officer customer service

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Handle customer interactions across multiple channels—calls, chats, Whatsapp, emails, and social media—related to holiday packages, including travel advisory, inquiries, bookings, amendments, cancellations, and general support requests.
• Provide accurate and comprehensive information on destinations, packages, pricing, offers, and policies to assist customers in making informed booking decisions.
• Convert sales inquiries into confirmed bookings, contributing to revenue targets through effective upselling and cross-selling of relevant services.
• Manage post-booking changes such as date modifications, special requests, refunds, and travel documentation updates, ensuring all actions are accurate and in compliance to the policy.
• Revalidate and/or reissue e-tickets for existing bookings, apply ticketing regulations, calculate change fees/penalties accurately, collect and process payment with courtesy in a timely and efficient manner. Amend existing bookings and itineraries as required, calculate change fees and penalties accurately, collect and process payment with courtesy in a timely and efficient manner.
• Handle other airline tickets exchange requirements, in case of schedule change.
• Help in resolving last-minute issues as per the request of airports and local offices.
• Notify passengers with courtesy phone calls or emails to advise them of schedule change, flight delay, flight cancellation, flight downgrading, flight overbooking, equipment change and seat re-protection. Update bookings with remarks appropriately after providing customers with suitable alternatives and rebook them with onward connection in a timely and efficient manner.
• Ensure all email communications received are responded with appropriate solutions in a timely manner.
• Call back customers if call is dropped or customer didn't manage to get through.
• Properly handle upset customers with patience while aiming to provide the best image of the brand and its customer obsession.
• Communicate with concerned department within HDQ or other GF networks if required as a part of providing solutions.
• Provide feedback to supervisors related to system issues or improvement purposes by reporting any error faced in the systems.
• Ensure all the queues to issue/reissue/refund/schedule change and revalidation handled on timely and efficient manner.
• Address customer complaints and escalations with empathy and professionalism, collaborating with the manager and internal teams to ensure prompt and effective resolution.
• Cross sell and up sell all products and services offered by Gulf Air Holidays.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in CRM platforms in accordance with internal protocols and SLAs.
• Collaborate with internal departments and external partners (travel agents, hotels, ground handlers) to resolve issues and deliver seamless customer experience.
• Gather and relay customer feedback to the Customer Support Manager, helping to identify areas for improvement in service and offerings.
• Stay informed on the latest holiday products, policies, promotions, and system changes to deliver consistent and updated information to customers.
• Ensure strict compliance with SLAs, refund policies, safety standards, and relevant travel regulations.
• Participate in service recovery efforts, team meetings, training sessions, and process improvement initiatives led by the Customer Support Manager.
• Participate in regular team briefings and knowledge-sharing sessions to stay informed about current campaigns, procedures, and updates.
• Ensure adherence to company policies, grooming standards, and professional conduct when dealing with customers and colleagues.
• Assist the operations & fulfillment team, product development team, sales team with any special tasks/projects such as issuing booking and communication with suppliers, product loading, sales activation events, and others.
• Carry out any other tasks allocated by management.

EDUCATION AND OTHER QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Preferably a bachelor's degree in the field of marketing, hospitality, commerce or accounting.
• Minimum a diploma in any of the relevant fields. IATA Certification in Ticketing is desirable.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES REQUIREMENTS:

• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint in addition to software applications like Salesforce, Sabre, tour operator,…etc.
• Exceptional productivity and accuracy, problem solving, negotiation, sales, and proficient in achieving a significant amount of work at a high standard under pressure. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, effective in emails, face-to-face interactions, and telephone conversations. (Proficiency in English and Arabic, both written and spoken is highly desirable.)
• Excellent interpersonal, telephone and customer service skills. Ability to work in a busy sales team environment. PC knowledge to operate Windows packages such as Microsoft Word/Excel/Email etc.