Service Excellence Team Leader

Domestic & General; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Discounts and Rewards

Electric vehicle leasing

Long service awards

Salary Finance loans

Job summary

Domestic & General is hiring a Team Leader for the Service Excellence department in a hybrid role with Nottingham, Bedworth or Brighton offices and remote options. This 37.5-hour week position leads coaching, real-time support and performance improvement across the team to deliver exceptional customer service.

You will coach agents, manage escalations and partner with L&D and IT to drive continuous improvements, while building strong stakeholder relationships and maintaining a proactive, “one

Qualifications

• Effective interpersonal, written and communication skills at all levels.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Highly organized with ability to prioritise tasks and stay calm under pressure.
• Ability to improve performance through coaching.
• Experience within Consumer Electronics, Domestic Appliance or Central Heating sectors is desirable.
• Passion, drive and capability to become a leader of leaders.

Responsibilities

• Provide real time support.
• Support escalation calls and provide coaching and feedback.
• Coach new agents during induction and after, with QA feedback and development plans.
• Complement BAU with call-taking activities to maintain knowledge and skills.
• Give feedback to improve agent and team performance using data available.
• Review intraday performance and focus the team on areas of need.
• Provide additional coaching and mentor others within the team.
• Collaborate with L&D during call-taking activities in Induction.
• Hold team huddles as required.
• Model behaviours to drive professional standards and coach accordingly.
• Focus on continuous improvement and work with Performance, Knowledge Specialists, L&D and IT.
• Build and maintain stakeholder relationships to promote a one team culture.
• Design, manage and track incentives across the team within budget.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Organizational skills

Coaching experience

Leadership potential

Consumer electronics experience

Job description

Contract: Permanent, full time

Location: Both Remote and Hybrid, with the option to work from home and in one of our office locations in Nottingham, Bedworth or Brighton

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Closing date: Friday 9th October

Are you a highly, driven people leader who has a passion for coaching and developing your teams to achieve fantastic results?

Are you excited by a fast-paced and agile working environment where you can help us in our journey to achieve our vision to become a world class service organisation?

We are now excited to be recruiting a Team Leader for our Service Excellence department.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide real time support
• Support escalation calls and provide coaching and feedback where needed
• Support new agents during and immediately after completion of induction through coaching and developing their skills and knowledge. Provide immediate development QA feedback and agree effective coaching plans
• Provides flexibility through completing call taking activities as a part of BAU activity to ensure relevant, current knowledge and to maintain customer service and sales skills
• Give feedback to enhance agent and team performance. To have an in depth understanding of the Agents performance (using appropriate data available) and coaches to improve performance
• Review intraday performance and focus the team on areas of need
• Support with additional coaching requirements within the team, sharing expertise, best practice and acting as a mentor for others
• Works with L&D during call-taking activities in Induction
• Hold team huddles when required
• Role model behaviours to drive our professional standards and coach people against those
• Maintains a focus on continuous improvement and works closely with other Performance and Knowledge Specialists and support functions such L&D and IT to enhance the overall performance of the area.
• Build and maintain key relationships with stakeholders across the business to support your team effectively and promote our "one team" culture.
• Design, manage and track incentives across the team and department whilst sticking to assigned budget and demonstrating positive results.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Effective interpersonal, written and communication skills at all levels, both internal (to Director level) and externally.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• You will be highly organized with the ability to priorities tasks effectively and able to remain calm under pressure.
• Ability to improve performance through effective coaching.
• Ideally you will have experience within Consumer Electronics, Domestic Appliance or Central Heating sectors.
• Passion, drive and capability to become a leader of leaders.

Working for us, works for you

• Personal and Professional growth is encouraged, with Internal Mobility programmes providing networking opportunities and Leadership development programmes.
• Work-Life balance with a hybrid role / Health Cash Plan / Instant discounts / the new credit building tool / Salary Finance Loans / electric vehicle leasing / long service awards
• Free Domestic & General protection plan – one free plan each year with access to discounted rates of up to 50% on additional plans, including referrals for family and friends

The culture at Domestic at General is creative, fast-moving and exciting as we’re going through a period of transformational change where customers are at the heart of everything we do… do not miss out on an opportunity to be part of both our culture and growth,

At Domestic & General, we are proud of our 100-year legacy and excited about our future growth plans. We are expanding our horizons, entering new markets and territories internationally and we need your expertise to help us on the journey.