Konecta UK Limited Trainee Consultant

Blue Arrow; Ringwood; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Arrow, a Disability Confident Employer, seeks a Trainee Consultant in Ringwood to join their customer service team. You will handle telephone, email, Live Chat, and social media inquiries, guiding customers through orders and resolving issues with a focus on delivering 100% happiness.

You will learn brand voice, product and service offerings, and work across channels to achieve department KPIs while supporting others in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken.
• Ability to engage and motivate others through effective written communications.
• Results driven, meeting or exceeding KPIs or targets.
• Experience with customer service platforms and multi-channel support.

Responsibilities

• Achieve Efficiency, Adherence and Quality standards.
• Achieve individual KPI standards.
• Deliver 100% Happiness while considering cost efficiencies in decisions.

Skills

Excellent communication

Motivate others

MS SharePoint

MS Excel

MS Word

MS Outlook

Tools

Elucid

Vocalcom

Job description

Our client is a global service provider in customer management business process and digital outsourcing, with 120,000 passionate employees working in 30 languages across 4 continents and 26 countries.

Focusing on the unique needs and opportunities of each industry, they offer a full range of end-to-end customer management solutions - including acquisition, retention, customer service, technical support, and collection - all based on a sustainable business model. These services are built on a portfolio of world-class expertise covering customer experience and process management, digital solutions and cutting-edge technologies.

MISSION OF THE ROLE

They are seeking a Trainee Consultant to join the team where you will lead by example as an empowered and motivated member of the team, sharing customer service knowledge and experience to develop others and make the Brand Centre a world class Centre of Excellence.

Every contact into their Customer Service team needs to wow… and you'll be working with their customers to ensure everyone has the best experience possible. You will have the skills to be completely empowered to handle all types of contacts including telephone, email, Live Chat and all social media platforms. You will talk to their customers about placing new consumer and B2B orders, recommending products and services and resolving product, delivery and dispatch queries with their orders. In return your own excellent communication skills and engaging brand voice will ensure that together you always deliver 100% happiness, delivering personalised and thoughtful customer service through multi-channels.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Achieve Efficiency, Adherence and Quality standards
• Achieve individual Key Performance Indicator standards
• Deliver 100% Happiness whilst adhering to best practices to ensure every interaction considers cost efficiencies within the decision-making process
• Answer inbound telephone calls, respond to customer service emails and answer Live Chats to meet team service level agreement targets whilst delivering 100% Happiness to customers.
• Make outbound calls as required, either to reply to customers with queries, or to support targeted service campaigns as required.
• Provide cover in other areas of the Brand Centre as required.

REQUIREMENTS

Essential

• Excellent communication skills both written and spoken.
• Ability to engage and motivate others through effective written communications
• Results driven, meeting or exceeding current KPI's or targets.
• Effective in offering customers appropriate resolution whilst delivering 100% Happiness and supporting colleagues to do the same.
• Able to challenge processes and procedures to demonstrate better ways of working.
• Intermediate level of MS SharePoint, Excel, Word and Outlook.

Desirable

• Ability to coach and mentor team members to increase knowledge and efficiency.
• Competent and knowledgeable with Elucid, Vocalcom and other in-house systems.
• Familiar with areas of Call Centre compliance including adherence to GDPR guidelines, and ensure that agents operate to required standards and requirements when talking to our customers.
• A genuine love of chocolate would be an advantage!

Communication skills - Email & Live Chat

• Respond to customer and client enquiries in a timely, courteous and helpful manner.
• Demonstrate the ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues using written communication.
• Adapt your tone to suit different audiences while maintaining a consistent brand voice.
• Manage multiple chat conversations at once while maintaining attention to detail and response quality.
• Use BEEM where appropriate in all emails (Brand, Engage, Educate, Motivate)
• Use templates where appropriate, while also personalising messages to ensure a positive customer experience

They care passionately about their people and extensive training is given prior to handling any live customer contacts, with ongoing support provided. However, you must have a strong customer service ethic to succeed in this role together with a desire to achieve personal sales and service targets and results.

Blue Arrow is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to helping find great work opportunities for great people.