Call Centre Team Leader (UK) - Remote

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What We'll Bring:

What You'll Bring:

What you will do:

• Responsible for managing the day to day operations of the Consumer supporting voice/data teams, by leading and managing the teams to provide best in class customer service experience, in ensuring that your team is being measured and coached in accordance with their job requirements, metrics and HR policies.
• Anticipate customer needs and proactively champion and resolve customer issues in collaboration with relevant teams and resources.
• Develop and maintain a high level of knowledge about our industry, products and services to effectively support a team of customer service representatives.
• Create an inspiring team environment with high engagement and an open communication culture through regular one on ones, team meetings, team huddles/briefs and any other effective communications methods.
• Track, monitor and evaluate both team and individual performance on all metrics by producing daily, weekly and monthly status reporting on team and individual productivity and other KPI’s and ensure that correct procedures are being followed
• Hold agents accountable for their performance within the call center by recognizing high performance and reward accomplishments.
• Encourage creativity and risk taking
• Through your proven experience drive constant improvement of customer service through call listening, quality checking, coaching and feedback and maintain required coaching logs and one on one minutes
• Work with team to establish clear goals and targets, thus creating a sense of ownership, complete annual reviews and assist employees in resolving any issues (If any)
• Mentor and develop team members to surpass their potential by creating and completing development plans for each individual, therefore creating clear growth paths
• Act as Tier 2 escalation support for your team by handling escalated and supervisor level communications from customers/consumers in a timeous manner by responding to and resolving issues and/or unique or complex requests
• Identify any system and workflow improvements to enhance teams efficiency by reviewing and creating process documents where required.
• Must work US business hours in support of US customers/consumers and must be open to rotational weekend shifts also during US business hours
• Participate and lead in QA and other operational meetings to ensure that teams meet and exceed all call metrics.

What you will bring:

• High School/College Diploma or equivalent required in business or related field (Equivalent combination of work and educational experience may be substituted at the discretion of management)
• Bachelor’s degree preferred in business or related field (Equivalent combination of work and educational experience may be substituted at the discretion of management)
• At least 5 years of customer service experience in an inbound voice call centre
• At least 3 – 4 years’ experience in leading a customer service team with multiple members as well as multiple processes (Previous experience in managing remote teams will be advantageous)
• Goal setting for the team
• Responsible for manual reports
• Above average oral and written communication skills and must have a sense of comfort with their presentation skills
• Must have a proactive and solution-oriented mindset
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office programs such as outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc
• Must have the ability to promote team work and have strong coaching skills in order to coach teams effectively
• Must have a strong attention to detail, ability to plan and problem solve and make relevant decisions
• Must have good organizational skills
• The ability to learn fast, work under pressure in a fast paced environment and adapt quickly with the goal of becoming and SME on all processes
• Comfort level with general technical skills
• Experience in people development
• The ability to collaborate well with others in order to achieve required objectives
• Ability to maintain required focus and flexibility within the organization as the individual will be required to perform multiple tasks whilst determining when to escalate and issue
• Fluency in English

Impact You'll Make:

For positions based in South Africa, preference will be given to suitably qualified candidates from designated groups in line with the company's Employment Equity plan and targets.

Should you have not heard from us within 3 weeks from applying, please regard your application as unsuccessful.

Please note it is a requirement of the Global Capability Centre Africa that you reside in a home that is fibre ready; and has space for you to be able to work comfortably and confidentially on a day-to-day basis for the purpose of your proposed employment. You can be based anywhere in South Africa that has fibre, but will not be able to work in a location outside of South Africa.

A Minimum of a 100 Meg Fibre line is required, should you be successful, you will need to upgrade your line or install fibre in order to work effectively.

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