Location: Hybrid working available

Salary: £22,750 + excellent benefits

Hours: 35 hours per week

What you'll do

As a Contact Centre Customer Service Advisor, you will provide our customers with an outstanding service we can all be proud of, by taking ownership of customer’s transactional or service requests and answering specific product queries. Our customers call us for all sorts of reasons and tell us they want their requests dealing with speed, certainty, accuracy, and empathy, so these are key skills we look for.

You should be passionate about delivering an outstanding customer experience, be ambitious and have a helpful personality. Previous Customer Service experience is essential, but do not worry if you do not have banking experience, we can teach you everything you need to know. To be successful we are looking for people who are resilient and can work in a busy contact centre environment, people who can hold conversations with customers and have a genuine passion for going above and beyond expectations.

Within this role you will.

• Provide exceptional telephone customer service in a timely manner and be able to adhere and self-serve our policies and procedures to resolve customers queries
• Have the technical ability to use multiple systems with pace
• Process a wide range of transactions, whilst maintaining a high degree of accuracy
• Be a problem solver, someone who can think outside of the box and have an excellent attention to detail
• Play a supporting role in educating our customers around HSBC products and alternative digital banking platforms

Hybrid Working
We are operating a hybrid working environment, which means you will work partly in the office (minimum of 2 days a week) and partly at home, it’s important you are able to do both. If working from home you will need to have a working environment which is safe, secure and be free from the interruptions of day-to-day life.

The Hybrid Office Location for this role is:

110 Grey Street, Gateshead, Newcastle, NE1 6JG

When & where you'll work

This role is full-time, contracted to 35 hours a week over 4 or 5 days, successful applicants must be able to commit to the role for a minimum of 12 months at 35 hours per week. Flexibility is required as you will be working between the hours of 8am to 8:00pm Monday to Sunday when our customers need us the most.

Your Training

You’ll initially receive 3 weeks full training to get you up to speed with the specifics of your job role, the systems you will use, as well as the products and services that HSBC offer. After training you will then receive a further 3 weeks of support in our Academy, this is where you will be taking your first live customer calls with the support of a peer coach. Our Training and Academy hours are Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.

To enable us to provide you with the correct support to fulfil your role training and academy support will be face to face in the office, we also ask that you do not take any holidays during this time.

What You’ll Get!

We offer an attractive minimum starting salary of £22,750 based on 35 hours per week, plus an annual discretionary performance bonus and a very competitive benefits package listed below:

25 days holiday and 8 bank holidays with the option to buy a further 5 days

Perks at Work Benefit where you will be able to access to 30,000+ national & local employee discounts. Over 20 different categories ranging from Electronics, Fashion, Entertainment, Travel and Home & Garden to name a few.

• A market-leading employer Pension contribution*
• Access to “My Choice” Flexible benefits platform where you have access a whole range of optional benefits you can get hold of including: Health Club Memberships, Retail Voucher Cards, Car Breakdown Cover and Health Cash plan including dental to name a few.
• BUPA Healthcare
• Life Assurance, equivalent to four times your annual salary
• Sharesave schemes – a monthly savings plan linked to an option to buy shares in HSBC at a discounted rate.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We are proud members of the Disability Confident Scheme, and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please contact our Recruitment Helpdesk:

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: +44 2078328500.