TRAVEL CONSULTANT - Jobs in United Arab Emirates, Dubai

Job Description

Job PurposeThe jobholder is a front-line staff member and a part of a 24/7 team who has to provide clients and potential clients superior and a consistent quality of travel services. To sell Airline tickets, travel related products and give travel related information. Proactively service our customers via various channels (retail, phone, WhatsApp, email), supporting them with queries, amendments, pro-active disruption management and travel bookings. Convert maximum number of enquiries into sales through efficient and friendly customer service.Job Outline:Generic- Provide the highest standard of customer service to all clients whether Retail, Government or Corporate, using all tools that are made available. Attend all customer queries in a timely and appropriate manner.- Build valuable relationships with your customers & suppliers, ensuring your tone of voice, language and contact are in line with our brand guidelines and ensure a positive result for our clients.- Offer products, services, and loyalty programmes that are contracted by dnata Travel and offer information on destination and product to all customers to ensure that it meets their travel requirements.- Maximise the sales/consultation opportunity to cross sell/upsell any relevant auxiliary product to maximize revenue. Drive additional ancillary revenue through the sale of tours, excursions and activities.- Inform customers about mandatory requirements covering their journey such as passport, visa, health and Insurance requirements as well as other details such as check-in place and time.- Maintain excellent working relationships with clients to update them on new products and services while at the same time work towards constantly improving working relationships.- Listen to our customers carefully, understanding their exact needs and requirements, wow them through our surprise and delight service. Put things right when things go wrong, ensuring that our customers leave with only a positive experience of us.- Ensure that all forms of contact are handled quickly and with a friendly `can-do attitude, whilst achieving and exceeding service & sales performance targets against key performance indicators.- Adhere to all of the set standards of our customer feedback program, and any internal audit standards to ensure that we comply with the expected benchmark defined by the customer audit team.SPECIFIC JOB ACCOUNTABILITIESIn Resort Service & Guest Experience Centre- Provide award winning service on holiday for our customers, primarily face to face, but also over the phone, via SMS & WhatsApp and through our new App Chat functionality.- Work with our airlines Network Control and Reservation Services team, Destination Management Companies and hotels around the world. Monitor the network and ensure Emirates Holidays customers are proactively supported and looked after.- Play an instrumental role within the `Crisis incident team, in the event of Force Majeure, crisis or cancellation situations during the holiday experience.Qualifications & ExperienceCommercial/Sales. Reservations/Ticketing : 1+ Year12 Years schooling or equivalent :Experience in commercial/Sales/Reservations/Ticketing/ Travel & Tourism/ Customer Service.Knowledge/skills: - Someone who really understands the importance of exceptional customer experiences and exceeding our customersExpectations. -- A confident communicator with proven persuasive and influencing skills.- Thrives on a busy service and sales environment and self-motivated to achieve performance & business targets.- Positive attitude and enjoys working as part of a team.- A flexible approach with the ability to adapt to different people, customers, challenges and ways of working.- Someone who wants to keep developing and able to take accountability for their own learning.- Ability to really listen to the customer, quickly identify their needs and think ahead to anticipate them.- Excellent attention to detail and understands the impact of errors on the business and customer.- IT literate and quick to learn.- Flexibility to work shifts, including evenings, weekends and public holidays.- Leadership Role : No- Safety Sensitive Role: NoSalary & BenefitsJoin us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotels stays around the world. You can find out more information about our employee benefits in the Working Here section of our website www.emirates.com/careers. Further information on whats it like to live and work in our cosmopolitan home city, can be found in the Dubai Lifestyle section.

Keyskills :
customer service Ticketing Reservations Travel Tourism Sales

About Company

the Emirates Group employs over 103,363 staff from more than 160 nationalities. The Emirates Group’s extensive and diverse international portfolio includes the world’s largest international airline, Emirates, and one of the largest combined air services provider in the world, dnata. For the year financial year ending 2017-18, the Emirates Group posted a profit of AED 4.1 billion (US$ 1.1 billion).