Consultant Sales Support - Pipeline Bethlehem

Absa Group; Bethlehem; On-site; ZAR 150,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking banking institution that is dedicated to empowering Africa's future. In this dynamic role, you will engage with customers to provide exceptional sales and service experiences, ensuring their needs are met through expert product knowledge and effective problem-solving. As a key player in driving sales and reducing customer attrition, you will have the opportunity to grow your skills and contribute to the bank's mission of service excellence. This is an exciting chance to be part of a team that values your development and offers a platform for your career to flourish in a supportive and diverse environment.

Qualifications

• Required: Higher Certificates in Business, Commerce, or Management.
• Strong sales and customer service skills necessary.

Responsibilities

• Deliver virtual customer sales and service, resolving queries.
• Achieve sales targets through quality applications and upselling.
• Adhere to risk and governance policies during customer interactions.

Skills

Customer Service

Sales Skills

Product Knowledge

Problem-Solving

Communication

Education

Higher Certificates in Business

Advanced National (Vocational) Certificates

Job description

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

To deliver dynamic virtual end-to-end customer sales and service including fulfillment, resolving customer queries, cross selling and/or upselling all relevant bank products on offer. Offer financial advice to the customer and handle retentions.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Accountability: Selling products and services.

• Provide sales and services enablement according with service delivery excellence plans by putting customer experience at the centre of products, services, solutions, advice and fulfillment.
• Achieves predetermined sales targets through generating quality applications.
• Contact the customer and executes the sales process within the desired turnaround time.
• Delivers customer sales and services whilst maintaining quality service standards.
• Determine customers’ needs by exploring all possible cross-selling and up-selling opportunities.
• Ensure first call resolution.
• Tracking of conversions from lead or call to application and then to fulfilment.

Accountability: Reduction of customer attrition.

• Speaks to customers to ensure that their needs are identified and advises various options.
• Adheres to shared company values and service standards with regard to customer interaction.
• Resolves customer dissatisfaction / complaints and takes full ownership of the problem.
• Communicates with the customer according to company standards.
• Address the customer’s need with product knowledge that is technically accurate.
• Preparation for the outbound call, providing alternative products solutions where applicable.

Accountability: Information management.

• Update the system with accurate information to inform accurate reporting.

Accountability: Adherence to risk and governance

• Strictly adhere to all risk and governance policies, standards and procedures and escalate associated risks.
• Participate in survey (EOS) and in findings action plans.
• Support BSSA CSI initiatives.
• Adherence to NCA, FICA and FAIS legislation.
• Comply with Risk and Control Activities and adherences.
• Comply with all Human Resources policies and procedures.
• Understand and accept responsibility for all system access granted in line with all Fraud Risk Management Policies.

Accountability: Training and development

• Participate in all scheduled training and multiskilling opportunities.
• Participate in coaching sessions.
• Owning and being proactive about own training and development.
• Participate in idea sharing through pitch in initiative.
• Complete all compliance training within prescribed timelines.

Education

Higher Certificates and Advanced National (Vocational) Certificates: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised.