We’re hiring! Haven in Paris, our boutique vacation rental business with properties in Paris, London, Provence and Tuscany, is in need of fresh talent! We’re looking for someone who is just as obsessed with gorgeous vacation properties, hospitality, and making travel dreams come true as we are. Read on for the job description. If you think you’d be a good fit, send your cover letter and resume to careers@haveninparis.com.
Carin Olsson
Haven in Paris is a boutique, vacation rental agency with over 20 years of experience in the tourist industry in Paris, France and Italy.
We’re looking for a smart, self-motivated and customer-oriented Sales & Service Specialist to join our boutique apartment rental team, handling sales inquiries and ensuring the client rental experience is smooth and stress-free.
The ideal candidate must be energetic, creative, resourceful, and must enjoy working in a highly entrepreneurial, highly fluid environment. The position requires excellent sales, writing, editing, communication and organization skills, as well as a gift for developing professional relationships online.
The candidate must be able to work independently to keep up with our fast-paced environment and be willing to put in the hours (including weekends) needed to book rentals in our properties. The candidate will ideally be located in Maine and a U.S. resident, but have the ability to travel for training and on an as-needed basis. We will also accept applications from candidates located on the East Coast. This is a full-time, work-from-home position.
Responsibilities:
- Respond to and monitor sales inquiries submitted to our site, with the goal of achieving full occupancy for our roster of vacation apartments and villas.
- Remain on top of all inquiries, following up in a timely manner in order to book rentals, using creative ways to balance and prioritize the volume of inquiries.
- Handle the response and booking process to customers’ inquiries in conjunction with our current team, but sometimes working entirely independently.
- Answer questions and solve issues from property owners, service professionals and our apartment rental clients in a timely manner.
The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and experience:
- Experience in e-mail communications in an online customer service or sales environment.
- Excellent oral communication skills
- Excellent writing skills.
- Amazing ability to prioritize and juggle tasks based on value to business at any given time.
- Strong familiarity with much of Paris, the major sites and the neighborhoods.
- Must be able to write and speak French at a conversational level.
- Ability to approach problematic situations with common sense and calm.
- Ability to learn Internet-based tools quickly.
- Accounting skills useful.
- All applicants must be able to legally live and work in the U.S.
- Maine resident preferred; East Coast applicants accepted
- Schedule flexibility is key, as this position will include weekends.
If you have experience in the following areas, please also include these skills in your application:
- Project management experience
- Marketing and branding experience
- Editorial experience
To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to careers@haveninparis.com.
Please note: We are, unfortunately, only able to reply to candidates that we are actively pursuing.
Interesting post! Thanks for sharing it. love to read that!!
Great opportunity! I’ll be forwarding my resume and cover letter shortly.
I will be sending my résumé over this evening.
I have sent you an email
Hi everyone – thank you for your feedback! Robin – the email is up and working now. I apologize for that! We did receive your application, however.
Please note the above email address is not working correctly. As with your other applicant (who wrote you a message on FB), I mailed my credentials to the secondary email address. Thank you.
I live on the west coast and I would love to be a part of this team I’ve been in property management and I know I have what it would take is it possible to work from the west coast my name is Jeanmy email is jeborquez53@Gmail.com
This would be the perfect job! I wish I lived on the East Coast.
Oh this sounds wonderful! I will be sending my information to you and I commented on your FB post a little while ago about the position.
This sounds like my dream job.
What a dream job.
I follow you all routinely; your images are just exquisite. I will be using your services when my youngest leaves the nest, and leaves me some $ – I read French proficiently – speak less so these days, but a girl can dream.
If I run across a candidate…
All the best!
LL