Car Rental Customer Service – Reservations Coordinator

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Remote coordinator handling customer enquiries, quotes, and bookings for Buddle’s car rental client. Managing phone, email, and reservation systems while supporting Australian operations.

Responsibilities:

  • Respond promptly and professionally to customer enquiries via email, phone, and Checkit
  • Provide clear and helpful information about the client's car rental services
  • Assist customers with rental quotes, availability, and general queries
  • Guide customers through the booking process and convert enquiries into confirmed bookings
  • Recommend relevant additional rental products and services based on customer needs
  • Monitor and respond to after-hours customer enquiries and address urgent matters promptly
  • Ensure non-urgent enquiries are followed up by the onshore team when required
  • Use Rental Car Manager and Checkit to manage enquiries, update information, and maintain accurate booking and customer records
  • Follow up open quotes and customer enquiries to prevent lost bookings
  • Liaise with the onshore team to escalate enquiries or issues and ensure smooth handovers
  • Suggest process improvements
  • Contribute to team efforts and perform related duties as assigned
  • Potentially provide additional administrative and customer support across the client's other automotive businesses

Requirements:

  • Previous experience in customer service, sales support, reservations, bookings, or a similar customer-facing role
  • Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
  • Confidence speaking with customers over the phone, with clear spoken English and ability to build rapport and guide conversations toward a booking
  • Strong customer service skills
  • Comfortable handling sales conversations and upselling additional products or services
  • Commercially minded, balancing customer service and conversion of enquiries into bookings
  • Highly responsive and able to prioritise customer enquiries, particularly time-sensitive requests
  • Excellent organisational and time-management skills
  • Strong attention to detail when handling customer and booking information
  • Ability to work independently in a remote environment and take ownership of tasks
  • Confidence using computer systems and ability to quickly learn new software and processes
  • Experience in car rental, travel, tourism, hospitality, reservations, or another service-based industry would be an advantage
  • Experience using Rental Car Manager, Checkit, or similar booking/reservation management software would be highly regarded

Benefits:

  • Health insurance
  • Internet allowance
  • KPI incentive program
  • Fortnightly virtual happy hour
  • Annual group offsites