Maria Ross

Angestellt, Team Leader Sales, Hear.com
Cape Town, South Africa

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

Team leadership
Team Management
Travel Management
Sustainable tourism
leisure travel
Travel Planning
Customer Service Excellence
Time Management
southern africa
Corporate Social Responsibility
Leadership
Teamleitung
Sales Management
Head of sales

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Maria Ross

  • Current 4 years and 8 months, since Oct 2021

    Team Leader Sales

    Hear.com

  • Current 5 years and 1 month, since May 2021

    Senior Customer Care Consultant

    Hear.com

    Focus * Provide our patients with detailed phone consultations and give advice for hearing loss and hearing aids * Develop individual solutions based on the requirements of the customer * Sales Pipeline management

  • Current 6 years and 2 months, since Apr 2020

    Founder

    Ubuntu Beanies

    Ubuntu.beanies is a non-profit project which aims to raise funds for community development projects in the Townships of Cape Town, South Africa. Until today, this project raised over ZAR 70.000. All proceeds from sales of handknitted beanies are directly forwarded to a local feeding scheme & a local community development project or go back into further beanie production.

  • 3 months, Mar 2021 - May 2021

    Team Leader Sales Leisure Travel - South Africa & Namibia

    Terra Nova Tours

    (Staff responsibility 5+ employees) * Coordinating the workflow, delegation of tasks & development and motivation of tailor-made inbound leisure travel sales team. * Assisting COO and Directors with establishing sales & turnover figures * Work closely with heads of other departments (Marketing, Product & Accounts) to improve workflows, structures, processes and procedures * Supporting Sales & Marketing by keeping a close contact with African Specialist Agencies based in German speaking European countries

  • 4 years, Apr 2017 - Mar 2021

    Team Leader Sales Leisure Travel - South Africa

    Terra Nova Tours

    (Staff responsibility 5+ employees) * Coordinating the workflow, delegation of tasks & development and motivation of tailor-made inbound leisure travel sales team * Assisting COO and Directors with establishing sales & turnover figures * Work closely with heads of other departments (Marketing, Product & Accounts) to improve workflows, structures, processes and procedures * Supporting Sales & Marketing by keeping a close contact with African Specialist Agencies based in German speaking European countries

  • 1 year and 10 months, Jul 2015 - Apr 2017

    Senior Sales Consultant

    Terra Nova Tours

    Focus: * Planning and sale of self-drive or private guided tailor-made Tours in South Africa to African Specialist Agencies based in German speaking European countries. * Preparation of quotes, tour routings, costings and tailor-made detailed itineraries and final client travel documents. * handling of post tour admin and complaint management

  • 3 years and 1 month, Jul 2012 - Jul 2015

    Intermediate Sales Consultant

    Jenman African Safaris

    Focus: * Planning, calculation and Sale of tailor-made self-drive or private guided Tours in Southern Africa (South Africa, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Madagascar) to direct clients and agencies from mostly UK, Netherlands, Skandinavia, Germany, Australia, Canada

  • 11 months, Aug 2011 - Jun 2012

    Product Manager Southern Africa

    AT Reisen

    Sale of Tours to South Africa, Namibia & Botwana to direct clients; customer service & consultation

Ausbildung von Maria Ross

  • 6 months, Jul 2010 - Dec 2010

    Lodge & Wildlife Management

    Stenden University South Africa

  • 2008 - 2012

    Tourism Management

    Stenden University of Applied Science, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

    Modules: economics, business management, Destination and Tourism marketing, business english, project management, sustainable tourism, strategic management, book keeping, human resource management, Tourism Research, information technology, intercultural tourism management, office communication, business tourism, MICE Industry.

Sprachen

  • English

    C1 (Fließend)

  • German

    C2 (Verhandlungssicher / Muttersprachlich)

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