Lodging Partner Associate (German & English speaker)

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Lodging Partner Associate (German & English speaker)

Assist in the resolution of customer* questions and inquires in booking, configuring, or consuming Expedia Group travel-related services. Adept at resolving issues efficiently and effectively.

What you'll do:

• Follows processes relevant to each work channel (e.g., around call backs, holds, interruptions, and unintentional disconnects) to minimize customer effort
• Researches and analyzes data from various sources and tools to resolve customer issues
• Initiates contact with customers where appropriate to solve the issue completely and to add value
• Assists customers in using provided technology as appropriate to help customer* with future interactions
• Follows up with individual customers until the issue is resolved or handed off to supporting team (as appropriate) to drive resolution
• Communicates in a timely manner and sets expectations regarding next steps and/or obligations of all parties
• Summarizes issues of advanced complexity and frames recommended solutions
• Identifies when an issue might impact other or future customers and escalates to supporting teams to drive resolution
• Demonstrates attention during discussions by taking notes and asking clarifying questions
• Restates and reflects back information to check for understanding
• Articulate in both verbal and written communication, demonstrating professionalism and appropriate empathy as well as ability to adjust style/format based on audience
• Able to communicate effectively in a multi-channel environment (e.g., voice, chat, email, case management, etc.)
• Communicate with multiple parties (e.g., customers, partners, etc.) as needed to negotiate and resolve individual issues
• Listens attentively to others, ensuring they have the opportunity to finish speaking without disruption or interruption; asks probing and intelligent follow-up questions to uncover root cause
• Asks for clarification and validates understanding of messages by providing appropriate responses
• Handles and de-escalates issues that are escalated by customers
• Ability to succinctly and clearly communicate instruction on next steps and decisions on outcomes of investigations
• Demonstrates ability to manage several tasks and meet deliverables with minimal error
• Determines the relative impact and urgency of individual tasks
• Appropriately makes difficult trade-offs on time and resources when faced with conflicting demands and high-priority deadlines
• Highly effective in managing multiple software programs while conversing with different parties
• Categorizes cases appropriately, allowing further analysis of incidents
• Learns and suggests improvements to processes and procedures to help reduce customer effort and improve operating costs
• Proposes solutions to prevent further occurrence of the problem, which will assist in reducing costs
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Provides adequate documentation on case records to notate interaction and support handling by other agents, customers, or customer service employees
• Updates customer contact information and maintains a history of contact activity
• Follows up and keeps others (e.g., senior leaders and team members) informed of progress on tasks
• Completes work within established timeframes
• Anticipates customers' needs and provides quality service that exceeds customers' expectations by asking probing questions to identify the root cause
• Has strong problem-solving abilities and ensures the highest level of service is achieved
• Provides customers with opportunities to improve their platform experiences and actively shares information on features and updates which can enhance the customer's experience
• Builds a working knowledge of products, technologies, offerings, etc. within scope of responsibility
• Begins developing relationships with customer directly
• Provides customers with basic, standard information regarding products/offerings
• Recommends value add products, services, and insights that will meet the customers' needs and influence marketplace behavior
• Promote adoption of self-service customer tools
• Acquires a basic understanding of how the department operates and fits into the larger organization
• Assists in the development, testing, and communication of operational policies and procedures

Who you are:

• 6-12 months Customer Service experience
• Fluent in English and German
• Associate's degree or equivalent related professional experience
• Knowledge of customer* case management software and tools
• Advanced computer knowledge, including all core Microsoft Office programs

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