Cruise Manager Quotes and Proposal (Travel Manager)

Our Luxury Travel Client is seeking a professional, detail orientated Cruise Manager within the BID team. The ideal candidate must have experience doing Quotes on Excel and have worked within Tourism/Cruise and managed a team.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Inbound Tour Operating Experience in Quotes and Proposals for a minimum of 5 years
• Tourism Qualification advantageous
• Previous Groups, Incentives or Cruise experience is an advantage
• Previous supervisory / management experience is an advantage
• Experience in TS/Tourplan or similar system is an advantage
• Computer Literacy – Word/Excel/PowerPoint/ Email

MAIN AREAS OF FOCUS:

• Prepare Quotes and proposals in line with our agreed processes and procedures.
• Communicate all tours and services quoted upon, within the Cruise Company RFP, with the Systems team to ensure rate collection for package building.
• Booking ground handling services as per request from the Agents.
• Hand over files to Operations within the specified time period.
• Maintain and build strong relationships with Cruise Agents and other clients and suppliers.
• Effective management of the Cruise Quotes and Proposals Team.
• Quoting and costing of flight itineraries for all requests that originate from the Cape Town office.
• Ensuring all Cape Town requests are received, and sent out timeously.