Experienced Customer Service Manager – Airport Customer Experience Administration at blithequark

Are you ready to embark on a thrilling journey, where you'll not only excel in your career but also experience the world in all its glory? Join the blithequark family, and you'll have the opportunity to travel the world, grow your expertise, and become the best version of yourself. As you soar to new heights, you'll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and take off with blithequark!

Why You'll Love This Job

• blithequark is looking for a goal-oriented Customer Service Manager (CSM) who wants to elevate their experience, knowledge, and network within the company. With our leadership program, you will be able to develop yourself to be the best leader you want to be in the blithequark organization.

• CSMs must ensure a safe, high-performing operation by leading, engaging, coaching, and developing the front-line team members. You will be supporting your teams' efforts by creating a safe, reliable operation while delivering an exceptional customer experience.
• Also, being energized by a fast-paced dynamic environment and passionate about safety, teamwork, leadership, and delivering a quality product to our customers, front-line, and vendors.
• CSMs must enable an environment that develops our front-line team members and fosters mutual respect, trust, responsibility, and core values while connecting people and improving lives during our day-to-day operation.
• This job is a member of the Airports Team within the Customer Experience Division at blithequark.

What You'll Do

As a Customer Service Manager at blithequark, you will be responsible for driving operational excellence while maintaining a safety-conscious environment that promotes end-to-end exceptional customer service, resulting in employee and customer safety and well-being. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Drives operational excellence while keeping a safety-conscious environment that promotes end-to-end exceptional customer service, resulting in employee and customer safety and well-being
• Be a safety advocate: Look for safety concerns and address them as needed
• Establish team and individual goals in support of departmental and company objectives; Coaches and mentors frontline team members in skill development, customer service elevation, and company culture behaviors
• Establishes and promotes effective relationships with team members that fosters compassion, authenticity, integrity, respect, and dignity
• Effectively allocates resources and provides appropriate support to enable teams to deliver on operational goals in a safe manner
• Ensure the ongoing safety and reliability of our operation by conducting self-audits, observations, root cause investigations, and other related safety engagements
• Promote effective communication among departments to engage our team to work together to achieve common goals
• Familiarity with Joint Collective Bargaining Agreement (JCBA) and ensure team members adhere to corporate policy/procedure
• Embrace the core values: (Passion, commitment, efficiency, reliability, dependability, optimism, honesty, positivity, and loyalty)
• Analyze station-specific data on a regular basis to improve scheduling, training, and overall station performance
• Conduct lost time conversations
• Understand corporate initiatives and how they apply to the local station (e.g., One team, One Turn metrics)
• Ability to learn and apply union contract rules/regs in interactions with frontline team members and local union leaders
• Produce local reporting based on station leadership needs

All You'll Need for Success

Minimum Qualifications – Education & Prior Job Experience

• High School diploma or GED equivalency

Preferred Qualifications – Education & Prior Job Experience

• Previous airport customer service experience

• 2 years of experience leading others
• Knowledge of company policies and procedures and functional automation applications

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Ability to bring out the best performance in the workforce through proactive employee engagement and support for an inclusive working environment

• Ability to actively listen – giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate
• Critical thinking ability – using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems
• Ability to monitor and assess performance of self, team members, and the operation to make improvements or take corrective action
• Strong decision-making skills
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively
• Ability to work under demanding operational conditions
• Ability to prioritize and execute with a sense of urgency and preciseness
• Ability to use sound business judgment to resolve issues with internal and external customers
• Ability to coordinate station activities and collaborate with multi-functional departments and agencies to ensure essential needs are met for a safe, efficient, on-time operation
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.
• Has USPS clearance or the ability to obtain USPS clearance. USPS has a five-year United States residency requirement
• Ability to work extra hours when there are operational needs
• Ability to work rotating shifts, including weekends, holidays, and days-off

What You'll Get

Feel free to take advantage of all that blithequark has to offer:

• Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family, and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
• Health Benefits: On day one, you'll have access to your health, dental, prescription, and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that's just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts, and more.
• Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that's why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources, and support you need.
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance, and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises, and more

Feel Free to Be Yourself at blithequark

From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at blithequark. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities, and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world. Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life's journey? Feel free to be yourself at blithequark. Apply Job! Apply for this job