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Travel Desk Specialist
📜 Description
- Book domestic and international hotels and arrange international airfare, including itinerary research, ticketing, changes, cancellations, and refunds.
- Compare travel options by cost, schedule, routing, baggage allowance, and cancellation terms.
- Verify traveller details, approvals, project or cost-centre information, and policy compliance before confirming bookings.
- Coordinate with travel vendors and Finance on booking issues, invoices, refunds, reconciliation, and expense allocation.
- Maintain travel records and report on volumes, spend, savings, cancellations, exceptions, and service levels.
🛠️ Requirements
- 2–5 years of experience in corporate travel, travel operations, travel agency operations, or a similar role.
- Hands-on experience with international airfare bookings and hotel reservations.
- Experience managing itinerary changes, cancellations, refunds, reissues, and airline schedule disruptions.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, email, and travel or expense-management systems.
- Experience working with a global workforce or supporting travellers across different time zones is preferred.
- Familiarity with global hotel programs, corporate rates, negotiated rates, and travel-management-company processes.
- Coordinate complex multi-city and multi-country itineraries and provide travellers with accurate confirmations and required documents.
✨ Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance, with options to extend coverage to dependents
- Paid time off and company holidays
- Additional leave benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Learning and development opportunities
- Employee wellness initiatives
- Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations
Full job description
The Travel Desk Analyst will manage end-to-end business travel arrangements for employees, with primary responsibility for hotel bookings and international air travel. The role will ensure that travel is arranged accurately, cost-effectively, and in accordance with company travel policies, while providing responsive support to employees and internal stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
Travel Arrangements
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Manage domestic and international hotel bookings based on approved travel requests, employee preferences, business requirements, and company policy.
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Arrange international airfare, including itinerary research, fare comparison, ticket booking, rebooking, cancellations, refunds, and schedule-change handling.
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Evaluate available travel options for cost, schedule, routing, baggage allowance, cancellation terms, and overall suitability.
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Coordinate multi-city, multi-country, and complex itineraries for employees and business travellers.
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Validate travel dates, traveller details, passport information, preferred routes, project or cost-centre details, and approval status before confirming bookings.
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Issue accurate booking confirmations and itineraries and ensure travellers receive all required travel documentation.
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Ensure all bookings comply with the company’s travel policy, approval matrix, preferred supplier arrangements, and budget requirements.
Vendor and Financial Coordination
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Coordinate with travel management companies, airlines, hotels, and other travel vendors to resolve booking and service issues.
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Review booking confirmations, invoices, credit notes and refunds
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Track travel spends, savings, cancellations, unused tickets, and other relevant metrics.
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Provide required booking information to Finance for reconciliation, expense allocation, and reporting.
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Support vendor performance reviews and identify opportunities to improve rates, service quality, and booking efficiency.
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Maintain accurate records of travel requests, approvals, bookings, cancellations, refunds, and outstanding actions.
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Prepare periodic reports on travel volumes, spend, savings, exceptions, cancellations, and service levels.
Required Qualifications and Experience
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2–5 years of experience in corporate travel, travel operations, travel agency operations, or a similar role.
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Hands-on experience with international airfare bookings and hotel reservations.
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Experience managing itinerary changes, cancellations, refunds, reissues, and airline schedule disruptions.
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Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, email, and travel or expense-management systems.
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Experience working with a global workforce or supporting travellers across different time zones is preferred.
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Familiarity with global hotel programs, corporate rates, negotiated rates, and travel-management-company processes.
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