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Garima Bangale

Garima Bangale

Business Team Manager, Sales And BA Holidays
Gurgaon

Summary

Experienced professional with a strong background in the travel and airline industry, specializing in online product development and strategy. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive the creation, enhancement, and deployment of Web & Mobile products and services. Demonstrated expertise in translating business requirements into technical specifications, leading project lifecycles, and ensuring successful implementation. Proven ability to identify customer pain-points and opportunities for optimization, supported by exceptional analytical and reporting skills. Possess strong leadership, communication, and critical thinking abilities to effect positive change and delivery within fast-paced environments.

Work History

Business Team Manager, Sales and BA Holidays

British Airways
Gurgaon
2 2014 - Current
  • Contributed to the development and growth of online sales, leveraging opportunities to enhance conversion rates and differentiate products across various channels.
  • Played a key role in defining technical specifications and designs for flight, ground products, and ancillary products, collaborating effectively with departments, business, and stakeholders.
  • Led the team to reach the targets for online and offline teams, social media team, Web & Mobile products and services and to strategies BA Holidays objectives.
  • Managed the end-to-end product lifecycle, from planning to deployment, ensuring seamless coordination between various departments to optimize product utilization and achieve departmental online targets.
  • Managed the end-to-end product lifecycle, from planning to deployment and executing to ensure seamless coordination between various departments to optimize product and maximize revenue.
  • Provided comprehensive support on analytics and reporting, translating insights into actionable strategies for optimizing current and future products in alignment with company's vision.
  • Coordinated with Revenue Optimization, Corporate Communications, Finance, Customer Relations, and IT teams to identify online customer issues and enhance E-Commerce processes and systems
  • Contributed to the development and growth of online and offline sales, leveraging opportunities to enhance conversion rates and differentiate products across various channels. Providing training and briefings to the team.
  • Transformed business requirements into detailed functional and technical product specifications, overseeing delivery from IT and service providers, and managed business implementation plans through all channels including B2B and B2C sites.
  • Demonstrated strong project management skills, effectively balancing collaboration, negotiation, and influencing skills to drive projects forward.
  • Showcased exceptional leadership, communication, and critical thinking skills, fostering a positive attitude within the team and enabling the delivery of results in a dynamic and challenging environment.
  • Embraced an agile and innovative mindset, adapting to ever-changing industry and circumstances and driving meaningful change within a fast-paced setting.

Holiday Expert

Make My Trip
Gurgaon
1 2013 - 1 2014
  • Networking with tour operators in customizing different holiday packages.
  • Providing travel information to clients. Being amicable and approachable to customers.
  • Managing customer issues, negotiating with the price quote, providing solutions which included comprehensive industry knowledge.
  • Displaying promotional material and providing them to the customers.
  • Preparing quotations and designing and customizing the holiday package as per individual customer requirements.
  • Booking hotel rooms and blocking airline seats.
  • Distributing travel itinerary to the clients, meeting deadlines, providing them with complete details of package beforehand.

Flight Supervisor, Airport Operations

Emirates Airlines
Gurgaon
4 2006 - 9 2010
  • Leading/Supervising a team of travel professionals committed in the endeavor to provide the best quality and value travel services to our passengers.
  • Knowledge of airport operations.
  • Ensure on-time departure of the flight, safely and securely.
  • Taking care of boarding procedure, offloading, flight close out, coordinating with flight dispatcher with offloading of baggage and flight release.
  • Deploying available Emirates resources to best advantage in order to satisfy passenger and operational requirements arising during each duty period.
  • Ensuring that Ground Handling Agent and other suppliers are fully briefed regarding EK requirements and that they deliver them in a timely and efficient manner so that the service handling proceeds smoothly, and Emirates passengers expectations are met or exceeded.
  • Conducted departure and arrival briefings.
  • Implemented and enforced safety policies and procedures, confirming compliance with regulations.

Customer Service Executive

Emirates Airlines
Dubai
4 2004 - 4 2006
  • Make recommendations to the Customer Affairs Manager to improve service shortfalls to regain customer confidence in order to ensure repeat business and sustain the growth of Emirates Group.
  • Making all reservations for disruptive passengers and change of itinerary and travel bookings.
  • Recommend appropriate compensation and manage the file to a successful resolution (including written responses to customers).
  • Ensure all communication with customers are within service level agreements i.e. communicate to the passenger keeping them informed of progress through to resolution within agreed departmental deadlines. Send appropriate interim replies if full details are not available and the investigation is ongoing, so that the passenger is aware of the status of the complaint
  • Investigate with the concerned departments system wide to determine the cause of the complaint.
  • Audit the outcome of the complaint and investigation process and update CRIS, the Customer Affairs electronic database, stating the level of compensation or goodwill gesture offered
  • Make recommendations for service, procedural and policy improvement to the Customer Affairs Management and assist with the change process as directed
  • Discuss complaints of a sensitive nature with Customer Affairs Manager and obtain the required feedback.
  • Provided company information and policies to customers upon inquiry and answered questions via phone, email, or online chat.
  • Developed working relationships with internal and external customers while assisting with account management duties.

Education

Post Graduate - Business Management

YMCA

Bachelor Of Commerce - Commerce

Delhi University

IATA - Tourism

IITC

Skills

Strategic account developmentundefined

Accomplishments

  • Received Performance Award for showing excellent performance at Transfer desk as Transfer Desk Team Leader in Emirates.
  • Received a NAJM award for excellent customer service, Emirates.
  • Awarded a performance award for excellent performance in a month, Emirates.
  • Received appreciation letter from Airport Manager British Airways for excellent customer service during flight delays.
  • Received Top sales performer – British Airways, for the whole year award with highest contribution for overall revenue generation.
  • Excellence Award for best team manager of the year

Timeline

Business Team Manager, Sales and BA Holidays

British Airways
2 2014 - Current

Holiday Expert

Make My Trip
1 2013 - 1 2014

Flight Supervisor, Airport Operations

Emirates Airlines
4 2006 - 9 2010

Customer Service Executive

Emirates Airlines
4 2004 - 4 2006

Post Graduate - Business Management

YMCA

Bachelor Of Commerce - Commerce

Delhi University

IATA - Tourism

IITC
Garima BangaleBusiness Team Manager, Sales And BA Holidays