Customer Service Advisor

Prevent Group; Walsall; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading equipment rental provider as a Customer Service Advisor, where your role will be pivotal in delivering exceptional service and building strong customer relationships. You'll be part of a dynamic team, handling inquiries and managing orders while utilizing your communication skills to upsell and enhance customer satisfaction. This forward-thinking company values its employees and offers a flexible rewards package, including generous holidays, life assurance, and a great pension scheme. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about customer service, this is the opportunity for you to shine and grow in your career.

Benefits

Generous Holiday Allowance

Life Assurance

Retail Discount Scheme

Employee Recognition Awards

Company Pension Scheme

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Customer Service role, preferably handling inbound sales enquiries.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage and build relationships.

Responsibilities

• Deliver best-in-class service while managing customer inquiries and orders.
• Build relationships with customers and manage daily deliveries and collections.

Skills

Customer Service Experience

Exceptional Communication Skills

Negotiation and Influencing

Product Knowledge Development

Computer Literacy in MS Office

Team Collaboration

Adaptability in Fast-Paced Environment

Continuous Improvement Commitment

Tools

MS Office

Job description

About The Role

CUSTOMER SERVICES - IT’S A PEOPLE THING

Are you someone who can start a conversation in an empty room? One of those people who always manages to get things done, no matter how much there is to do? If the answer is yes and yes, there’s a place in our Customer Service team for you.

It’s not about what you know. It’s who you are. As a Customer Service Advisor, you’ll be doing one of the most important jobs in our business looking after our customers. Which means building relationships, getting to know what they do, how they do it, and most importantly, how we can help them do it better.

In this role, you will be working in the customer contact centre dealing with major customers where you'll be responsible for delivering a best-in-class service whilst using product knowledge and expertise to maximise upselling opportunities. Your days will be spent communicating with customers on the telephone, via email, and responding to website requests. Delivering optimum customer service through effective management of inbound and outbound calls to our regional customers, based from one of our customer offices.

You’ll manage an order from enquiry to post-hire feedback, taking ownership of the customer journey and building relationships with regular customers. It will also be your role to manage daily deliveries and collections within the depot. Naturally, you will be a great co-ordinator, who enjoys planning and organising and working in a busy but friendly team environment.

What can we offer you in return? You’ll be joining a highly successful FTSE100 company, the UK’s largest equipment rental provider. We provide an industry-leading flexible rewards package including generous holiday allowance (with the opportunity to buy and sell annual leave), life assurance, retail discount scheme, employee recognition awards, and a great Company pension scheme.

About You

If you join the team we’ll provide you with everything you need and ensure you are equipped for success. We’ll talk to you about your training and personal development needs and what you’d like to do to further your career and support your future aspirations.

To succeed in this role you will bring the following skill-set and behaviours:

• Proven experience in a Customer Service role, preferably handling inbound order/sales enquiries
• Experience in developing and utilising product knowledge, eager to understand our product range and the wider Sunbelt business
• Exceptional communication skills including negotiating and influencing. You’ll have the ability to engage and build relationships with both internal and external customers
• Comfortable using your own judgment and initiative to make decisions in line with our company policies and pricing structures
• An effective team member with a highly supportive, collaborative approach
• A flexible and adaptable approach, you’ll enjoy a varied work day in a fast-paced operational environment where you’ll manage multiple tasks, deadlines, and targets whilst maintaining high standards of accuracy
• A commitment to continuous improvement, puts forward and acts on suggestions to improve processes and service levels
• A good level of computer literacy in MS Office packages. You’ll embrace learning new IT systems and enjoy making the most of technology in your job role

About Us

Sunbelt Rentals is the leader in equipment rentals in the UK, Ireland, US, and Canada - as well as specialist operations in Europe. We provide a range of solutions to every market and sector, including construction, industrial, energy, infrastructure, government, and events. Our teams make the impossible possible and the unthinkable doable. Turning what if into what is.

Our people are at the heart of our values and they’re our greatest asset. We rely on you to look after our customers so in return, we take good care of you. We recognise the value and uniqueness of our team-mates and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive Sunbelt Rentals, providing equality of opportunity and a culture of fairness and respect.

Your health, safety, and wellbeing are really important to us. We’re raising awareness and providing support through initiatives such as our mental health awareness campaign and first-aider programme. You’ll also be able to access a 24-7 employee assistance helpline, counselling services, and financial wellbeing support.