Customer Service Manager

Places for People; Warrington, Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days' holiday

Bank holidays

Healthcare cashback plan

Remote GP services

Sponsorship for study and professional

Job summary

Places for People in the UK is seeking a Customer Service Manager to provide operational leadership across customer contact, IT support and complaints, ensuring clear ownership and effective handovers throughout the journey. You'll lead managers and teams to deliver a consistently high-quality service.

Using data, feedback and service trends, you'll identify opportunities to strengthen journeys, improve recovery and reduce avoidable demand, while coordinating with property management, digital,

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading high-volume, multi-channel customer service operations across multiple functions.
• Proven ability to lead through managers and develop engaged, high-performing teams.
• Strong track record of meeting service, quality, customer satisfaction and productivity targets.
• Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Analytical skills using data to drive improvements and governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer service operations across 24/7 CS centre, IT service desk and complaints.
• Drive performance against SLAs, quality, satisfaction and first-time resolution.
• Plan resources, rotas and out-of-hours coverage to meet demand.
• Coach and develop managers and team leaders to sustain a high-performing culture.
• Oversee complex complaints, IT incidents and significant events.
• Use data and feedback to improve journeys and reduce avoidable demand.
• Lead improvements in systems, digital channels, automation and self-service.

Skills

High-volume ops

Multi-channel

Leadership & coaching

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decisions

CRM experience

Service recovery

Tools

Salesforce Service Cloud

Job description

Are you an experienced customer service leader who is passionate about improving service, developing high-performing teams and delivering better outcomes for customers? Residential Management Group (RMG) is looking for a Customer Service Manager to provide end-to-end leadership across our 24/7 Customer Service Centre, IT Service Desk and Complaints function. This is a senior and influential operational role where you'll ensure our customers receive a consistent, efficient and high-quality service from their first contact through to resolution. You'll bring teams and service areas together, translate strategic priorities into effective day-to-day delivery and lead improvements across performance, quality, customer satisfaction and first-time resolution. You'll also play an important role in how we use customer insight, technology, automation, AI and self-service to reduce avoidable contact, improve efficiency and make it easier for customers to get the support they need.

Where will I be working?

This is a full-time, office-based role at our Northwich office, working flexibly between the hours of 8am and 6pm.

More about your role

As Customer Service Manager, you'll provide operational leadership across customer contact, IT support and complaint resolution, ensuring clear ownership and effective handovers throughout the customer journey. You'll lead managers, team leaders and colleagues across several service areas, creating a positive, accountable and customer-focused culture. You'll set clear expectations, support colleague development and ensure teams have the skills, knowledge and resources required to deliver an excellent service.

Using performance data, customer feedback, complaint insight and service trends, you'll identify opportunities to strengthen customer journeys, improve service recovery and remove unnecessary customer effort. You'll also work closely with colleagues across property management, customer experience, digital, IT and other operational teams. This will include coordinating responses to significant customer-impacting events, IT incidents, complex complaints and wider service issues.

What you'll be doing

• Leading customer service operations across the 24/7 Customer Service Centre, IT Service Desk and Complaints function, ensuring clear ownership from initial contact through to resolution.
• Driving performance against service levels, quality, customer satisfaction, complaint handling, productivity and first-time resolution measures.
• Planning resources, rotas, out-of-hours coverage and capacity to meet changing customer and operational demand.
• Leading, coaching and developing managers, team leaders and colleagues to create a high-performing and customer-focused culture.
• Providing senior oversight of complex complaints, IT incidents, service failures and significant customer-impacting events.
• Using operational data, customer feedback and service insight to improve customer journeys, strengthen service recovery and reduce avoidable demand.
• Leading improvements across systems, customer data, digital channels, automation, AI and self-service, while maintaining appropriate governance and compliance.

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a guaranteed interview to candidates who are disabled, neurodiverse, or have served in the Armed Forces, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in your application. We are dedicated to creating a supportive and accessible recruitment process for all.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview experience, please let us know. We're happy to work with you to ensure you have the opportunity to perform at your best.

If you are a Places for People customer and you're looking for support with your application, please contact our skills and employment team on .

We understand the importance of a supportive and inclusive work culture so please talk to us at interview about flexibility you may need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we promise not to judge you for asking. For this role we are open to discussing the possibility of reduced hours, flexible start and finish times or compressed hours.

Safeguarding

At Places for People, safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. We are committed to creating safe communities for our customers and colleagues by protecting children, young people, and adults at risk from harm, abuse, and neglect. We follow robust safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring all employees, volunteers, and contractors uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and accountability. Our recruitment process includes pre-employment checks, including Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks where applicable, to promote a safe and secure working environment. By joining Places for People, you are expected to contribute to our safeguarding culture, following our policies and reporting concerns to protect those in our communities.

You’ll be a confident and credible customer service leader with significant experience of managing high-volume, multi-channel operations.

You’ll understand how to balance customer outcomes, colleague engagement, service quality and operational performance. You’ll be comfortable leading through other managers and team leaders, using data to make decisions and bringing different service areas together around a shared purpose.

You’ll also be an effective communicator who can build strong relationships, influence senior stakeholders and remain calm and organised when managing complex or high-profile customer issues.

Essential skills and experience

• Significant experience of leading high-volume, multi-channel customer service operations, ideally across contact centre, service desk or complaints services.
• Proven experience of leading through managers or team leaders and developing engaged, high-performing operational teams.
• A strong track record of achieving service, quality, customer satisfaction, complaint handling and productivity targets.
• Excellent leadership, coaching, communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the confidence to coordinate complex issues and influence across different business areas.
• Strong analytical skills, with experience using customer, workforce and operational data to make decisions and deliver sustainable improvements.
• Experience of leading operational change and introducing new systems, processes or ways of working, alongside a strong understanding of customer experience, service recovery and data governance.
• Experience of customer journey mapping, digital transformation, automation, AI-enabled tools or self-service initiatives.
• It would be great if you also have Experience within property management, housing, facilities management or another regulated service environment.
• Experience using Salesforce Service Cloud or a similar CRM platform.
• Knowledge of contact-centre telephony, omnichannel operations and service management platforms.

You’ll not only be joining a thriving market leader where you’ll benefit from working alongside some of the best people in the industry, you’ll also receive a superb package of company benefits, including:

• 27 days' holiday plus all Bank Holidays
• The option to buy or sell up to five days' annual leave each holiday year
• Healthcare cashback plan, allowing you to reclaim towards costs such as optical treatment, dental care, physiotherapy and GP charges
• 24/7 access to remote GP services
• Sponsorship for study and professional qualifications, including up to four study days
• Pension scheme with contributions matched up to 7%
• Life assurance of four times your annual salary
• Access to Our Place Rewards, offering shopping discounts, in-store vouchers, reloadable e-cards, cashback on online purchases and a range of exclusive offers