Customer Support Advisor

Tes; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in customer support is looking for a Customer Support Advisor based in Sheffield. The role involves providing support via email, phone, and webchat while ensuring excellent service quality and satisfying SLAs. Employees enjoy generous leave entitlements, a modern work environment, and numerous benefits like health coverage and opportunities for development.

Benefits

25 days of annual leave, increasing to 30 days

State-of-the-art city centre offices

Access to My Benefits World

Discounted city centre parking

Free fruit delivered weekly

Complimentary breakfast cereals and drinks

Free eye care cover

Life assurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Extensive Learning and Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in effective communication with customers.
• Strong comprehension skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Effectively manage and resolve customer contacts through various channels.
• Meet all SLAs for customer interactions.
• Provide technical support and assist customers.

Skills

Communication

Attention to Detail

Initiative

Customer Service

Job description

Norfolk St, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2JE, UK Req #1056

04 July 2025

Title: Customer Support Advisor

Department: Operations

Location:Sheffield (Hybrid, 3 days a week, 2 from home)

Full Time, Permanent

Line manager: Operations Manager

Role overview:

Providing customer support for our customers via all channels including email, phone, webchat. Building a strong rapport with customers and giving them a voice by feeding their experiences and feedback to the rest of the business.

Key to this role is ensuring we meet agreed SLA’s (Service level agreements) and deadlines, the role will be varied and cover a wide range of tasks.

Key responsibilities:

• Effectively handle, manage, resolve, and log customer contacts received through a range of customer support channels in a timely and professional manner.
• Liaise with other internal and external partners to ensure issues are resolved and ensure a smooth transaction for our customers.
• Take ownership, managing, investigating, resolving, and logging customer contacts and enquiries.
• Meet all SLAs for transactional and subscriptions customers, and be willing to work as deemed necessary to ensure all SLAs are met in line with company policies.
• Provide technical support and assistance to customers throughout their contract lifetime.
• Optimise customer satisfaction and meet defined quality standards for contact handling and associated administration.
• Work effectively as a team and autonomously.
• Support customers with help requests, technical issues, complaints, suggestions, and praise received through a range of customer support channels.
• Be able to communicate effectively and listen to a customer’s specific situation and needs.
• Process advert requests and queries from our customer base.
• Have strong, up to date product knowledge across the Tes brands to advise and add value to customers experience and encourage engagement.
• Follow escalation procedures for technical and product development issues, liaising with internal and external partners.
• Assist other areas of the Operations department when necessary due to demand.
• Weekend work maybe required on an adhoc basis during peak seasonal times which will be provided back as time in lieu.

What will you need to succeed?

• Proven experience in effectively communication with customers, clients or similar.
• Strong comprehension skills and attention to detail to ensure customer contacts are read and interpreted correctly.
• Collaborative approach and the ability to build internal relationships both within the team and the wider business.
• Ability to take initiative, be self-motivating, act proactively.
• Working within a multi skilled environment.
• Have a very positive work attitude including flexibility and willingness to work.
• Initiative and ability to make informed decisions within the remit of their role.
• Customer service experience; handling calls and emails, delivering excellent customer service.
• Management of customer complaints.
• Working in a high-volume environment to meet customer expectation.
• Working in an environment with remote teams.

What Do You Get in Return?

• 25 days of annual leave, increasing to 30 days
• State-of-the-art city centre offices
• Access to My Benefits World
• Discounted city centre parking
• Free fruit delivered weekly to the office
• Complimentary breakfast cereals and hot/soft drinks
• Free eye care cover
• Free Westfield Health cover
• Life assurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Monthly paid-for social events
• Extensive Learning and Development opportunities
• Norfolk St, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2JE, UK