Manager, Corporate Travel

ALTOUR; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans

Dental plans

401k match

Travel discounts

Parental leave

Job summary

ALTOUR is seeking a Travel Team Leader to direct and coach a travel agent team, ensuring high levels of service and operational consistency. You will implement strategies to improve customer satisfaction, retention, and profitability while managing staffing, schedules, and performance metrics.

The ideal candidate has extensive travel industry experience, strong leadership skills, and proficiency with Sabre GDS.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years in travel industry.
• Strong leadership and coaching abilities.
• Proficient in Sabre GDS.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage schedules and payroll.

Responsibilities

• Direct leadership of travel agent team and provide coaching to optimize performance.
• Develop and implement strategic plans to drive customer service, efficiency and profitability.
• Monitor KPIs, attendance, scheduling, and staff development via one-on-one meetings and team sessions.
• Collaborate with Director of Service Delivery, Account Management, and other departments to ensure client program success.

Skills

Travel industry experience

Customer service excellence

Leadership & coaching

Communication skills

MS Office

Scheduling & workforce planning

Vendor & partner relations

Tools

Sabre GDS

Job description

Overview

At ALTOUR , we believe people are the driving force behind every meaningful connection - our clients’ and our own. With more than 1,000 team members and a presence in over 80 countries, we are a globally recognized leader in corporate travel management and a proud division of Internova Travel Group, the highest-ranking American corporate travel management company (Business Travel News).

Our mission is to manage the complexities of connecting people so they can represent their brands in the most impactful way possible. That same philosophy shapes our workplace culture, one that evolves, improves, and empowers our people to grow and thrive.

We embrace innovation and leading-edge technology to create smarter, faster, and more tailored solutions - not just for our clients, but for each other. At ALTOUR, you’ll be part of a collaborative, forward-thinking environment where your voice matters and your success is a shared journey.

Responsibilities

Direct leadership of travel agent team. Provides coaching and development to optimum performance using all tools available. Supports the development and implementation strategic plans to drive the highest levels of customer service combined with operational consistency & efficiencies. Support client satisfaction, retention and business profitability objectives as measured by key performance indicators and department goals.

People Leadership

• Provides day to day guidance to agent team within span of control
• Ability to identify team strengths/development opportunities, identify top talent
• Develops solid plans in place to plans in place to drive results
• Monitors success measurements frequently.
• Provides frequent and timely feedback through one on one interaction, team meetings, and other forms of communication for all direct reports
• Provides both positive and constructive feedback as required
• Completes HR interactions/functions as needed – including payroll functions.
• Clearly communicates the departmental vision and mission to all team members
• Works closely with Work Force Analyst to develop schedules, monitor attendance, align time for non-phone related work and coaching sessions

Quality, Expense Management and Productivity

• Works to mitigate expense due to quality errors
• Reviews customer service reports monthly, completes appropriate analysis of issues, and works to quickly identify trends or issues within area of responsibility.
• Supports service level management through attendance at daily huddles and planning session. Reviews any exception time off requests with Work Force Manager.
• Closely monitors use of overtime, works with Work Force Management Team to align on optimal schedules and staffing requirements to reduce the need for overtime expense
• Monitors all write offs and payouts, works closely with Director to create strategies to mitigate payout risks.
• Reviews agent productivity measures, offers suggestions and develops plans for process improvement as needed

Client Satisfaction

• Works closely with Director of Service Delivery and Account Management to support new and existing client programs.
• Acts as primary contact for day to day operational questions for internal and external clients
• Works closely with all ALTOUR internal departments to ensure client program success

Qualifications

• 5-7 years’ experience in the travel industry
• Ability to relate to and understand agent and supervisor roles
• 5-7 years’ customer service experience
• Ability to respond to high level escalated customer service issues.
• Ability to identify root cause, creating process improvement to have wider impact.
• Ability to interface with the Travel Manger and Account Managers and create meaningful internal and external partnerships.
• Proficient in designated Sabre GDS
• Strong knowledge of international travel
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Ability to present material to groups of various sizes
• Ability to craft compelling written and oral communication pieces for internal/external clients and staff
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Strong Microsoft office skills (word, excel)
• Ability to complete simple analysis
• Build/utilize simple spreadsheets/word documents

Leadership Abilities

• Has strong understanding of own skill set and development opportunities
• Self-starter, takes ownership for own work, consistently meets deadlines
• Comes prepared to meetings and participates appropriately
• Strong understanding of the organizational road map
• Develops strong relationships and partnerships with key departmental contacts
• Demonstrates strong change management skills, ability to understand and contribute to the formulation of strategic decisions and support them
• Demonstrates exceptional teamwork
• Proactively offers support when ability matches need/reaches out across teams and departments
• Shares best practices and ideas with peers and leaders
• Utilizes Reward-A-Leaders system to recognize others
• Consistently demonstrates mastery of the guiding principles in daily work habits
• Ability to provide constructive feedback to agents, peers, and leaders when appropriate
• Demonstrates high level decision making skills
• Solutions oriented
• Proactively anticipates potential issues and problems, takes steps to mitigate
• Thinks creatively to find best/appropriate solution to difficult problems
• Able to support peers in decision making
• Knows when to elevate to a leader
• Demonstrates strong conflict resolution skills

PAY AND BENEFITS

• Our benefit offerings include choice of two medical plans and two dental plans, vision insurance, flexible spending accounts (FSAs), company-paid life insurance and AD&D, optional additional life insurance and AD&D, disability insurance, paid parental leave, paid time off, 401k Plan with company match, discounted employee travel options, access to LinkedIn Learning webinars and courses.
• Discounted pet insurance and auto, home, & renters insurance.

The salary range on this job posting/advertising has been developed to give applicants a wide range to comply with pay transparency laws in all states and geographical areas. Many factors, such as years of experience, geographical location, budget etc. are considered when determining the starting rate of pay. The salary range posted represents the pay range for U.S. candidates. If the job posting indicates that the role is available for international candidate consideration, the salary range will be based on the local market for the country where the candidate would be working.

Internova Travel Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We make employment decisions without regard to age, race, religion, national origin, gender, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation and gender identity or any other protected class.