Employment Opportunities

Los Angeles Headquarters Office - Calabasas, CA USA

Operations Coordinator | Operations

Operations Coordinator

You will be asked to provide your name and contact email address and to upload your resume. As part of the application process, you will also have to complete two online tests: a Cognitive Aptitude Test and an Employee Personality Profile.

Department: Operations

Location: Los Angeles Headquarters Office - Calabasas CA USA

Reports to: Chief Operations Officer

Position Summary:

This position is primarily responsible for coordinating and overseeing the successful operation of one, or more ships through the flow of information to Hotels, Ground Suppliers, and European Staff, and internally with group and sales agents by performing the following duties.

Duties & Responsibilites:

  • Works to a set Calendar of tasks for day-to-day operations.
  • Maintains hotel blocks and releases and requests space, including extra nights, and upgrades.
  • Runs reports.
  • Creates accurate manifests to convey appropriate “cruise” information and sends it to necessary suppliers, utilizing the reservation system.
  • Confirms services with ground suppliers through monthly updating of passenger numbers.
  • Maintains costing sheets per departure for costing control.
  • Generates, compiles, packages, and sends customer final documents.
  • Works with the Group department to ensure all groups run smoothly.
  • Coordinates any requests for custom services, in a timely manner and quote pricing to the end user.
  • Answer operations questions from the Reservations (Group and Free Independent Traveler (FIT)) department.
  • Works with the Air department to ensure air tickets are issued in time and accurately.
  • Negotiates with suppliers for contracted and custom services.
  • Validates online tour selection menu for each cruise.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned by management

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications:

  • Associate's Degree (AA) or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school, or six months to one-year related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Computer skills required:
    • Inventory Software; Microsoft Office Suite; Database Software, Internet Software, Spreadsheet Software, Word Processing Software, Electronic Mail Software, Presentation Software, Reservation Software, Phone Software
  • Other Skills Required:
    • Excellent organizational, leadership, interpersonal communication, and computer skills.
    • Clear and conceptual thinking ability is a plus.
    • Excellent judgment and discretion; ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously, meet deadlines, and handle work-related stress is required.
    • Friendly, courteous, service-oriented, professional, outgoing, and customer service oriented.
    • Remains calm and professional in stressful situations.
    • Detail-oriented and work effectively under pressure while meeting all applicable deadlines.
    • Must be able to work independently and productively with minimum supervision.
    • Recognizes problems, identifies possible causes, and resolves routine problems.
    • Ability to establish and maintain a professional atmosphere for employees, clients, and customers.
    • Operations experience required.
    • Knowledge of geography is helpful.
    • At least one year of experience required.
    • Ability to analyze the risk, benefit, and impact of decisions on the present and future business environment prior to taking action.
    • Ability to look at situations from several points of view.
    • Advance spreadsheet and computer skills.
    • Ability to work with internal and external senior level executives.
    • Demonstrable competence in team building, development of objectives and goals, and goal accomplishment.
    • Exceptionally strong leadership and management capabilities.
    • May require some travel on an as needed basis

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

  • Occasionally required to stand
  • Occasionally required to walk
  • Continually required to sit
  • Continually required to utilize hand and finger dexterity
  • Continually required to talk or hear
  • While performing the duties of this job, the noise level in the work environment is usually moderate
  • The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include: Close vision; Color vision

Remote; U.S. Based, non-California resident

River Cruise Specialist | Reservations

River Cruise Specialist

You will be asked to provide your name and contact email address and to upload your resume. As part of the application process, you will also have to complete three online tests: a Criteria Basic Skills Test, Employee Personality Profile, and Computer Literacy and Internet Knowledge Test.

Department: Reservations

Location: Remote; U.S. Based, non-California resident

Reports to: Vice President, Reservations

Position Summary:

This position is primarily responsible for selling the company’s product to travel agencies and direct guests, providing telephone customer support services by performing the following duties.

Duties & Responsibilites:

  • Exceeds travel partner expectations through the completion of all reservation and sales-related processes as listed.
  • Handles inbound sales lead calls to convert calls into sales.
  • Emphasizes salable features, quotes prices, and payment terms.
  • Takes payments accurately.
  • Makes outbound lead follow-up calls to potential and existing customers by telephone and e-mail to qualify leads and sell products and services.
  • Answers questions and recommends corrective services to address customer complaints.
  • Overcomes technical and business objections of prospective customers.
  • Builds and maintains customer relationships.
  • Oversees quality control of bookings to maintain the integrity of product.
  • Handles high call volume, navigates system software, and utilizes Outlook.
  • Books cruises, generates invoices, and follows up with travel agents and/or direct guests.
  • Develops and nurtures relationships with travel agencies and/or direct clients.
  • Updates and maintains the reservation database, verifies client information and makes necessary corrections to new and existing bookings.
  • Requests air quotes through the in-house Air department.
  • Quotes prices and payment terms.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned by management.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications:

  • High school diploma or general education degree (GED), or one to three months related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • At least three years of sales and/or customer service experience or a combination of both.
  • Computer skills required:
    • Microsoft Office Suite; Internet Software, Spreadsheet Software, Word Processing Software, Electronic Mail Software, Presentation Software, Reservation Software, Phone Software
  • Other Skills Required:
    • Excellent organizational, leadership, interpersonal communication, and computer skills.
    • Clear and conceptual thinking ability is a plus.
    • Excellent judgment and discretion; ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously, meet deadlines, and handle work-related stress is required.
    • Friendly, courteous, service-oriented, professional, outgoing, and customer service oriented.
    • Remains calm and professional in stressful situations.
    • Detail-oriented and works effectively under pressure while meeting all applicable deadlines.
    • Must be able to work independently and productively with minimum supervision.
    • Recognizes problems, identifies possible causes, and resolves routine problems.
    • Ability to establish and maintain a professional atmosphere for employees, clients, and customers.
    • Able to work a flexible schedule to include weekends.
    • Good knowledge, preferably through personal experience, of world geography, and foreign countries.
    • Requires a result-oriented sales professional with strong closing skills.
    • Requires domestic and international travel on an as-needed basis.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

