Princess Cruises Reservations Advisor

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Southampton, Hampshire, England, GBR
Hybrid
Entry level
Manufacturing
The Role
Provide exceptional inbound customer service to cruise guests and travel agent partners. Resolve pre- and post-cruise queries, manage bookings accurately, recommend cruise products, convert enquiries into sales, and handle complex requests through resolution. The role also involves webchat support, first-call resolution, guest retention, and meeting sales and telephony targets while working rostered shifts.
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We take enormous pride from bringing to life Princess Cruises and as one of our Reservations Advisors, you will demonstrate a passion for our brand when talking to our guests and travel agent partners, providing exceptional customer service, enhancing guest experience, and delivering against sales & telephony targets.

Key Responsibilities Include:

  • Using your product knowledge and exceptional customer service skills to resolve queries both pre and post cruise via inbound calls.
  • Aiming to provide first-call resolution, delivering the desired outcome for guests and travel agent partners.
  • Building trusting relationships with guests and travel agent partners, proactively identifying itineraries and cruise products that best match their needs.
  • Converting enquiries into bookings by confidently recommending and selling cruise holidays, cabins, packages, and relevant products.
  • Managing cruise bookings from initial enquiry through to confirmation, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail throughout the booking process.
  • Delivering outstanding guest satisfaction and creating memorable customer experiences.
  • Supporting travel agent and guest queries via webchat.
  • Handling complex and special requests with professionalism, demonstrating expert product knowledge and ownership through to resolution.

This role is classified as CUK13 and is available on a full-time, permanent basis. We offer hybrid work with a minimum of two days per week in our Southampton office.

Requirements: What You Need to Succeed 
Successful candidates will possess:

  • Effective communication skills and be able to offer great customer service, with the desire to go the extra mile for our guests and travel partners
  • Be a problem solver with the ability to resolve enquiries and complaints, delivering first call resolution to a high-quality standard.
  • Use product knowledge to identify opportunities to retain guests’ bookings by promoting our product features and benefits

We recognise the value in having people with a variety of backgrounds, experience and skills in our business. That means the role requirements here should be seen as a guide, not a checklist.

About You: The Ideal Candidate 
You are more than just your CV. You're someone who brings:

  • Professionalism – be ready for work, courteous to colleagues and protect customer information
  • Positive Attitude
  • Team Collaboration
  • Adaptability

Reservation Advisor: What you need to know

Interview Process – will include a one way video interview, an online assessment and a face to face interview (Discovery Day) at Carnival House (this will include an Icebreaker, Q&A with a member of the team, a group activity and a 121 interview with competency style questions).

Training: first 5 weeks will be with our training team; Monday to Friday 9am to 17:00 which requires full attendance for the full period. 
Average working hours are 35 per week.

You will be required to work shifts on a rostered basis within the opening hours of the Contact Centre (CCO) Monday to Friday 08:00 to 20:00 , Saturday 09:00 to 17:00 and Sunday 10:00 - 16:00, inclusive of weekends and evenings. 
 

You will be required to work 2 Saturdays in 4 and 2 Sundays in 4.  Your shifts will be exclusive of breaks for lunch. Your exact shifts, rotations and breaks will be subject to local arrangements with the CCO Resource Planning team.

Why Join Us? 

Working within our Contact Centre Operations teams means you’ll be part of a community that values growth, work-life balance, and well-being.

  • Bonus Scheme
  • Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
  • Recognition scheme with prizes and awards
  • Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
  • Extensive learning and development opportunities
  • Employee-led networks
  • Company paid Health Cash Plan and health assessment
  • Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal
  • Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme.

Take the Next Step 
Our Hiring teams value giving candidates a great experience, if we receive a high volume of applications that will compromise our ability to offer the service we like to provide, the role could be paused or closed early, we therefore encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment.

Recruitment Journey
For more information on your recruitment journey, please visit our  Candidate Journey Map.

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About Us
Holidays are one of life’s greatest pleasures, and having the chance to relax, escape and explore is a magical thing. There is no hiding that we love cruise, and we believe there is no better holiday than a cruise. In fact, we are The Love Boat.

In addition to offering a premium way to travel and explore the world, Princess Cruises distinguishes itself with its emphasis on personalised service, innovation and delighting millions of guests every year.  And this is precisely what our agile and tight knit teams do, onboard and onshore. We share high standards, heartfelt values and ultimately a passion for Princess Cruises.

As part of Carnival Corporation, our Culture Essentials describe the expectations we have for ourselves and of each other, in building a culture that supports safe, sustainable, compliant operations and celebrates diversity, equality and inclusion.

It’s through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture, that we hope to become Travel’s Employer of Choice.

Now is the time to join our Princess community, and discover why The Love Boat is so loved by so many.

Skills Required

  • Effective communication skills
  • Customer service skills and willingness to exceed guest and travel partner expectations
  • Problem-solving ability and experience resolving enquiries and complaints
  • Ability to deliver high-quality first-call resolution
  • Ability to use product knowledge to identify retention and promotional opportunities
  • Professionalism and ability to protect customer information
  • Positive attitude
  • Team collaboration
  • Adaptability
  • Availability for five weeks of full-time training, Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 17:00
  • Availability to work rostered shifts, including evenings and weekends
  • Availability to work two Saturdays and two Sundays in each four-week period
  • Ability to work an average of 35 hours per week
  • Attendance at the Southampton office at least two days per week under the hybrid arrangement
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The Company
HQ: Framingham, MA
26,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1951

What We Do

CCL Industries Inc. employs approximately 26,000 people operating 213 production facilities in 43 countries with corporate offices in Toronto, Canada, and Framingham, Massachusetts. CCL is the world’s largest converter of pressure sensitive and specialty extruded film materials for a wide range of decorative, instructional, functional and security applications for government institutions and large global customers in the consumer packaging, healthcare & chemicals, consumer electronic device and automotive markets. Extruded & laminated plastic tubes, aluminum aerosols & specialty bottles, folded instructional leaflets, precision decorated & die cut components, electronic displays, polymer bank note substrate and other complementary products and services are sold in parallel to specific end-use markets. Avery is the world’s largest supplier of labels, specialty converted media and software solutions for short-run digital printing applications for businesses and consumers available alongside complementary products sold through distributors, mass market stores and e-commerce retailers. Checkpoint is a leading developer of RF and RFID based technology systems for loss prevention and inventory management applications, including labeling and tagging solutions, for the retail and apparel industries worldwide. Innovia is a leading global producer of specialty, high-performance, multi-layer, surface-engineered films for label, packaging and security applications. The Company is partly backward integrated into materials science with capabilities in polymer extrusion, adhesive development, coating & lamination, surface engineering and metallurgy, deployed as needed across the four business segments.

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