Customer Sales & Service Team Leader

About us: Built around a team of extremely passionate destination experts, Emirates Holidays is the tour operator of the internationally renowned Emirates airline. Specialising in Dubai & the UAE, Indian Ocean and South East Asia, we provide curated premium holidays to a wide range of amazing long haul destinations all wrapped up with flights on the award-winning Emirates. Benefits: We offer our employee's competitive remuneration packages, attractive travel benefits, and career development supported by multi-million dollar training facilities in Dubai, and e-Learning programmes for those seeking a long-term future in the Company. Are you looking for a job where you can grow professionally and build your career in a multinational airline? If you love traveling, interacting with customers and colleagues from across the Emirates network, there are opportunities for you.Emirates is the worlds largest international airline, with a network that spans over 130 destinations in 85 countries. Job Purpose The Customer Sales & Service Team Leader will expertly lead a team of Travel Consultants by providing guidance, coaching, mentoring, and leading by example to support the team to achieve the set sales and service goals. The individual must be able to motivate a very driven team to uphold standards and deliver on core brand values. Job Outline Lead, coach and develop clusters of Sales & Service team members to deliver departmental objectives and targets. Undertake team management responsibility such as 1-2-1 meetings, conducting performance assessments (PMs), team briefings, training and ensuring compliance with policies & procedures for improved efficiencies and overall performance. Conduct regular call evaluations to rate the quality of the customer interaction against our brand guidelines and provide coaching support to improve performance at Individual and/or Team level. Provide trouble-shooting support for staff to improve service and sales measures through best practices. Support line manager in on-boarding/training/shadowing and induction of new joiners throughout their induction period. Be a first line escalation point for customers. This requires managing difficult and challenging situations and providing commercially minded solutions that also instill and restore customer confidence and satisfaction to foster repeat business. Provide multi-faceted support across the Contact Centre Teams board, as well as out-of-hours support for customers. Liaise with Line Manager and Managing Director for frequent feedback, recommendations, and strategy sessions. Support business units within the Aftersales & Service teams and collaborate with Product, Marketing, Customer Operations, and Finance teams for smooth operations. Ensure that policies and procedures released by the Business Efficiency team are implemented and their application is continuously enforced. Act as first point of contact for Finance Queries on Sales & Aftersales matters Collaborate with other team leaders to ensure that there is consistency of application and effective communication with the department. Qualifications & Experience Minimum A Level or equivalent A good sound knowledge of the travel industry and a minimum of 5 years experience in a Tour Operating and/or Retail environment. Previous supervisory experience and proven ability to motivate, coach and develop staff. A commercial awareness and ability to drive conversion to hit sales targets. Ability to communicate effectively at all levels with proven influencing skills. A solid understanding of the importance of customer experience and exceeding the customers expectations. An expert in Destinations visited and the willingness to share that knowledge and experience with our customers and colleagues. A proactive team player with a strong initiative to achieve and an ability to provide feedback & recommendations for improved business performance. A working knowledge and understanding of ABTA/ATOL/PTR & GDPR rules and regulations. A thorough knowledge of all EKH Trading T&Cs, including Airline policies and procedures for optimal customer service delivery. Proficient in MS/365 Applications and IT literate Flexibility to work shifts, including evenings, weekends, and bank holidays. Weekly Office attendance is a must for early shifts rostered until 6.30pm Ability to handle disruptions and provide emergency response actions. Information Must have the legal right to live and work in The United Kingdom. TPBN1_UKTJ