Event Planner and Travel Specialist

2 weeks ago

Houston, United States TechTrans International Full time

**Event Planner and Travel Specialist**

TechTrans provides language services and travel logistics - language teaching, interpreting, translating, travel coordination and much more. We have offices, staff, and clients across the world.

We are seeking a Full-Time **Event Planner and Travel Specialist** **for our Clear Lake/Houston, Texas office (77058) who is highly organized, able to work at a fast pace, has excellent customer service and people skills, and is able to execute international events.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Provide excellent customer service on demand. Immediate and continual communication with the customer is expected throughout all phases of event support.
- Ability to find vendors in different countries, develop responsible and dependable relationships, establish favorable pricing and terms, vetting, enrolling and paying them.
- Specialists are trained together to work independently, with guidance when needed.
- Specialists are equipped with contract and pricing knowledge to provide the customer with timely estimates for services requests. They then engage the appropriate vendors, establish the budget and timeline for service delivery, obtain the customer’s approval, and coordinate event implementation. Managing change is expected. For the close out of completed events Logistics Specialists pay the vendors and provide accounting with a detailed trip summary report ready for customer billing.
- Specialists are always finding the most cost effective, timely, and quality solutions, and provide the customer team with layouts and itineraries detailing timelines and contact information for all services to ensure requirements are satisfied and focused on mission success.
- Specialists will learn the necessary contract pricing and terms, as well as government and country-specific travel, safety, and related logistics rules and regulations.
- Specialists perform special projects for the company at-large, often involving pricing exercises, building up our vendor base, as well as support for other bids and proposals.

**Qualifications and Requirements**:

- Strong customer service orientation which may also require communication and actions outside of normal business hours.
- International competency and internet research savviness.
- Familiarity with Federal Travel Regulations (FTR) is required.
- Excellent organization skills, ability to work independently, and backup team members.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Placement agencies and outside recruiters need not respond._

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