Business Travel Consultant II

Navan Labs; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Navan Bangalore is seeking a Customer Support Specialist to directly assist travelers across chat, phone, and email channels, ensuring quick, accurate travel bookings and adherence to SLA. You will maintain extensive supplier and system knowledge and help users with Navan self-service features on the platform.

In this role you will collaborate with internal teams to remove barriers for travelers, provide feedback on product changes, and stay up to date with industry updates.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in TMC/BT Consultant role covering air, rail and hotel.
• 2+ years of GDS experience (Sabre, Amadeus, Galileo) to intermediate level.
• IATA accreditation.
• Customer service experience in a contact center or customer-facing role.
• Tech savvy with Gmail, Zendesk, Slack and Salesforce.

Responsibilities

• Assist travellers with travel support across chat, call and email.
• Maintain extensive supplier, destination and system knowledge.
• Analyze customer needs, urgency and persona quickly.
• Provide accurate information for hotel, flight, car and rail bookings.
• Support users with self-service of Navan platform and app.
• Respond to customers within SLA expectations.
• Follow travel and expense procedures and compliance.
• Provide feedback to stakeholders on process performance.
• Participate in team meetings about product launches and updates.
• Build travel industry knowledge to set the standard for support.
• Adhere to attendance and complete training.
• Meet individual performance metrics aligned with business objectives.

Skills

TMC/BT experience

GDS experience

Customer service

Tech savvy

Communication skills

Tools

Gmail

Zendesk

Slack

Salesforce

Job description

At Navan, our mission is to power the in-person connections that move people, ideas and businesses forward. We help our travelers focus on being there, not getting there and our Global Operations and Service team is central to this mission!

As a member of our quickly growing Global Operations and Service team, you will be responsible for directly supporting our users travel needs. As owners of customer satisfaction, your role is to solve issues, communicate effectively, and collaborate with internal teams to remove any barriers for the traveler – all while providing a best‑in‑class customer experience. As the front line of our business, you will have a unique opportunity to provide regular feedback to our product, design and engineering teams as they work towards continually improving our customer facing and internal platforms. This is an exciting role where you will have a direct impact on our day to day operations, traveler experience and product development!

Location: Bangalore, India

Shifts: 5 days a week from office on rotational basis

What You'll Do:

• Assist our travellers with best-in-class travel support through multiple contact channels: chat, call and email.
• Maintain extensive supplier, destination and system knowledge.
• Make quick and accurate analyses of customer needs, persona and level of urgency.
• Provide accurate information for hotel, flight, car and rail bookings, as required
• Support users with self-service of the Navan platform and app where possible.
• Respond to customers within SLA expectations and requirements.
• Follow company and customer travel and expense procedures and policies in addition to global compliance procedures.
• Provide regular feedback to stakeholders on the progress of goals and performance of key operating processes.
• Participate in team meetings to stay up to date with new product launches, supplier updates, and industry changes.
• Build upon your travel industry knowledge to continue to set the standard for best-in-class travel support.
• Adhere to attendance policy and complete all assigned training.
• Meet individual performance metrics in support of the organization and company business objectives.

What Were Looking For:

• 3+ years of experience in TMC/BT Consultant Role covering all supplier products i.e air, rail and hotel
• 2+ years of GDS experience (Sabre, Amadeus, Galileo) to intermediate level - MANDATORY REQUIREMENT
• IATA accreditation (WWAFT/WAII/BA2)
• Customer Service experience within a contact center or customer facing role.
• Tech Savvy - not an expert but will be confident in Gmail, Zendesk, Slack and Salesforce as well as our internal travel customer service platform.
• Reliable and flexible with an openness to working non-traditional shifts (early mornings, late evenings and weekends), as we scale our support organization
• Ability to multitask with a desire to resolve urgent matters as quickly and efficiently as possible.
• An empathetic disposition with the ability to maintain a professional attitude at all times
• An independent thinker who is able to use available resources to troubleshoot issues and resolve customer inquiries.
• A skilled communicator with excellent verbal and written communication
• A team player who thrives in collaborating, giving and receiving feedback and lifting others up
• An interest in travel with a basic understanding of world geography