Customer Service Advisor

WATES; Manchester; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 28,000; Part time

Job summary

Wates is seeking a Customer Service Advisor to join their team in Manchester on a part-time basis, providing outstanding service to clients and ensuring all queries are handled efficiently. The ideal candidate will be friendly, professional, and passionate about delivering excellent customer service. Full training is provided, making it a great opportunity for someone looking to progress in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Extensive corporate benefits including Pension

Excellent range of learning and development activities

Industry leading family leave benefits

Qualifications

• Tenacious and results-oriented
• Confident and efficient on the phone
• Great at prioritizing tasks

Responsibilities

• Delivering outstanding customer service to clients and contractors.
• Managing emails and phone calls, dealing with inquiries.
• Updating systems and managing business-critical issues daily.

Skills

Customer service

IT literacy

Communication

Multi-tasking

Job description

The Vacancy

Customer Service Advisor

Are you providing amazing customer service in your current role but ready for the next step?

We are currently recruiting for a Customer Service Advisor to join our fabulous team on a permanent, part time basis 2 days a week Monday and a Friday only. We’re looking for someone who has a passion for delivering outstanding customer service whilst being professional and friendly at all times!

It’d be amazing (but not essential) if you have previous experience of working on an FM Helpdesk in a busy environment because this is what you’ll be doing:

•Delivering great customer service to our clients and contractors

•Building outstanding working relationships with our clients, contractors and other functions within the business

•Managing emails and phone calls

•Dealing with enquiries from clients and contractors

•Supporting clients and contractors with any queries

•Assigning jobs to contractors within an agreed time frame

•Chasing up jobs that have not been accepted/attended to

•Managing and updating business-critical issues daily

•Updating systems to ensure complete transparency

•Ensuring that maintenance work is processed in a timely manner

•Communicating with contractors daily, to minimise overdue work

•Challenging unnecessary call-outs and response times

•Working closely with site managers and engineers to ensure a one-team approach to management of maintenance issues

•Operating and being measured against business KPIs

•Demonstrating professionalism at all times

This particular position will involve the raising and administration of a high volume of quoted works so if that is a process you are familiar with then please apply!

To be successful you’ll need to be:

•Tenacious and results orientated

•IT literate

•Confident, efficient and reassuring on the phone

•Great at prioritising and multi-tasking

•Friendly and professional

•Looking for ways we can do things better

•Ambitious and keen to progress

We’ll give you full training as part of your induction as well as the opportunity to make the role your own. You’ll be part of a close, fun team and be fundamental to shaping the future success of Customer Service within Wates FM and of course your own career aspirations!

Wates FM successfully provides Facilities Management services in technically demanding environments, and our portfolio includes some of the UK’s best-known companies, providing stand-alone hard services, planned and reactive maintenance and technically led FM solutions to single and multi-site operations. This is an office based position.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive salary

• Extensive corporate benefits including, Pension 5% employers’ contribution, Holiday’s will be Pro-rata.

• Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression.

• Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 8 weeks fully paid paternity.

To find out more about LIFE AT WATES please click on the following link https://www.wates.co.uk/careers/

We are always looking for a variety of new talent to join our teams, to help us grow and innovate as a business. Although you may not have all the skills listed, many of them may be transferable to other roles within the WATES Group.

If you would like clarity on any of our vacancies, discuss career opportunities in strict confidence or need anything to make our recruitment process easier, please contact our In-House Recruitment Team directly or via [e-mail] and one of us will get in touch as soon as possible.

As a responsible and inclusive employer, we are committed to equality and are proud to have been recognised for this through a range of accolades including gold accreditation with Investors in People, we are also a Disability Confident employer. Being a family owned, business means we understand and value long term relationships.

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.