Job For Bilingual Travel Advisor at Jumia Nigeria, 7th February, 2019

Jumia is the leading pan-Africa e-commerce platform. Founded in 2012, Jumia’s mission is to improve the quality of everyday life in Africa by leveraging technology to deliver innovative, convenient and affordable online services to consumers, while helping businesses grow as they use our platform to reach and serve consumers. Jumia Travel is a hotel/flights booking website that provides travellers with the perfect place/flight they need at the best price from more than 25,000 hotels in Africa and more than 200,000 hotels around the world. We are currently recruiting to fill the position below:     Job Title: Bilingual Travel Advisor (Jumia - Travel) Location: Lagos, Nigeria Job type: Full Time Department: Customer Service Job Description

• We are currently looking for talented people with a passion for emerging markets and Africa to join our team and embark on our exciting journey.

• Be part of the Bilingual (French) team that represents Jumia Travel as the top hotel booking, flight booking and travel portal.

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with hotel’s staff
• Completion of service reports by collecting and reporting on call log information
• Managing daily targets and tracking progress with tool such as Excel, Google Spreadsheet and various ticketing systems
• Building and leading cross-functional teams-able to anticipate and deliver solutions to client issues.
• Respond to customer questions in a timely manner either via phone, email and chat.
• Attract potential customers by answering questions/suggesting information about our products and services
• Include a sale speech in every interaction with customer and contact proactively customers to increase bookings
• Resolve product or service problems by clarifying the customer's complaint; determining the cause of the problem; selecting and explaining the best solution to solve the problem; expediting correction or adjustment; following up to ensure resolution
• Challenge and influence hotel to improve service level and operational standards

• Strong communication skills in English and French.
• Proficiency in other local languages will be an advantage.
• The ideal candidate will have strong sales skills and will be customer obsessed.
• Tasks require a strong attention to detail and ability to work under tight deadlines .
• A graduate from an accredited university.
• Minimum of 4 years working experience in the travel industry.

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures