Customer Experience Consultant | S1 | Retail Banking | Bournemouth

Banco Santander SA; England; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary plus bonus

Holiday entitlement

Pension

Healthcare benefits

Employee discounts

Volunteer opportunities

Job summary

Santander UK is seeking a Customer Experience Consultant at Bournemouth Branch. This 35-hour-per-week role operates on a rota basis, Monday to Saturday, 8am–6pm. You will greet customers, listen to their needs, and help with banking transactions and technology, providing a multi-skilled service in a friendly branch environment.

You’ll be flexible, cross-skilled and able to adapt to varied tasks, embracing innovation and collaboration as you contribute to an evolving customer-centric mission.

Qualifications

• Experience listening to and understanding customer needs.
• Ability to present options across banking products with a digital-first focus.
• Experience handling customer calls in a contact centre setting.

Responsibilities

• Listening to, understanding and anticipating customers financial needs.
• Presenting options and solutions across a range of products with a digital-first approach.
• Answering customer calls into the contact centre.
• Developing meaningful relationships with customers and colleagues for day-to-day and long-term needs.
• Helping make Santander a bank that is simple for customers and colleagues to deal with.

Skills

Listening to customers

Digital banking

Call handling

Relationship building

Fraud awareness

Job description

Job Title

Customer Experience Consultant | S1 | Retail Banking | Bournemouth Country: United Kingdom

IT STARTS HERE Santander (www.santander.com) is evolving from a global, high-impact brand into a technology-driven organisation, and our people are at the heart of this journey. Together, we are driving a customer-centric transformation that values bold thinking, innovation, and the courage to challenge what’s possible. This is more than a strategic shift. It’s a chance for driven professionals to grow, learn, and make a real difference. Our mission is to contribute to help more people and businesses prosper. We embrace a strong risk culture and all our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management. Retail & Commercial Banking is a global business integrating all our retail and commercial banking activities to better serve our customers, improve efficiency and drive value creation.

Role

Santander is looking for a Customer Experience Consultant based out of Bournemouth Branch, working 35 hours per week, on a rota’d basis Monday to Saturday, between 8am & 6pm.

For our customers, you’ll be more than just the friendly face and voice of Santander. You’ll be a listener and problem solver. Whether you’re helping someone with a simple cash transaction, aiding them with technology in the banking hall, transacting with them over the phone or protecting your customers against fraud and scams, you’ll never know what the next challenge will be. Life in a branch can be busy, varied and challenging, so we’re a close-knit team. You’ll be totally flexible in your approach and comfortable in undertaking a broad range of activities. This means not limiting your time and focus on one particular element of your role. You’ll thrive on the variety this gives you and take satisfaction for operating in a multi-skilled environment. You’re the eyes and ears of our business after all. We’re shaping the way we work through innovation, cutting-edge technology, collaboration and the freedom to explore new ideas.

Key Responsibilities

• Listening to, understanding and anticipating customers financial needs
• Presenting options and solutions across a range of products and services with a primary focus on digital first
• Answering customer calls into our contact centre
• Developing meaningful relationships with customers, and working with colleagues to look after their day-to-day and long-term needs
• Helping us be a bank that’s simple for colleagues and customers to deal with

Essential Experience

• Listening to, understanding and anticipating customers financial needs (Required)
• Presenting options and solutions across a range of products and services with a primary focus on digital first (Required)
• Answering customer calls into our contact centre (Required)
• Developing meaningful relationships with customers, and working with colleagues to look after their day-to-day and long-term needs (Required)
• Helping us be a bank that’s simple for colleagues and customers to deal with (Required)

Preferred Experience

• A real desire to go above-and-beyond for customers (Preferred)
• Effective team working skills with a flexible, can-do approach to work (Preferred)
• Openness to a broad range of activities, even if outside of business expectations (Preferred)
• Ability to grow, adapt and change accommodating business needs and priorities (Preferred)

Benefits

• The starting salary is £25,158 together with a £500 flexible benefit allowance and the opportunity to earn a discretionary performance-related bonus of 8% of salary.
• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 26 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates. Including: medical insurance, dental insurance, and health assessments.
• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.
• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.
• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services.
• Competitive rewards that reflect the real impact you make and the value you bring.
• Wellbeing that goes beyond work — we work with a range of wellbeing partners across our 4 pillars of wellbeing (physical, mental, social and financial) to give you access to a suite of apps, discounted gym and fitness access, weekly online classes, flexible healthcare and mental health support.
• Support for every life stage — from menopause and pregnancy to parenthood and beyond, with enhanced family leave, childcare options and tailored wellbeing support.
• Time to give back through volunteering opportunities that let you make a difference in the communities we serve.
• Global growth opportunities to shape your career, learn new skills and explore what’s possible across our international network.

Local compliance

At Santander, we’re proud to be an inclusive organisation that provides equal opportunities for everyone — regardless of age, gender, disability, civil status, race, religion or sexual orientation. We’re committed to creating a recruitment experience that’s accessible, fair and welcoming for all candidates. We want our people to thrive — at work and at home — while delivering the best outcomes for our customers and supporting each other to grow.

Right to work in the UK

All candidates must have the right to work in the UK to commence employment with Santander.