At a Glance
- Tasks: Handle customer complaints via phone and email, ensuring top-notch service.
- Company: Join a dynamic customer service team focused on excellence.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, supportive work environment, and career growth opportunities.
- Other info: Flexible hours and a chance to work with innovative AI tools.
- Why this job: Make a real difference by resolving customer issues and enhancing their experience.
- Qualifications: Strong communication skills and a passion for customer care required.
The predicted salary is between 25000 - 30000 £ per year.
Overview
Reporting to: Customer Service Manager
Department: Customer Service
About the role
We’re looking for someone who is passionate about offering the highest level of customer service including taking ownership when talking to customers over the phone and by email. You will be tasked to resolve customer complaints across multiple lines of business including Travel Insurance, Roadside Assistance, Home Emergency.
Hours
Thirty-five hours per week, Monday to Friday between the hours of 8am and 6pm. These hours may vary in line with business needs.
What you will do
- Answer inbound customer calls and emails as per the daily schedule.
- Handle difficult conversations in a sensitive and professional manner with customers over the telephone.
- Record all complaints accurately on to the complaint management system, in line with FCA timescales and department SLAs, including keeping a log of all activity with comprehensive and accurate notes.
- Ownership of complaint casework, including but not limited to:
- Ensuring that customers are responded to in a timely manner.
- Complaints are fully investigated, working with other parties where required.
- Making decisions to fully resolve the customer complaint with a focus on quality.
- Work in an organised fashion to ensure productivity and effective case management.
- Write customer facing letters, including a ‘Final Response Letter’ when closing a complaint.
- Work to ensure that the highest level of service is consistently delivered to the customer.
- Achieve individual productivity and quality targets and SLA’s set by your manager.
- Adhere to TCF, DPA, and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) guidelines, specifically dispute resolution (DISP), expanding to new Consumer Duty rules and regulations coming in 2023.
- To escalate issues, where appropriate, to the Customer Service Team Manager with recommendations of action to be taken.
- Work effectively in an environment shaped by artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, data, analytics and cloud-based tools, using insights responsibly with our standards of data governance, security and ethical use.
What you will bring
The following are essential:
- Professional appearance in-line with a corporate environment.
- Good standard of general education; English and Maths A-C GCSE or equivalent.
- A proven track record of delivering high standards of customer care in a similar role.
- Experience of dealing with high level customer complaints.
- Excellent letter writing skills, telephone manner and attention to detail.
- Organised with strong administration skills.
- PC literate and well versed in using MS Office packages, such as Word.
- Ability to problem solve autonomously or as part of a team.
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
- Flexible, with the ability to adapt to changing requirements.
- Able to work under pressure in order to meet strict work timescales.
The following attributes are desirable:
- A’ Levels or equivalent.
- Insurance/Motor background experience.
- Dealing with customer complaints.
- Working knowledge of the FCA.
We welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.
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