Guest Experience Zone Lead

1 week ago

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Vancouver Airport Authority Full time

YVR is a place of connection, bringing together people, places and cargo while ensuring a safe and efficient experience for everyone.

The Guest Experience team plays an integral part in delivering an outstanding airport experience, while also ensuring key areas of our airport's operation are supported.

We believe that people travelling at YVR are our guests, not customers or passengers, because we know YVR is a place of welcome and connection.


Our Guest Experience team's purpose is simple:
to do our very best for every person we meet.

Position overview
Are you passionate for service and helping others? Are you a proactive problem-solver who loves working with people? Do you believe we can elevate a traveller's experience at YVR by going above and beyond their expectations? Do you enjoy a dynamic work environment where no two days are the same? Are you keen to take a leadership role to provide a smooth and efficient passenger process at YVR?


As a
Guest Experience Zone Lead, you will provide daily leadership to deliver an outstanding guest experience in key operational locations at YVR.

You will take initiative and seek to find opportunities to elevate the guest experience, while also delivering operational zone plans, reviewing real-time data to best anticipate operational needs.


Key responsibilities include:

  • Proactively support and assist guests to deliver a remarkable guest experience
  • Lead and dispatch zone teams to support key operational areas, processes and guest experience
  • Delivering Zone Plans to anticipate and meet passenger demand and mitigate risks
  • Providing business support to all terminal areas, as required
  • Liaising and collaborating with Guest Experience Supervisors, Airport Operations, airlines, tenants and agency partners to anticipate operational demands and deliver a seamless travel experience
  • Provide leadership and support for Guest Experience Representatives positioned in operational zones

Key qualifications include:

  • Exceptional customer service and problemsolving skills supplemented by the completion of at least one year of postsecondary education; or an equivalent combination of training and experience
  • Ability to lead a team
  • Proven ability to resolve conflicts in emergency and high stress environments, while handling customer concerns in a positive and empathetic manner
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to utilize data to make key decisions
  • Good knowledge of airport operations processes and key stakeholders
  • Strong technological skills including using Microsoft Suite (Teams, Outlook, SharePoint)
  • Fluency in another language, preferably French, is considered a strong asset

Who We Are
YVR is more than just an airport. We connect our beautiful province and all it has to offer to the world.

We are all leaders and trailblazers for change and innovation, so no matter the department or team you're a part of, the work you do matters.

At YVR, we are flexible in everything we do. We will work together to find ways to deliver customer excellence that helps us all thrive. We strive to provide an environment that reflects the diversity of our communities, allowing us to better serve them.

Join us on this journey as we continue to transform our airport to better serve our communities.

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