  • Occasionally required to stand
  • Occasionally required to walk
  • Continually required to sit
  • Continually required to utilize hand and finger dexterity
  • Continually required to talk or hear
  • While performing the duties of this job, the noise level in the work environment is usually moderate
  • The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 10 pounds
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include: Close vision; Color vision

Basel, Switzerland Office

Operations Coordinator | Operations

Operations Coordinator

You will be asked to provide your name and contact email address and to upload your resume. As part of the application process, you will also have to complete two online tests, a Cognitive Aptitude Test and an Employee Personality Profile.

Department: Operations

Location: Basel, Switzerland Office

Reports to: Rahel Kellermann

Position Summary:

This position is primarily responsible for coordinating and overseeing the successful operation of one, or more ships through the flow of information to Hotels, Ground Suppliers, Cruise Managers, Ships and other European Staff and internally with the Los Angeles Office by performing the following duties. This position is based in Basel Switzerland, working in the Basel Office. You must have the legal right to live and work in Switzerland.

Duties & Responsibilites:

Core duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following

  • >Work to a set Calendar of tasks for day-to-day operations.
  • >Run reports.
  • >Validates accuracy of cruise manifests, and conveys appropriate changes to necessary suppliers, and Operations Team in Los Angeles.
  • >Ensures Cruise Managers confirm services with ground suppliers in the appropriate amount of time, to ensure cost control through managing said confirmed services.
  • >Maintains accurate guest counts by shore excursion and cruise departure for costing control.
  • >Works with the Los Angeles Operations Team members to ensure all departures run smoothly.
  • >Helps coordinate the delivery of any custom services, requested by groups/charters.
  • >Helps answer operations questions from the Sales, Marketing and Reservations (Group and FIT) departments.
  • >Works with the Air Department when necessary to ensure new or changed air tickets are issued in time and accurately.
  • >Validates accuracy of guest e-documents and works to help amend corrections required within the reservation system.
  • >Emergency management in case of any disruptions of the cruise itineraries.
  • >Emergency phone duties.
  • >Quality control of all onboard services.
  • >Quality control of all shore excursions, transfers, hotels and the suppliers that provide those services.
  • >Performs other related duties as assigned by management.c

Expected Standards:

  • Quality control through the accurate monitoring and reporting of data to suppliers – either confirming services and passenger numbers or through accurate information on manifests and emails.
  • Managing of itineraries in emergency situations.

Qualifications:

  • Excellent organizational, leadership, interpersonal communication and computer skills.
  • Clear and conceptual thinking ability is a plus.
  • Excellent judgment and discretion; ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously, meet deadlines, and handle work-related stress is required.
  • Friendly, courteous, service-oriented, professional, outgoing, and customer service oriented.
  • Remain calm and professional in stressful situations.
  • Detail-oriented and work effectively under pressure while meeting all applicable deadlines.
  • Must be able to work independently and productively with minimum supervision.
  • Recognize problems, identify possible causes and resolve routine problems.
  • Ability to establish and maintain professional atmosphere for employees, clients, and customers.
  • Operations experience required.
  • Extensive knowledge of European river cruise ports and destinations desired.
  • At least one year of experience required.
  • Ability to analyze the risk, benefit, and impact of decisions on the present and future business environment prior to taking action.
  • Ability to look at situations from several points of view.
  • Advanced spreadsheet and computer skills.
  • Ability to work with internal and external senior level executives.
  • Demonstrable competence in team building, development of objectives and goals, and goal accomplishments.
  • Exceptionally strong leadership and management capabilities.
  • Ability and willingness to travel, work on a flexible schedule including weekends, as well as being able to quickly adapt to new situations.

Europe

Wellness Host

Wellness Host

Are you a European passport holder and interested in becoming part of the AmaWaterways family? Please send your application to [email protected]

Location: Europe

Position Summary:

Whether on the French Rivers such as Seine or Bordeaux Estuary, the Rhine from Amsterdam to Basel, the lovely Moselle River or the Danube through Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria, the Amawaterways Boutique vessels, designed for well-being and relaxation, offers its guests customised service and personal hospitality at the highest level. Be a part of it!

For the Amawaterways fleet, we require Wellness Host who make every day on the River a fascinating, active experience and considers the title “premium“ to refer to their own performance.

The language on board with the passengers is English. Therefore, an excellent knowledge of English language is compulsory.

Work Description & Primary Responsibilites:

  • Offer a minimum of 4 Sessions (30-45min) but up to 7 per day.
    • Base Classes offered for all activity level participation: Morning stretches, Active Walks, Core Strengthening, Resistance Bands, One on One (if there is a demand)
  • One educational talk/lecture
    • As well as the Introduction talk for the program at the beginning of the cruise
  • Responsible for the cleaning of the Gym Area
  • Help with the Bike Setup and assisting in being a Backup Guide on the Tours
  • Hospitality desk hours

Qualifications:

  • Organizational skills
  • Good manners, kindness and cordiality
  • Responsible
  • Team spirit and resilience
  • Flexibility and willingness to learn
  • Communicative, positive and motivating
  • Strong customer service oriented and warm hosts
  • Basic anatomical knowledge
  • Extended and refreshed every year First Aid is mandatory

Qualified Personal Trainer or Group Exercise Instructor certificate/studies is essential!

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