Customer Service Agents Job in Cape Town, Southern Suburbs
Customer Service Agents Job in Cape Town, Southern Suburbs April 2024
Remuneration: | Market related |
Location: | Cape Town, Southern Suburbs |
Job level: | Junior/Mid |
Type: | Permanent |
Reference: | #HCH701_202404031606 |
Job description
Key performance areas
Provide an exceptional customer experience
- Appropriately manage all customer queries
- Ensure a polite, friendly, efficient, and professional service is provided at all times
- Take responsibility for all calls by ensuring that advice is always given in the customer’s best interests by enhancing customer delight
- Handle objections appropriately to ensure that positive results are achieved
- Effectively deal with difficult queries and customers, avoiding formal complaints
- Improve the customer experience and service delivery by providing excellent customer service
Resolve customer queries effectively and efficiently
- Attend to logged customer queries in line with query resolution principles established by the company
- Contact customers in order to gain information, provide feedback, and follow through on resolving and tracking their queries
- Make contact with internal departments and external parties in order to gain further information or seek solution to customer queries
- Report issues and variances that affect customer queries to management and other departments, ensuring that unresolved queries are escalated appropriately
- Improve the customer experience and service delivery by providing excellent verbal and written customer service
Meet operational efficiencies
- Upsell product offerings in line with the departments required performance standards
- Meet acceptable query type production levels and query resolution ratios
- Consistently reach performance targets and standards relating to productivity, adherence, turnaround time, and quality
- Always ensure that any outstanding tasks are up to date
- Adhere and meet all service level agreements targets
- Constantly and proactively communicate ways to improve efficiencies in our performance, procedures and systems
- Ensure compliance standards and legislative requirements are adhered to and met against agreed quality benchmarks
Adhere to quality standards
- Always make sure that the correct information is relayed to customers
- Acquire and accurately capture all necessary information
- Ensure that all admin and reporting is conducted timeously and in accordance with required processes and procedures
- Adhere to policies, procedures and all business standards and requirements
Requirements
Qualifications and accreditations
- Grade 12/matric or equivalent qualification
Experience and skills
- Minimum of one year’s customer service experience within a contact centre
- Effective communication skills (verbal and written)
- Must be able to work shifts, weekends, and public holidays
- Clear credit and criminal record
- Must be computer literate (email, internet, Word and Excel)
- Excellent telephone etiquette
Attributes and behaviours
- Customer focused/centric attitude
- Performance-driven and results-orientated with a relentless drive to succeed
- A strong can-do attitude and an energetic positive approach
- Exceptional attention to detail with a thorough approach to work
- Excellent listening and interpersonal communication
- Team player but able to work independently