Customer Service Supervisor

Position

The Customer Supervisor is an operational frontline critical role where you will have delegated responsibility for front‑line customer service team members. You will coordinate a variety of factors across several areas of the Passenger team, including check‑in, boarding gate, airport lounges, passenger meet and greet, mishandled baggage and PRM handling. You will allocate team members on shift, oversee safe on‑time departure of aircraft and hold team members accountable.

You will lead, motivate and inspire all team members to ensure delivery of great customer experiences in line with Swissport procedures, policies and brand values.

• Lead by example in order to ensure we deliver consistently great customer experiences at every touchpoint.
• Ensure available resources are used to the optimum level (monitor and control overtime payments).
• Support and identify training needs and where required train, coach and mentor the team.
• Create & maintain a progressive, open feedback culture by managing the performance of employees.
• Ensure the strict implementation of the Customer Services budget.
• Resolve all customer service challenges in a timely manner and assist in negotiations with new customers. Strict implementation of Passenger Service budget such as overtime spend and sickness policy.
• Ensure compliance with all SOPs and policies in order to meet or exceed regulatory standards and deliver the desired customer service experience.
• Ensure all safety and security processes and procedures are always complied with.
• Ensure compliance with all Uniform & PPE Requirements.
• Hold Team Briefings.
• Conduct and provide team feedback as and when needed.
• Manage and contribute towards change within the operational environment and maintain commercial awareness in identifying new business opportunities.
• Coordinate return to work paperwork for sick team members.
• Conduct and complete QHSE inspections and audits as required.
• Effectively work with station managers to support the reduction of attrition in the workplace. Ensure good daily communication with the airport authorities and to achieve our airport AOL goals.
• Complete other duties as assigned.

• Provide professional day‑to‑day leadership to a team, ensuring the highest standards of health and safety, quality, customer service and security are met and maintained.
• Demonstrate a personal commitment to rigorously enforcing appropriate standards of health, safety and security, in order to ensure performance improves year on year.
• Actively manage your team members ensuring that every member receives timely, appropriate feedback, in order to improve day‑to‑day performance and behaviour.
• Act as a role model to staff, by tackling poor performance or misconduct whenever it occurs.
• Take a pro‑active approach to support the operation to best effect in all cases.
• Take personal responsibility to ensure that the team delivers the appropriate service on every occasion, in order to reduce health and safety incidents and always provide a consistent service to customers.
• Communicate and collaborate to engage others.
• Create transparency to drive results.

• Health and Safety
• Accuracy of travel document checks
• Airline KPI’s
• Safe and on‑time performance
• Roster vs Timesheet allowance (breaks and team members leaving on time)

• Accept and embrace change as a constant and unpredictable feature of your working environment.
• Communicate clearly with your people to help them understand Swissport Western Europe direction.
• Build positive and trusting relationships.
• Be open to different opinions and seek a collaborative approach.
• Embrace an ideas culture to enable teams to create an agile edge.
• Promote flexibility, adaptability and agility to enable contingency time.
• Demonstrate a sense of urgency and a desire to improve the delivery of services and a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Maintain personal and professional integrity of the highest order.
• Excellent organisational abilities, attention to detail, able to prioritise workloads and work effectively to deadlines in a fast‑paced complex environment.

• Experience working in aviation, ideally in an airside operational role.
• Flexible to work on various shifts (days, evening, nights, weekends, and holidays).
• Prepared to undertake active supervision within three months of being appointed into role.
• Fluent spoken and written English (additional languages beneficial).
• A desire to lead and develop other teams and team members.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Other

Airlines and Aviation