Overview
Paying £25,000 to £27,000
Cruise and Destination Experience Coordinator
Salary £25,000 to £27,000 depending on experience
Permanent
Hybrid / Home and Folkestone
If you love creating unforgettable moments for guests and enjoy working in a role where no two days feel the same, this could be the perfect opportunity for you. As a Cruise and Destination Experience Coordinator, you’ll play a key part in bringing our shore excursions to life. Helping to design, set up and deliver experiences that inspire, delight and stay with our guests long after they return home.
You’ll join our Cruise Operations team, supporting our European and Worldwide programmes, and helping ensure every Destination Experience meets the highest commercial, operational and guest experience standards. It’s a role where your organisation, creativity and passion for great service will shine.
We work in a hybrid way at Saga both at home and in the office.
Role Responsibility
This is a hands on role where you’ll help shape and deliver our market leading shore excursion programmes. You’ll support the set up, administration and operational delivery of Destination Experiences across our Ocean and River Cruise itineraries, ensuring every experience is accurate, inspiring and aligned with our product strategy.
You will be responsible for:
• System administration and data input to support the delivery of Destination Experience information
• Setting up excursions in line with planned itineraries to ensure guests receive accurate pre cruise information
• Reviewing content to ensure all guest facing information is correct and meets expectations
• Supporting the operational delivery of shore excursion programmes across all destinations
• Managing excursion capacity to ensure guests can enjoy their first choice experiences
• Enhancing River Cruise content to ensure it is engaging, inspirational, informative and factual
• Ensuring consistency of information across all cruise vessels
• Liaising with internal teams and external suppliers to support and enhance guest experiences
• Championing product quality by ensuring all excursions meet health, safety and insurance guidelines
• Conducting research to ensure Saga Cruises remains a market leader of bespoke quality experiences
• Responding to sales team queries
• Supporting the wider cruise operation as required
The Ideal Candidate
You’re someone who thrives in a fast moving environment and takes pride in delivering exceptional guest experiences. You’re organised, proactive and able to work with accuracy and care, even when juggling multiple deadlines.
You’ll bring:
• Strong organisational, time management and multi tasking skills
• Confidence using systems (Taurus, MXP, Word, Excel, Outlook[JN1.1]) and strong numeracy and literacy
• Excellent administrative, analytical and problem solving abilities
• A guest centric mindset with a passion for creating memorable experiences
• Flexibility, adaptability and a calm, proactive approach under pressure
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills
• The ability to build productive internal and external relationships
Desirable;
• Knowledge of Saga’s cruise operation
• Destination knowledge
• Familiarity with Saga systems
• MXP experience
Saga Values: Make it Happen, Do the Right Thing, Customer First, Excellence Every Day, Our People Make Us Special
Package Description
At Saga we recognise that our people make us special. We believe our colleagues deserve rewards for the excellence they demonstrate every single day, that’s why we have put together an amazing benefits package for all colleagues.
BENEFITS AVAILABLE FOR THIS ROLE:
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Option to purchase additional leave – 5 extra days
- Pension scheme matched up to 10%
- Company performance related annual bonus – Up to 5%
- Life assurance policy on joining us, 4 x salary
- Wellbeing programme
- Colleague discounts including family discounts on cruises, holidays and insurance
- Range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Grandparents leave
- Income protection
- Access to Saga Academy, our bespoke learning platform
About the Company
Over the past 70 years we have become the UK’s specialist provider of products and services to people aged over 50 in the UK. The Saga brand has become one of the most recognised and trusted brands amongst UK consumers in this demographic, recognised for its high quality products and exceptional standards of service. These include cruises and holidays, insurance, personal finance and the Saga Magazine.
At Saga we are committed to treating all employees fairly and to offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement. We value diversity not just because it is the right thing to do, but because diverse teams perform better.
Fair consideration is given to applications from all applicants, including those with disabilities and those over who are over 50 as we are champions of age inclusivity. We are an official Disability Confident Committed employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required. For more information on our DEI policies please visit our Saga Careers page.
Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Saga will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.
Job Reference: saga/TP/247980/3565
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