Product Data Administrator

The Company
Blue Skies Lifestyle is a family-run online luxury travel agency encompassing 4 brands. Ski In Luxury is our largest brand, and renowned worldwide for being one of the best luxury ski chalet travel agencies. Our other brands are ‘Ultimate Luxury Chalets’, a collection of the top 100 ski chalet rentals across Europe, ‘Alps In Luxury’ featuring summer chalet rentals in the Alps, and ‘Villas In Luxury’ our summer villa holiday portfolio. Our incredible team all share a passion for the mountains and luxury travel. Whether we’re delivering first-class service to clients, developing our portfolio, writing about our favourite resorts, or experiencing the properties ourselves, the variety in the role ensures no day is the same!

The Role
We are looking for an enthusiastic and reliable individual who is keen to develop their skill set and make a significant contribution in their workplace. The Product Data Administrator will join our sociable, dynamic team and provide administrative support on our luxury ski chalet, mountain and villa holiday websites. If you are accurate, pay good attention to detail, efficient, organised and logical, then we would love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities
As a Product Data Administrator your role will consist of, but is not limited to:

• Create original property marketing content for websites which is descriptive, informative, and inspirational and also includes an SEO focus.
• Regularly update and maintain property pages product marketing materials to ensure accuracy and improve webpage performance.
• Provide essential maintenance to the property pages on our websites including amends to content, prices, images, availability, etc.
• Routine availability and pricing updates to ensure the calendars on our property pages are as up-to-date as possible.
• General maintenance of focus webpages, ensuring information and marketing imagery is accurate and inspiring.
• Communicate with our partners (property owners & operators) to maintain successful partnerships, resolving queries on property listings/content/images etc.
• Liaise and work closely with the marketing team, specifically to update blogs or write original blog content.
• Photo/image storing, sizing, cropping and enhancing for use on our websites and in digital material.
• Provide the sales team with relevant news and updates from Product or external partners to enable us to sell properties with confidence.
• Keep an accurate and up-to-date report of all updates and maintenance duties, creating reports/spreadsheets for key projects when required.
• Adopt a right first-time approach, ensuring accuracy of all data entered on the system.
• Promote the company and always maintain excellent working relationships with partners, suppliers and colleagues.

The Perfect Candidate

The key skills and qualities of a Product Data Administrator are…

Essential

• Minimum of GCSE in English and Maths (Level 5)
• Experience using MS Office, WordPress & Project Management tools
• Excellent organisation skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Confident in working independently and as part of a team
• Attention to detail
• Able to solve problems
• Creative thinker and analytical mind
• Able to show initiative and be proactive

Desirable

• Previous experience in data entry and/or within a travel company
• To have a basic understanding of SEO

Recruitment Process

If your application is successful, you will be invited to a short telephone screening call with a member of our HR team. This is an informal conversation to find out a little more about you and your expectations ahead of potentially moving on to a formal interview. The next stage will be to complete a short task creating a property description in your own time (to elaborate). If you are invited to a face to face interview, this will be carried out at our Bournemouth office. Interviews are conducted with the line manager and directors for this role.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From £25,500.00 per year

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Bournemouth BH8 9RL: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• Do you have personal ski holiday experience? Please give us some detail of resorts you have visited and know well, how long you've been skiing, and why you love it!
• How well travelled do you consider yourself? Can you tell us about your travel experience or a personal favourite trip?

Education:

• GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person