Job Description
Description
About Kuoni Tumlare
At Kuoni Tumlare, we deliver truly inspiring and innovative solutions and experiences that create value both for our Partners and Society at large.
Our wide portfolio of products and solutions is built on 100+ years of destination management experience.
Our solutions include series tours, technical visits, educational tours, Japanspecialist travel consulting, as well as meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions.
Our product portfolio includes MyBus excursions at destinations as well as guaranteed departure tours devised and delivered by our Seat-in-Coach specialists, Europamundo (EMV) and MyBus Landcruise.
We cater to a wide range of customer needs in close collaboration with our trusted suppliers and powered by our team of destinations experts - enabling us to make a real difference to the world.
About the Role
Our Destination Management services form the core of our business. We take care of everything from ground support, hotel bookings, sightseeing, restaurants, and local guides; all while providing 24⁄7 customer support so that travelers from over 50 countries can enjoy memorable travel experiences worry free.
As the “Operations Team Leader”, you’ll be responsible for the smooth running of the respective Inbound services operations team. This role involves supervising, managing, and monitoring team workloads, assisting with training and making sure Operations team members perform efficiently their tasks and achieve all deadlines set.
Key Responsibilities
Supervise all operations related activities, ensure that resources are managed effectively and efficiently.
Responsible to ensure all guidelines, processes, system, and SLA´s are strictly adhered to.
Responsible for processes, policies, strategies, and deadlines being timely introduced to team members and followed by them.
Responsible planning resources, control of attendance and working hours.
Responsible to fully handle tours with the focus onto complex and incentive tours when required.
Overall responsibility of revenue (BIS control on tour level), ensuring the operations team checks all the system on regular basis.
Oversee internal in-trays and make sure that information is both acknowledged and replied to within deadlines.
Supporting team members with their daily questions, problems, negotiations
Conduct team and 1-2-1 meetings on regular basis.
Provide regular reporting, update and feedback on team performance and problematic areas to Deputy Country Manager
Ongoing analysis and feedback of supplier performance
Requirements
To Succeed in the Role, You Should Have:
Proven team leading experience
Strong delivery focus and a proven track record of devising and implementing common sense and pragmatic solutions.
Excellent organizational skills
Excellent ability to communicate, liaise and negotiate, internally and externally.
Fluency in English, both oral and written
Experience in tourism, travel industry
Geographic knowledge of CEE region (Czech, Slovakia, Hungary), solid destination knowledge of the region.
We Are Looking for a Person With:
Organized, pragmatic and flexible.
Willing to coach and mentor others to succeed.
Able to handle long and short-term multiple tasks, whilst working in a fast paced environment
Team player and revenue focused attitude
Leadership skills
What We Offer:
Interesting and variable full time office job (hybrid working possibility).
Fun and supportive international team across countries.
Different training and self-development activities.
Career development possibilities.
