Customer Service Advisor - Hybrid

Barclays UK; Sunderland; Hybrid; GBP 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial institution as a Customer Service Advisor in Sunderland. You will provide exceptional support to customers, ensuring they feel valued and respected. This role offers a hybrid working environment with a focus on teamwork and personal development. Enjoy a competitive salary and a range of benefits including private medical care and a pension contribution.

Benefits

Private Medical Care

Life Assurance

Pension Contribution

25 Days Holiday Allowance

Discounted Gym

Qualifications

• Strong communication and empathy skills required.
• Ability to educate customers on products and services.

Responsibilities

• Personalising interactions with customers across multiple channels.
• Investigating complex customer queries and complaints.
• Working in a high-paced environment making decisions autonomously.

Skills

Communication

Empathy

Customer Centric Mindset

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Customer Service Advisor
Location – Sunderland
Salary - £23500.00 per annum plus excellent benefits including: Private Medical Care including GP services, Life assurance covering x8 times basic salary, Pension Contribution up to 12%, 25 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays, with the option of buying or selling 5 days per year, plus many more benefits

Shift Pattern - Working 5 days out of 7, rotating shift patterns between 7am and 11pm Monday – Sunday.

As a Barclays Customer Care Colleague, you will be the first point of contact for our customers - and right now our customers need us more than ever. You will work within one of our dedicated teams providing support and guidance to each customer, giving that personal touch to ensure they feel valued and respected. We are looking for individuals who have empathy, understanding, and who are passionate about delivering excellent customer service. In return we will provide you with all the training and tools you need to be truly successful in your role as a Customer Care Colleague. We are looking for those individuals who have the potential to prosper, you don’t need banking experience just a can-do approach.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

We are implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month, or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally can request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?
• Working as one team across multiple channels, you will personalise each interaction with a customer, providing support and outcomes to best suit their needs
• Fulfilling customer requests whilst demonstrating professionalism and empathy to ensure they feel valued
• Demonstrating knowledge of our processes/policies to ensure that customers feel confident in our colleagues, and knowing when to escalate where appropriate
• Educating our customers on a range of products and services as well as the different channels they can utilize to engage with us directly
• Investigating emotive and complex customer and client queries, concerns and complaints related to an extensive range of products
• Understanding a customer’s financial position through listening to customer’s specific circumstances and tailoring the relevant solution to their needs
• Working in a high paced environment reviewing relevant information and making decisions and actions autonomously

What we’re looking for
• Strong communication and empathy skills, with the ability to use a range of communication styles to provide a personal approach
• Proven ability to use Microsoft Office to a high standard
• The ability to educate our customers on a range of products and services
• A genuine passion for helping others with a customer centric mindset

Skills that will help you in the role:
• Ability to work seamlessly as part of a team but also to their own initiative
• Experience in Retail Banking is desired but not essential, as we are looking for people that are passionate about customer service

Where you will be working?
With over 1,700 employees, our Flagship Site, Doxford Park, offers many facilities including a discounted gym, the convenience of an ATM and even a Personal Banker who visits regularly to assist all employees with their banking.

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