About the Role
AAA Western and Central New York seeks dedicated individuals who demonstrate compassion, empathy, and unsurpassed service to provide members with a totally satisfying experience. Our mission is to be our members’ most trusted provider of high quality automotive, travel, insurance and other relevant products and services.
Responsibilities
- Provide domestic and international travel assistance, including reservations for hotel, car, flights, cruises, tours, AAA Group Travel, TripTik® requests and travel insurance.
- Conduct timely outbound calls for event inquiries, reconnect opportunities, marketing-generated leads, and other assigned outreach.
- Assist members in exploring travel options by identifying their needs, offering suitable recommendations, and guiding them through the planning process.
- Build relationships with members through outbound engagement, networking, referrals, and community interactions.
- Handle inbound travel sales and service inquiries across phone, email, and virtual channels.
- Use Salesforce CRM to manage leads, make calls, log activities, update milestones, and ensure all transactions are fully documented.
- Maintain accurate CRM data for member interactions and travel transactions.
- Identify and correct CRM data errors.
- Follow Salesforce workflows for reporting and forecasting accuracy.
- Identify and resolve CRM issues such as duplicates or missing information.
- Prevent, identify, and resolve booking errors and data inaccuracies.
- Collaborate with internal teams to resolve system or workflow challenges.
- Provide high-quality, personalized travel support via phone, email, and virtual appointments.
- Assist members with travel disruptions and changes, delivering timely and effective solutions.
- Maintain a positive, professional, solutions-focused approach.
- Respond promptly to member and customer inquiries across phone, email, and virtual channels.
- Meet or exceed departmental standards related to schedule adherence, productivity, and answer rate.
- Promote AAA Club products and services using a member-first consultative approach.
- Sell AAA memberships to meet or exceed goals.
- Manage membership leads in Salesforce with accurate documentation.
- Handle overflow membership calls through the phone queue.
Requirements
- Strong customer service skills with the ability to support Membership growth and contribute to overall team productivity while developing foundational travel sales knowledge.
- Proficiency in Salesforce CRM for lead management, activity logging, and maintaining high-quality, accurate data.
- Demonstrated experience with outbound calling, including high-volume outreach and lead conversion.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build rapport quickly.
- Familiarity with AAA products, membership structure, and Club service offerings.
- Ability to use travel booking platforms (e.g., GDS, vendor portals, online booking engines).
- Strong customer service skills with a focus on problem-solving and creating exceptional member experiences.
- Knowledge of domestic and international travel products, suppliers, booking systems, and industry best practices.
- High attention to detail with the ability to identify, correct, and prevent errors in bookings or CRM entries.
- Ability to multitask and manage multiple itineraries, calls, and follow-ups in a fast-paced environment.
- Comfort working in a structured, metric-driven environment with required phone queue time and schedule adherence.
- Ability to navigate multiple computer systems and tools simultaneously.
- High degree of professionalism, integrity, and commitment to AAA standards.
- Ability to perform routine office tasks that includes operating a computer for long periods of time, sitting, filing and communicating on the phone.
- Must be able to lift, carry, push, pull a maximum of 25 lbs.
- This position does not offer visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Skills
- Salesforce CRM
- Outbound calling
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Travel booking platforms
- Problem-solving
- Attention to detail
- Multitasking
- Computer navigation
Salary/Compensations
- $21.10/hr + Incentive Opportunity
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Life and AD&D Insurance
- Flexible work schedules
- Pre-Tax & Roth 401(k) plan with company match
- Health Spending Accounts with company contribution & Flexible Spending Accounts
- Company Paid Short-term & Long-term disability
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement & company-paid training programs
- FREE AAA membership & travel / product discounts
- Paid Volunteer Time Off
About the Company
- At AAA Western and Central New York, our Associates are committed to providing our members with a totally satisfying experience.
- AAA Western and Central New York is regularly recognized as one of the best & healthiest places to work in the WNY & CNY area.
