Afterhours Senior Travel Consultant
United States - Virtual Location
Full Time Senior-level / Expert USD 66K+
American Express Global Business Travel
Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.
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Overview of Role:
The Senior Travel Consultant role at Amex GBT Egencia is to deliver exceptional travel service experience for our Corporate and Business Travel Customers. By working together as a successful team, who are specialized with in depth knowledge, our Travel Consultants provide exceptional traveler care, first call resolution and the highest quality of customer service to Amex GBT Egencia corporate clients.
It is a high touch service environment, where you will have true accountability for the service relationship and customer experience, by providing creative and timely travel solutions, using available tools and technology as needed, while increasing supplier revenue.
What You’ll Do on a Typical Day
- Afterhours is a Department that is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This includes holidays and weekends.
- Candidate must be willing to work any shift in a 24-hour day. Most common shifts are between 6:00 PM - 6:00 AM Pacific Time and include working Weekends and Holidays.
- Afterhours supports both US and Canada calls. TICO Certification is a requirement. If, at time of hire, you are not TICO Certified you would allowed to study and will be given 3 attempts to Pass the TICO Certification. Failure to pass in 3 attempts could result in Termination of employment from the company.
- Act as Travel Advisor and Consultant to a single or multiple Corporate Business and accounts with the willingness to jump in and flexibility in shifts to meet client needs
- Act as the point of sale on all Domestic & International travel requirements, arranging both routine and sophisticated travel for air, rail, car, and Hotel accommodation, using Sabre and Amadeus.
- Provide consultative advice, solutions and recommendations. Additionally, pro-actively selling additional service for our travelers (e.g. Hotel and Car/Car Service), whilst ensuring adherence to the customers agreed travel policy and requirements
- Following all legal standard requirements, which include required training, compliance and sanctions
- Deliver expectations on individual/shared team goals and support all business Key Performance Indicators. Proactively review your metrics to check on and improve performance
- Follow internal compliance and regulatory requirements for all customers and locations supported
- Handle the end-to-end booking process through the ticketing and order fulfillment, either over the telephone, via messaging or via email or back-office systems and servicing platforms.
What We’re Looking For
- In depth knowledge of:
- International air, hotel, car, and rail booking
- High touch customer service
- High proficiency in GDS Sabre
- 5+ years business travel proven experience.
- Experience Microsoft Office
- Detailed understanding of travel trends and industry standard processes fares and ticketing rules - domestic and international land, air, and sea travel.
- Excellent influencing communication skills – written and verbal.
- Passion for Excellence in Customer Service with attention to detail.
- Problem Solving, with a process improvement approach.
- Ability to multi-task and act with a sense of urgency.
- Background in Business Travel, leisure or airline reservation required.
- Ability to assist and coach customers on the online booking tool
All applicants will be subjected to pass pre-hire assessments to measure computer/technical skills & travel industry knowledge
Location
United States - Virtual Location
The US national hourly wage range for this position is from $17.00 to $33.00 per hour. The national range provided includes the hourly wage that Egencia expects to pay for the role. Actual hourly rate will be based on factors including the scope and complexity of the role and the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, knowledge, and work location.
This role is eligible for an annual Performance Based Incentive, which rewards participants based on company performance. For information about our comprehensive US benefits programs and eligibility, please review our Benefits-at-a-Glance document.
The #TeamGBT Experience
Work and life: Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.
Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and more.
Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.
Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with global tuition assistance, access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.
We strive to champion Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in every aspect of our business at GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global Inclusion Groups, centered around common identities or initiatives, to discuss challenges, obstacles, achievements, and drive company awareness and action.
Wellbeing resources to support mental and emotional health for you and your immediate family.
And much more!
This role is for Egencia LLC (“Egencia” or the “Company”), a member of the American Express Global Business Travel family of companies.
All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age, gender identity (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, disability, veteran status, citizenship or marital status. It is our policy to maintain an equal-opportunity environment free from intimidation, harassment or bias for our candidates, colleagues, clients and suppliers.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. Please, let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the hiring process. For more details, please consult GBT Recruitment Privacy Statement.
What if I don’t meet every requirement? If you’re passionate about our mission and believe you’d be a phenomenal addition to our team, don’t worry about “checking every box;" please apply anyway. You may be exactly the person we’re looking for!
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