Lodging Partner Associate for French Market

Expedia is currently looking for action-oriented, motivated individuals who have an obsession with customer satisfaction to join our Lodging Support Services Contact Centre team. In this position, you will focus on providing inbound and outbound support Expedia hotel partners.
You will be dedicated and compassionate when dealing suppliers and travelers, and will work closely and professionally with other departments to ensure the best resolution. You will be versatile in managing multiple software programs, prompt and accurate in your responses to email and phone communications and provide a simple, rapid, competent support experience.
At Expedia we listen attentively and respond to our customers, because we are passionate about the traveler experience.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Responding to inventory management inquiries
• Contacting lodging partners to resolve issues (questions, changes, etc.)
• Proactively call lodging partners to resolve any anticipated future issues
• Providing supplier self-service support and maintenance
• Maintaining strong vendor relations with a positive attitude and outgoing nature
• Adhering to defined procedures, standards and performance expectations
• Fluent proficiency & comprehension in English and French language is required
• (High School Diploma, University Degree. Some college preferred)
• Experience in customer service oriented industry
• Hotel/Travel -industry experience preferred
• Experience with Microsoft Office products and various call centre support programs
Collectively, the Expedia brands cover virtually every aspect of researching, planning, and booking travel, from choosing the best airplane seat, to reading personal travel reviews of hotels, to planning what to do in a destination once you arrive.
The Expedia portfolio serves both leisure and business travelers with tastes and budgets ranging from modest to luxury. Expedia delivers consumer travel demand from nearly every continent to hundreds of thousands of hotels, hundreds of airlines, tour operators, car rental companies and destination services supply partners.

Core competencies:

• Professional customer service skills: solutions mindset, helping nature, passion for the customer and the customer experience
• Ability to handle difficult customer situations effectively; ability to set expectations and deliver information in a positive way
• Results-oriented individual who will take ownership of problem resolution
• Excellent time-management, organizational, multi-task and prioritization skills
• Quickly be able to demonstrate sound judgment, while abiding to guidelines and procedures ensuring clear and concise communication
• The ability to communicate effectively at all levels from executive management to individual contributor
• Keen eye for detail and high level of accuracy.
• Listens carefully and attentively to others' opinions and ideas; listens to others' perspectives and clarifies meaning before responding
• Dependable and able to work in a fast-paced work environment and be open and flexible to changes in daily responsibilities and assignments, as needed by the business
• The ability to work unsupervised and make independent work related decisions
• Flexibility and willingness to assist where and when needed and directed by your supervisor.
• Highly organized and detail oriented with a very strong focus on process, trends, and root cause analysis

Core competencies:

• Professional customer service skills: solutions mindset, helping nature, passion for the customer and the customer experience
• Ability to handle difficult customer situations effectively; ability to set expectations and deliver information in a positive way
• Results-oriented individual who will take ownership of problem resolution
• Excellent time-management, organizational, multi-task and prioritization skills
• Quickly be able to demonstrate sound judgment, while abiding to guidelines and procedures ensuring clear and concise communication
• The ability to communicate effectively at all levels from executive management to individual contributor
• Keen eye for detail and high level of accuracy.
• Listens carefully and attentively to others' opinions and ideas; listens to others' perspectives and clarifies meaning before responding
• Dependable and able to work in a fast-paced work environment and be open and flexible to changes in daily responsibilities and assignments, as needed by the business
• The ability to work unsupervised and make independent work related decisions
• Flexibility and willingness to assist where and when needed and directed by your supervisor.
• Highly organized and detail oriented with a very strong focus on process, trends, and root cause analysis