Customer Service Manager

Freightserve recruitment; Hounslow; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/hybrid working

Career progression

Job summary

Freightserve recruitment is seeking a Customer Service Manager for a well-established Freight / Courier company in the Heathrow area. This role offers a remote, hybrid working arrangement with office-based duties where required.

You will coach Shift Leaders, manage customer service teams, monitor KPIs, and drive improvements across shifts and locations. A DBS check is required, and a strong background in logistics-focused customer support is essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years in a supervisory or customer service leadership role.
• Experience in logistics, courier or freight environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• 5-year checkable work history with no unaccounted gaps.
• Subject to Basic DBS check.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coach Shift Leaders and develop teams across shifts.
• Oversee performance metrics, SLA compliance and customer satisfaction.
• Act as senior escalation point for complex issues and resolutions.
• Coordinate reporting and drive service improvements with internal teams.
• Ensure SOPs, quality checks and knowledge sharing across locations.

Skills

Customer service management

Team leadership

MS Excel

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Tools

MS Office

Ticketing systems

CRM platforms

Job description

Freightserve recruitment are looking for a Customer Service Manager for a well-established Freight / Courier company. The company is based in the Heathrow area.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach and develop Shift Leaders to ensure consistent leadership, service delivery and operational control across all shifts.
• Ensure Shift Leaders are effectively leading Customer Service Advisors and maintaining high standards of customer support, communication and issue resolution.
• Oversee daily proactive reporting, ensuring delivery delays, missing items and service exceptions are identified, investigated and resolved within agreed timescales.
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex customer issues, supporting Shift Leaders with resolution plans and customer communication where required.
• Review team performance metrics and SLA's including response times, resolution rates, customer satisfaction, quality scores and productivity, implementing improvement plans where needed.
• Ensure regular call and case quality checks are completed by Shift Leaders and that feedback is captured, actioned and followed up in a structured way.
• Own and maintain customer service SOPs, ensuring compliance, consistency and adherence across all shifts and locations.
• Work closely with internal departments, carriers and operational teams to resolve recurring issues and improve the customer experience.
• Oversee shift briefings, handovers and communication logs, ensuring information is accurate, timely and available to all relevant stakeholders.
• Support workforce planning, shift cover, holiday planning and absence management in line with business requirements.
• Identify training needs across the department and ensure Shift Leaders are equipped to mentor, coach and develop their teams.
• Analyse customer feedback, complaints and operational trends to recommend service improvements and prevent repeat issues.
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly reports for the Head of Product Innovation and Carrier Management highlighting performance, risks, trends and recommended actions.

Person Specification

• Strong people manager with the ability to lead through others and set clear expectations.
• Organised, self-disciplined and able to manage competing priorities across shifts and locations.
• Confident decision maker with the ability to resolve escalations calmly and commercially.
• Able to work in a fast paced, time specific and targeted environment while maintaining service quality.
• High level of accuracy, attention to detail and ownership of outcomes.
• Ability to identify trends, root causes and process gaps, then drive practical solutions.
• Consultative and collaborative approach with strong internal stakeholder management skills.
• Customer focused, with the ability to balance service excellence, operational practicality and commercial impact.
• 5-year checkable work history, with no unaccountable gaps.
• Subject to Basic DBS check.

Essential Skills

• Proven experience managing within a customer service team, preferably within logistics, supply chain, transport, courier or freight environments.
• Minimum 3 years' experience in a supervisory, team management or customer service leadership role.
• Experience managing team leaders, shift leaders or supervisors in a performance-led environment.
• Strong understanding of customer support processes, escalation management, SOPs, reporting and quality assurance.
• Excellent communication, coaching, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.
• Comfortable working in a high-pressure, time-sensitive environment with clear KPIs and service expectations.
• Proficient in MS Office, particularly Excel, Outlook and Teams, and confident using customer service platforms or ticketing systems.

The role can offer Remote, Hybrid of office based working.

As an agency we are fast becoming the number one Freight specialist in the UK. We have a fast growing reputation with most Freight related companies. Freightserve has been established since 1992 working within the Freight Forwarding and Shipping industry