Customer Relationship Consultant

Skipton Building Society; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent financial institution in Blackburn is looking for a passionate Customer Relationship Consultant. You will engage with customers to understand their needs, offering tailored product information and assistance across various channels. This role requires excellent communication skills, problem-solving ability, and a commitment to customer satisfaction. The position offers competitive pay, benefits, and opportunities for both full-time and part-time work.

Benefits

Annual discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Generous employer matched pension contributions

Access to health and wellbeing benefits

Colleague mortgage and savings accounts

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Experience of interacting with customers, either in person or over the phone.
• Enjoy meeting new people and engaging in purposeful conversation.
• Ability to react fast when busy, handling diverse customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Engage customers to identify needs through detailed conversations.
• Act as first point of contact for customers, providing assistance.
• Conduct 'My Review' appointments face to face or virtually.

Skills

Customer interaction experience

Effective communication

Time management

Problem solving

Teamwork

Job description

Hours:

This role is for a fixed term contract until 31/12/2026.

We are open to both full and part time opportunities to support branch operating hours.

Salary:

£26,750 Per Annum

Closing Date:

Tue, 9 Dec 2025

Job Description

Are you passionate about helping others and providing exceptional customer service?

Would you like to join an organisation that puts its customers at the heart of what they do?

If so, then Skipton Building Society have the perfect opportunity for you! We are recruiting for a Customer Relationship Consultant to work at our Blackburn branch.

The role of Customer Relationship Consultant includes engaging in conversations to find out our customers’ needs, providing information to them about our full savings range, products, and services that we offer. You will also engage with our customers through our ‘My Review’ appointments which is a great opportunity to understand and discuss our customers financial goals in a friendly conversation. By really listening to, and getting to know our customers, you will help them to review their circumstances and what their goals are, whether that be financial, family, retirement, peace of mind or even a new home and through this proactively identify the most appropriate products to suit their needs. All the while providing a straightforward, helpful service that lets your enthusiasm shine through.

Our branches are the heart of our local communities, however increasingly our customers want the flexibility of doing transactions online and engaging with us via our contact centre. In branch we can support our customers face to face, virtually and by outbound contact so we are reaching our customers at relevant times. So, whether you are promoting a new product or resolving a problem, you will always place our customers’ needs at the heart of everything you do and provide a first-class service every time.

For our customers, you will be more than just the friendly face and voice of Skipton Building Society. You will be a listener, a problem solver and in time a fountain of knowledge to help them achieve their financial goals.

Together, you can help us build a better Society!

What Will You Be Doing?

• Engaging, understanding and identifying customer needs through asking great questions, listening to customers specific circumstances and tailoring the relevant solution to their needs whilst ensuring the right outcome for the customer and the society.
• Acting as the first point of contact for customers in branch with enthusiasm and a desire to help our customers.
• Conducting ‘My Review’ customer appointments face to face, virtually or by telephone.
• Proactively contacting our customers over the phone to identify and discuss their needs.
• Educate each customer on a range of products and services as well as the different communication channels they can utilise to engage with us directly.
• Use internal systems to ensure that a customer’s records are accurately maintained and are up to date, whilst ensuring vulnerable customers are identified and supported appropriately.
• Adhere to and understand the appropriate policies, standards, controls and limits of authority applicable to your role, supported by training, coaching and appropriate communication.

What Do We Need From You?

• You will have previous experience of interacting with customers. We’re happy to ‘think outside the box’ of wanting people who have previously worked in a bank or building society before.
• You will enjoy meeting new people and engaging in purposeful conversation.
• The ability to work well alongside others, with a ‘one-team’ mindset.
• The ability to react fast when the day gets busy and handle a wide variety of different customers with excellent time management.
• The desire and ability to grow, adapt and change whilst accommodating business needs and priorities.
• You will be an effective communicators with the ability to influence different audiences using suitable channels for achieving clear outcomes.
• That you are open to a broad range of activities even if outside of standard expectations

Your experience working with customers may be in person or over the phone, either is fine as Skipton’s customers are increasingly looking for flexible ways of engaging with us so your experience in a Contact Centre environment may be just what we’re looking for.

Your experience may be in retail, food & beverage, guests services or even the health/care sector. Whatever your background, if you can demonstrate a passion for delivering exceptional service and going above and beyond we’re happy to consider you.

What Is In It For You?

The role of Customer Relationship Consultant will be a fixed term contract position working up to 36 hours per week (we are open to both full and part time opportunities).

The salaryis £26,750 per annum, depending on experience. Plus a range of benefits which include

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme.
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays and rising 1 day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days after 5 years.
• Holiday trading scheme allowing the ability to buy and sell additional annual leave days.
• Generous employer matched pension contributions – up to 10% per annum.
• We care about your health and wellbeing. You will have access to a benefits portal which includes an Employee Assistance Programme and online employee discount platform (retailers, entertainment, eating out and travel).
• There are always initiatives to get involved with charities with three paid volunteering days for you to use each year.
• Colleague mortgage and savings accounts, as well as a host of colleague discount schemes.
• A commitment to training and development.
• Private medical insurance for all our colleagues.
• Salary Sacrifice Scheme for hybrid/electric car.