Overview
The Technical Support Specialist provides timely support to customers through available communication channels (email and chat).
Qualifications
Education background:
- Bachelor’s Degree or at least Diploma or equivalent in any discipline.
- Must have B2 level English Language proficiency (reading, writing, speaking and aural comprehension).
Work experience:
- Minimum of 6 months work experience in customer support in any industry.
- Fresh graduates are welcome with degrees in the following disciplines: English with Communication, English for Professionals, Mass Communication, or any related field.
- Call centre experience is not a ‘must’ but would be a distinct advantage.
Required Interpersonal Skills:
- Must be tech savvy and interested in the customer’s products and platform features.
- Ability to meet sales targets, while providing a stellar customer experience.
- Strong capability of transitioning support calls to solutioning sales opportunities.
- Proven ability to promote and build extraordinary customer rapport.
- Multitasking and computer navigation abilities.
- Ability to take complete ownership of customer issues and provide top tier service while resolving the issue before ending the call.
- Coachable, learner mindset, ability to take feedback and proactively apply it to improve results.
- Self-driven to achieve targets and deliver superior service.
Must be able to speak, read and write the required language to support.
Preferred requirements:
- 3+ years sales experience in a consultative selling role.
- Solid understanding of client products/services.
- Experience in B2B consultative sales, relationship building and using CRM systems.
- Experience owning and/or operating a small and/or midsize business (SMB).
- 1+ years’ experience in a commission, bonus, and/or metrics-driven environment.
Technical Skills:
- Minimum typing speed of 40wpm with a 90% accuracy score.
- Computer literate and fully conversant in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.
- Experience in Customer Support / Technical Support will be added advantage.
- Have basic understanding on HTML and Java will be added advantage.
Responsibilities
- Field inbound calls and exhibit the correct sales and customer experience behaviors throughout the entire interaction.
- Take a consultative approach to uncovering needs and forming solutions of new products and services that will help their businesses succeed.
- Offer resolution within our scope of support (SOS), providing direction for third party resolution or consultation regarding a paid solution, as appropriate.
- Troubleshoot client products as needed to resolve each call the first time.
- Meet metrics such as First Call Resolution, Conversion Rates, Net Promoter Score, and New Sales.
- Demonstrate extraordinary interpersonal skills and the ability to thrive, multi-task, and prioritize in a high-volume, dynamic environment.