Careers

 

Join the Team

Join our team, and your job is more than a salary.

You satisfy your love of travel, create lifelong memories for customers, and learn about the history and heritage of the UK & Europe.

And because we believe in inspiring passionate employees, we share up to 20% of the company’s profit and offer plenty of opportunities for adventures, fun, and career development.

Our current vacancies will be advertised on this page, so please check it out regularly. Every application you make is treated equally and respected for individuality and diversity.

 

About us

Rabbie's operate one of the largest selection of scheduled tours in the UK and Ireland with a vision to make the world a better place through travel. 

We’re an open, friendly, positive and welcoming group of people. We like to ‘live life’ and explore places that have stories to tell. We’re renowned for delivering exceptional customer experiences because of how we look after our guests, each other, and the communities and the environments we travel through.

 

 

Benefits

  • Discounted or free staff tours (dependent on availability) 
  • Family and friends discounted travel  
  • Family friendly policies  
  • Flexible/Hybrid working options where appropriate  
  • Bonus scheme
  • Training budget
  • Cross Company Working Opportunities
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Paid volunteer days 
  • Rabbie's sick pay
  • Accident Insurance / Death in Service cover
  • Paid compassionate/bereavement leave
  • Staff conference/Social & parties
  • Discounted garage MOT/repairs
  • Long service reward

 

Private Tours Consultant

 

Job title: Private Tours Consultant

Type: Permanent, Full-Time, 5 days over 7, including weekends

Team: Private Tours

Reports to: Private Tours Sales Assistant Manager

Applications close: Fri 12 April

 

Picture this: An office with a view of Arthur’s Seat out one window and Edinburgh Castle the other. Your job? Helping our customers book their dream holidays. Every day, a new adventure. Rabbie’s is looking for a travel-minded, Tour Consultant to be part of our Private Tours team. Join us to make our private tours an unforgettable experience.

 

Who are Rabbie's? 

Rabbie’s small group tours are driven by curiosity and guided by storytellers.

For more than 30 years our mini-coaches have taken people across the UK and Europe on small group tours, finding stories that go deeper and live longer in travelers’ minds. No track too small, too trodden, or too obscure.

 

Why you’ll love working with us:

On our journeys, everyone’s hungry for the little-known or just-happened, and you feel it on our team. Not satisfied by tick lists, we chase ‘what ifs’ and ‘whys’, and collect stories as we go. Connecting people and protecting places we love. Together, we move travel forward.

 

Your role:

Rabbie’s is looking for an enthusiastic Tour Consultant to join the team. Working as part of our sales team you'll be helping Rabbie’s to continue to develop and produce experiences that last a lifetime.

 

Your responsibilities:

  • Answering private tour enquiries
  • Research, design and price tailor made itineraries and packages
  • Process private tour bookings
  • Source suppliers
  • Assist with meeting team KPIs and sales targets
  • Assist with creation and maintenance of databases
  • Represent the company at site inspections and networking events as required

 

Your skills, experience & qualifications:

Essential:

●    Positive and professional customer service skills.
●    Work well independently and within a team.
●    Flexibility and adaptability.
●    Excellent PC skills, including Outlook and Microsoft Office Suite.
●    Attention to detail and a willingness to learn.
●    Ability to multi- task, prioritise and self-manage work load 
●    A real passion for travel/ tourism and s good geographic knowledge of the UK and Ireland 

Desirable:

●    Experience in a similar role 
●    Experience in the tourism, hospitality or customer service industry. 
 

Where will this role take you?

Your story grows alongside Rabbie’s. We’re here to help you understand where you want to go and give you the tools and support to get there – whether it’s exploring passions, following ideas or honing skills that will take you far at Rabbie’s and beyond.

