Customer Service Advisor

Position: Call Handler
Sector: Housing Repairs
Location: Billericay 
Salary: Up to £27k per annum 

We are looking for a customer care call handler to join our team in Basildon.Your primary responsibility will be to take a large volume of inbound calls, booking appointments and assisting engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Provide fantastic customer service support to all incoming calls including residents, clients, other departments.
• Responsible for inbound calls with a helpful, with a professional approach
• Distribute incoming calls to the relevant department.
• Book appointments for works by telephone and email.
• Manage large amounts of inbound calls, emails and webchats calls in a timely manner.
•  Identify customers’ needs and pass to correct department
• Build sustainable relationships with residents / clients.
• Always put the customers needs first.
• Administration duties.
• Take ownership for responding to inbound communications (calls and emails).
• Demonstrate good understanding of the different customer groups/personas, and tailor your style and response to appropriately meet the customer’s needs.
• Follow the contact centre script and/or system diagnosis tool to ensure the right information is captured and validated (e.g. contact details, preferred contact method, etc).
• Accurately diagnose the issue by utilising the system diagnosis tool, supplemented by your own knowledge and experience.
• Where possible and appropriate, help the resident to self-solve simple and low risk issues (e.g. checking the status of ther gas or electricity meter, re-setting a blown fuse, etc).
• Where an appointment is required, work to ensure that it is offered in line with contractual Service Level Agreements (SLAs), the customer’s preferences and Operational constraints.
• Ensure that the system is updated in a timely manner so that the client and the Operations team are in receipt of the most up to date information.
• Where a resident wants to re-book an appointment, it may be necessary to liaise direct the Planners and Service Controllers to communicate short-notice changes.
• Capture detailed notes on the system to support operatives in completing a first time fix on site.

Experience Required

• You will have previous administrative experience with evidence of delivering excellent customer service and maintaining high quality relationships.
• You will have excellent interpersonal skills and deliver effective interaction with all internal and external stakeholders.
• You will have the ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with key stakeholders and ensure best practice prevails throughout the contract.
• You will have excellent telephone skills and be able to obtain detailed information from telephone discussions.
• Repairs knowledge preferred

For more information please call Leah Seber at Build Recruitment, or apply with your CV today.

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