product Managers with research and reports, planning and costing tours, and general assistance.

Another part of the role is to research projects as instructed by the Product Manager for new products.

This may involve competitor, market and price analysis, sourcing potential suppliers, and health and safety analysis.

You must have experience of planning and costing tours.

Key Skills/Experience Needed:

• Organised and methodical
• Educated to at least A Level standard
• Experience in planning and costing itineraries
• Minimum of two years' experience in this field.
• A mature attitude to work
• Work under own initiative
• Good writing skills
• Attention to detail
• A proven ability to liaise with external suppliers and organizations
• Computer literate
• Thorough knowledge of Excel and Word
• Good knowledge of Latin America
• Extensive travel experience in the area is required.