Senior Quality Officer

Etihad Airways; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Etihad Airways seeks a QA leader to define, implement and manage the Quality Assurance program for in-house and outsourced Guest Relations and Baggage Claims. As the Etihad POC for vendor errors, you will manage disputes while providing insights into improvements to reduce error inflow and strengthen overall quality.

You will lead calibration with vendors, present analyses to senior leadership, and ensure a data-driven approach to monitoring performance and business impact.

Qualifications

• University graduate
• 5+ year experience in contact centre & email handling in travel industry
• Experience in customer service
• Six Sigma Green Belt (Black Belt is an advantage)
• COPC implementation leader is an advantage

Responsibilities

• Lead calibration sessions with the vendor for email transactions and report outputs, minutes, and monitoring guidelines updates.
• Provide insights into quality improvements to reduce errors and strengthen overall QA.
• Ensure in-house and vendor QA programs support business goals and present customer experience analyses to leadership.
• Own reporting on process improvements and hold teams accountable on opportunities.
• Identify root causes and perform spot checks to detect revenue leakage and improve performance.
• Monitor vendor and in-house performance through data collection and statistics to drive a scorecard.
• Develop monitoring guidelines for all email transactions and advise on performance improvements.
• Create compliance reports and other management requests to meet business requirements

Education

University graduate

Six Sigma Green Belt

COPC implementation leader

Job description

An exciting opportunity to define, implement and manage the Quality Assurance program for in-house & outsourced Guest Relations & Baggage Claims. As the Etihad Point of Contact (POC) for vendor errors, you will manage the dispute process while providing insights into technical improvements necessary to reduce the inflow of errors and strengthen overall quality.This role is ideal for someone who combines strong contact centre QA expertise with analytical thinking and continuous improvement experience and is confident engaging vendors, operational stakeholders and senior leadership.

Accountabilities

• Lead the calibration session with the vendor for e-mail transactions along with recording and reporting calibration primary outputs, minutes, and required monitoring guidelines updates.
• Ensure that the quality framework is supportive of Etihad goals and support customer experience as well as present customer experience analysis during monthly team meetings and provide inputs and insights for Etihad senior leadership as well
• Ensure the inhouse & vendor quality organization are providing business intelligence supporting performance enhancement
• Own reporting the process level improvement opportunity to the organization and hold the vendor & inhouse teams accountable on officer level opportunity
• Following QA Process to identify Officer-controllable & uncontrollable root cause and Performs spot check activities to detect and prevent revenue loss
• Ensure the vendor provides analysis to evaluate the outlier and behaviour data in a highly actionable and coaching format as well as run spot check
• Monitor performance by gathering relevant data and producing statistical reports and manage a healthy program performance scorecard based on annual strategic plan
• Develop Monitoring Guidelines for all e-mail transactions, present suggestions for group and individual performance improvements
• Build and maintain compliance reports requested by Management and other reports to meet business requirements

Qualifications

Education & Experience

• University graduate
• 5+ year experience in contact centre & e-mail handling in travel industry
• Experience in customer service
• Six Sigma Green Belt (Black Belt is an advantage)
• COPC implementation leader is an advantage

Additional Information

Why this opportunity stands out?

This is more than a traditional QA monitoring role. It offers the opportunity to influence quality across multiple operations, turn performance data into actionable insights, partner with vendors, drive continuous improvement and provide insights that reach senior leadership.

For an experienced QA professional who wants broader ownership and the opportunity to influence both operational performance and guest experience, this is a role where your expertise can make a real difference.

Etihad Airways is more than the UAE’s national airline - we’re shaping the future of global aviation. From our hub in Abu Dhabi, we connect people across continents and cultures, while driving our "Journey 2030" ambition to double our fleet, expand our network and grow our people for a new era of excellence. Join us and become part of a vision where the world is your workplace and extraordinary experiences take flight.