Job responsibilities
- Fulfill travel booking requests, ensuring all details align with client preferences and company travel policies, using your experience with travel management technology tools
- Address and resolve complex travel-related issues promptly, applying your understanding of client needs and your ability to select the most appropriate solution in a time-sensitive manner
- Maintain professional relationships with clients, using your developing skills in external client/customer relationship management to anticipate their needs and exceed their expectations
- Coordinate with vendors to ensure all travel arrangements meet client requirements, demonstrating your attention to detail and commitment to service delivery
- Continuously update your knowledge of current industry practices and regulations, as well as product definitions and operating procedures, to ensure the highest level of service
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Minimum of 5 years of experience with a focus on cruises bookings
- Experience arranging domestic and international travel for clients
- High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent
- Demonstrated ability to manage external client/customer relationships, with experience in identifying and anticipating client needs to propel outcomes
- Experience in resolving travel-related issues, with a focus on selecting the most appropriate solution quickly and efficiently
- Proven analytical thinker, with the ability to break down complex travel requirements into manageable tasks
- Demonstrated attention to detail, with a commitment to surpassing quality and quantity expectations in service delivery
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Expertise in sales, customer service, multi-tasking, and advanced recordkeeping and mathematical skills
- Current experience of domestic and international cities, and travel destinations, including expertise of cruise, hotel, car, resort, and other vendors as they pertain to travel
- Advanced ability utilizing modern telephones and telephone functions, specifically voice over IP telephones
- Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Windows operating system. Novice proficiency with Microsoft Office programs including Outlook, Word, and Excel