Job description
Complaints Handler
Northampton
As a Barclays Complaints Handler, you will take ownership of an exceptional customer and client experience and strengthen relationships by effectively engaging with customers and clients on their terms within a multi-channel environment. For this role, you will investigate emotive and complex customer and client queries, concerns and complaints related to an extensive range of products and services to understand the cause, impact, and solution. Get this opportunity to deliver great customer outcomes to create advocates of Barclays.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
This opportunity is location flexible. We will consider requests for locating the role at an alternative Barclays’ key UK office from that advertised.
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
- Interacting with customers/clients on their terms, in an engaging way that demonstrates open-mindedness, actively listening and being genuinely curious
- Investigating customer/client queries, concerns and complaints whilst withholding judgement, using the conversation cycle and role modelling mutual respect
- Intercepting and tuning into issue avoidance, confidently making self-initiated contact, anticipating needs, and addressing customer/clients’ queries and concerns efficiently
- Bringing your whole self to work, using your personality to provide a positive noticeable experience, recognizing the personal impact you have on the way customers/clients feel
- Ensuring the voice of the customer/client is always heard by actively identifying root causes of customer/client concerns and complaints and capturing accurate information
- Guaranteeing all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Barclays Risk Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Standards
- Identifying your knowledge and capability gaps and take ownership of your own development and training to upskill and fill them, maintaining an effective development
- Making certain that all mandatory training are comprehended and completed within given timescales
- Experience in delivering exceptional customer/client interactions in a professional and caring manner
- Natural empathiser with the willingness and ability to grasp others point of view and to build rapport with customers /clients
- Desire to embrace the freedom provided to do the right thing for the customer/client to derive the right outcome and exceed customer expectations
- Ability to break down complex issues and assimilate a wide range of information to fully comprehend cause, impact, and solution
- Collaborative approach to finding solutions, maintaining positive relationships with teams and departments across the Barclays group
- Excellent team player, supporting a culture of individuality, fun, and the sharing and embedding of best practice
- Ability to work individually and under pressure
- Drives own performance using creativity and your own initiative to overcome challenges, identify solutions and upskill knowledge and capability
Where will you be working?
Northampton was the birthplace of Barclaycard in 1966 and we've been based in Pavilion Drive since the building opened in 1997. This state-of-the art energy efficient building holds up to 2,500 staff. The office location is perfect for travel from the midlands and London alike as we are based just off the A45, it is easily accessible by both car and bus routes.
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