Customer Support Officer - Part Time (21 hours, including weekends)

Handelsbanken; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 14,000 - 21,000; Part time

Job summary

Handelsbanken is seeking a Customer Support Officer for a part-time role based at our Manchester City Centre Head Office. The post involves handling telephony-based customer service across payments, transfers, cards, digital support and fraud, with weekly rotating shifts including weekends.

The role demands excellent communication, a professional telephone manner, and the ability to work under pressure while maintaining high standards of accuracy and service.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and dynamic self-starter
• Strong customer service ethics
• Exceptional communication skills
• Knowledge of a customer support and branch environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills: able to interact with customers and branches
• Ability to work well under pressure with attention to detail
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks
• Confident, professional and friendly telephone manner

Responsibilities

• Take calls from individual, corporate and potential customers related to payments and transfers, transactions and balances, cards, digital support, fraud
• Monitor and support payment monitoring and branch activities with new initiatives
• Provide customer solutions and spot opportunities for the bank
• Handle non-branch based interactions and escalate where necessary
• Operate within the Bank's Risk Management framework and policies and escalate concerns to line manager

Skills

Enthusiastic and dynamic self-starter

Strong customer service ethics

Exceptional communication skills

Knowledge of customer support & branch

Excellent verbal and written comms

Work under pressure with attention to

Organisational skills

Friendly telephone manner

Job description

# Customer Support Officer - Part Time (21 hours, including weekends)## Job Introduction Handelsbanken is a relationship bank built on trust, long-term thinking and local decision-making. We provide bespoke banking and wealth management services to personal and corporate customers,Our decentralised model means decisions are made close to the customer, in our branches. Our central Functions teams play a vital role in supporting the branch network, providing the expertise, governance and infrastructure that enable branches to serve customers effectively and sustainably.This approach had underpinned our success for decades. Handelsbanken is independently recognised as one of Europe’s safest commercial banks, holds the strongest credit rating among its peers and is consistently ranked highly for customer satisfaction and relationship banking.Our culture is values-led, shaped by trust, respect, and long-term thinking. We empower our people to use their expertise, make confident decisions and build long-term careers. We look for people who share our long- term vision, want to grow and want to make a meaningful impact in their local community and with the BankWe also recognise that flexibility can support people to perform at their best, and that it looks different for everyone. While arrangements will depend on the requirements of the role and the needs of the business, we are open to having a conversation around what flexibility could look like for you.Check our **Handelsbanken website** for further information**The opportunity** **Customer Support Officer - Part Time (21 Hours - Including Weekends)**Handelsbanken Customer Connect is a dynamic department within the Branch Network area providing both a range of telephony based services to our customers, as well as administrative and advisory support to our Branch network.**Our Customer Support roles are fully office based at our Manchester City Centre Head Office, due to the nature of the role. The working hours are on a shift basis, 7 hours between the hours of 7am - 10pm, these would be on a weekly rotating basis.**Key responsibilitiesTake calls from individual, corporate and potential customers related to:* Payments & transfers* Transactions and balances* Cards* Digital support* Fraud* Payment Monitoring* Supporting Branch activities with existing and new initiatives* Non-branch based interactions* Providing customer solutions and spotting opportunities* Operate in line with the Bank's Risk Management framework (including sub-frameworks) and relevant risk and compliance policies and procedures, ensuring appropriate and timely escalation of any concerns to their line manager.What we’re looking forResearch (by Harvard University) shows that women are particularly likely to second guess themselves and not apply - so if you are worried you don't meet all the criteria, get in touch anyhow and let us do the worrying...* Enthusiastic and dynamic self-starter* Strong customer service ethics* Exceptional communication skills* Knowledge of a customer support and branch environment* Excellent verbal and written communication skills: able to interact and deal with queries in a professional manner with both customers and branches.* Ability to work well under pressure with attention to detail.* Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage a number of tasks.* Confident, professional and friendly telephone manner**Why join Handelsbanken**We want everyone at Handelsbanken to feel supported, motivated, and able to do great work. That’s why, alongside brilliant colleagues, meaningful work and training and development opportunities, we provide a variety of benefits designed with your wellbeing in mind. In addition, there is a flexible benefits package with the key highlights detailed below. **Application next steps** Your journey with us begins once you have submitted your application. One of our Handelsbanken Talent Acquisition Partners will be reviewing your details and will later organise a phone conversation if your experience aligns with our requirements, we will extend an invitation for you to participate in an interview. *This advert will be live for a minimum of two weeks. However, please note that after the two weeks, the closing date could change at any time depending on the number of responses received.**The Bank is deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice into all of our activities. This is so that we are an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work that encourages everyone to apply, regardless of socio-economic background, age, disability, pregnancy and/or parental status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), veteran status, marital and civil partnership status, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.**#LI-RG1*Apply+−Leaflet | OpenStreetMap contributors### Customer Support Officer - Part Time (21 hours, including weekends)* **Salary** Competitive* **Frequency** Annual* **Job Reference** hbuk/TP/81351/2859* **Contract Type** Permanent - Part Time* **Closing Date** 16 October, 2026* **Job Category** Customer Service/Customer Support* **Business Unit** Customer and Digital Connect (UKBT-C)* **Location** Manchester, United Kingdom* **Posted on** 30 September, 2026