  

What you’ll get in return

Salary: £26,620
Pension: Employer-contributed pension  
Annual Leave: 30 days (including bank holidays). Increasing with length of service. 
Benefits, rewards & opportunities: 

●    Discounted or free staff tours (dependent on availability) 
●    Family and friends discounted travel  
●    Family-friendly policies  
●    Flexible/hybrid working options where appropriate  
●    Bonus scheme
●    Learning & development budget
●    Cross-company opportunities
●    Cycle-to-work scheme
●    Paid volunteer days
●    Rabbie’s sick pay
●    Accident insurance / death-in-service cover
●    Paid compassionate/ bereavement leave
●    Staff conference/ social; parties
●    Discounted garage MOT/ repairs
●    Long-service reward
 

Every story matters

The more perspectives we see, the more we understand, the more we all grow. Rabbie’s is a diverse, dynamic working environment committed to recruiting, training, compensating and promoting employees on merit. We actively encourage applications from all walks of life, no matter your gender, age, race, belief, sexual orientation, disability, medical history or parental status.

 

Interested? Apply now

Fill out the application form and email to louise.jamieson@rabbies.com using the subject line ‘Private Tour Consultant Application’. We look forward to hearing from you.

Applications close Fri 12 April


 

Driver Guides

 

Our main office is in Edinburgh but we are recruiting for Driver Guides to conduct tours at the following locations: Edinburgh, Inverness, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Manchester, London, and Bristol.

 

Who are Rabbie's? 

Founded in 1993, we are an award-winning travel company offering tours a wide variety of tours around the UK, Ireland and Europe.  

We deliver small group tours of 16 passengers or less in our fleet of luxury Mercedes mini coaches.  

We are recruiting now! 

 

What do we look for in our Driver Guides? 

  • Are you outgoing, enthusiastic and passionate about meeting people and showing them the best that the UK has to offer?  
  • If you have a good knowledge of Scotland, its history and are passionate about sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm with people from all over the world, then this could be the role for you 
  • You will drive, lead and guide small group mini-coach tours throughout Scotland and Northern England and consistently deliver a memorable and enriching experience that will last our customers a lifetime 
  • You will be talking about the history, geography, culture and traditions of the places you take your passengers - every day brings something different 
  • Skilled and experienced drivers who love being on the road. Mini-Bus licence is not essential on application - all training provided for successful applicants 

 

Essential skills

  • Driving experience – mini-coach driver training provided  
  • High standards of customer service 
  • Use your own initiative and problem-solving skills to provide a seamless service to passengers 
  • An ability to communicate your knowledge and entertain people from all over the world 

 

What you will be doing  

  • Drive top of the range mini-coaches with due care and attention at all times for the comfort and safety of passengers (training provided) 
  • Demonstrate an appetite and enthusiasm for learning 
  • Complete daily vehicle safety checks and legal documentation (training provided) 
  • Embrace our environmental and sustainable tourism practices 
  • Provide constructive feedback to continuously improve the quality of the tours 
  • Display a pride and passion for the country and what it has to offer 
  • Continually develop a wide-ranging cultural, historical and social knowledge 

  

Requirements

  • In order to work as a Driver-Guide you must have a current UK car driving license  
  • A category D or D1 class driving license would be great, but not essential as all training will be provided 

 

Job Type  

  • Full-time and part time positions available – from one day per week to full time 
  • Permanent contracts 
  • Salary: £26-32K + plus a range of benefits 
  • Single day tours and overnight tours available to suit - or a mixture of both! 

  

Current Benefits 

  • Discounted or free staff tours (dependent on availability)  
  • Family and friends discounted travel 
  • Family friendly policies 
  • Flexible/Hybrid working options where appropriate 
  • Bonus scheme 
  • Training Budget  
  • Cross company working opportunities 
  • Cycle to work scheme 
  • Paid volunteer days  
  • Rabbie's paid sick pay  
  • Paid compassionate leave 
  • Staff Social & events 
  • Discounted garage MOT/repairs (Edinburgh garage) 
  • Long service reward 

 

Driver Guide specific Benefits  

  • On-site parking at depot 
  • Driver CPC paid training 
  • Driver medical renewal costs covered  
  • Commissions  

  

If you're interested, please fill out the application form and email to jobs@rabbies.com

Please use the subject line ‘Driver Guide application’.