Job Description
Job Summary
- We are looking for an experienced, and passionate Travel Agency Manager to join our team. As a Travel Agency Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the travel agency, ensuring excellent customer service, maximising sales and managing the Ticketing/Tours, Digital Marketing, Educational/Visa and Administrative Units in our organisation. The role requires leadership, strategic planning, and the ability to manage both staff and client relationships effectively.
Job Description:
- To Oversee Operations in the following units listed below
Ticketing/Tours
- Ensuring handling/managing of all enquiries on ticket requests as they come in via email and phone
- Ensuring we receive or acquire all necessary details used to fare requests from the customer
- Ensuring follow-ups and sending questionnaires to customers on request, confirming his/her preferred airline, flight time, and waiting hours before proceeding with the request
- Ensuring response time to enquiries
- Ensuring response time on complaints
- Ensuring resolution time for complaints – 24hrs
- Ensuring customer is given feedback twice within 24hrs on complaints not yet resolved
- Ensuring customer is profiled correctly by requesting travel history, documents, preferred seat/class of travel/protocol
- Ensuring customer complaints is escalated to the superior officer before proffering a solution
- Ensuring that when providing itinerary for clients, options must be cheaper than the original request
- Ensuring no errors while making bookings or reserving flight tickets
- Ensuring no losses while making bookings or reserving flight tickets
- Ensuring reports are sent as at when due
- Ensuring customer database is updated as at when due
- Ensuring ticket sales are duly recorded after issuance
Educational/Visa
- Ensuring and report on research schools and their admission requirements (10 schools/month)
- Ensuring and follow-up on trending or latest news on immigration policies
- Ensuring and following up with prospective clients weekly
- Ensuring and report on assistance with visa and admission applications as at when due
- Ensure to give detailed advice to prospective clients on the financial implications of their request
- Ensuring handling of tourist and business visa applications for current and new clients
- Ensuring and follow-up with tourist and business visa applications to a successful end
- Ensuring weekly reports of schools researched and summary of information gathered
- Ensuring weekly meetings to inform staff of the latest news/immigration policies
Digital Marketing
- Ensure and collate weekly reports on content posted on social media + Reels
- Ensure and report on activities/engagements on social media
- Ensure and report on website management activities
- Maintain an effective process for customer feedback on social media handles
- Facilitate and ensure that content is geared at boosting brand awareness
- Creating and Ensuring work structure and processes are efficiently adhered to by all Units
- Report on the benefits of using paid ads to reach people within the target segments
- Ensuring email marketing
Administrative
- Manage agency budgets, expenses, and financial reporting.
- Ensure compliance with IATA regulations and company policies.
- Review and approve invoices and payments
- Ensure and report level of order and system in maintaining files and workspace
- Ensure and report employee satisfaction with administrative support.
- Ensure and report due payment on all agencies
Educational Qualification
- Degree holder / HND qualification.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience
- Amadeus/Galileo Certification
- IATA Certification
Skills:
- Visa Processing skills
- Interpersonal Communication
- Problem-solving and critical thinking
- Leadership skills
- Managing a team efficiently
- Entrepreneurship skills
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Proficiency in MS Office