Customer Service Team Leader in Slough

About The Role

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure. This role will be within our demand management and network infrastructure team. We look after 60 million meters and our teams provide advanced metering solutions to help manage demand for essential suppliers.

What will you be doing?

• As our Customer Service Team Leader you’ll be based in Langley, Berkshire. This hybrid role offers the opportunity to manage customer service teams within our Smart Metering Contracts, supporting smart meter installation, maintenance, and replacement.
• You’ll be at the forefront of driving operational excellence and customer satisfaction across multiple contracts, with the flexibility to move between projects when required.
• Lead, motivate, and develop a team of Customer Service Advisors (CSAs) to deliver outstanding customer experiences across multiple contracts.
• Ensure day-to-day operational effectiveness of the contact centre, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
• Produce, analyse, and interpret operational and customer data using Salesforce and Excel; build and maintain dashboards to track key performance indicators.
• Prepare and deliver reports and presentations for internal and external stakeholders using PowerPoint.
• Attend weekly client meetings, presenting departmental performance, insights, and recommendations.
• Monitor and manage team performance against contractual SLAs, KPIs, and customer satisfaction metrics.
• Oversee call quality monitoring, coaching, and performance management to drive continuous improvement.
• Support the implementation of new processes and best practices across contracts.
• Demonstrate flexibility to work with multiple contracts and adapt to changing business requirements.
• Ensure accurate data entry and compliance with administrative and clerical processes.

We welcome experienced leaders from all sectors who are passionate about customer service and team development. If you’re ready to lead with purpose, drive positive change, and make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience in a Team Leader or management role within a contact centre or customer service environment.
• Strong knowledge of customer service principles and practices.
• Advanced proficiency in Salesforce reporting and dashboard creation.
• Excellent Excel skills, including data analysis and visualisation.
• Proficient in PowerPoint for professional presentations.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to present confidently to clients and senior stakeholders.
• Experience working in a contractor/client relationship environment.
• Flexible and adaptable, able to move between contracts and support diverse client needs.

Additional Information:

• Hybrid role: remote/office based as required with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week.
• Average 45 hours a week, Monday-Friday shifts between 8am and 8pm, and one Saturday in every four weeks, between 8am-1pm. Overtime at agreed rate.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:

• Matched or contributory pension scheme.
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
• Employee assistance programme.
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000s of retail discounts.
• Life assurance.
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave.
• Reward and recognition scheme.
• Private health care for you plus health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Recommend a friend get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• Personal Accident Cover.

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs. Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet. We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations. We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life.

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development. It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.