Specialist Customer Care Sunderland, North East England, England
Job description
Customer Service Advisor
Sunderland
Salary - £25,000 per annum plus excellent benefits including: Private Medical Care including GP services, Life assurance covering x8 times basic salary, Pension Contribution up to 12%, 25 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays, with the option of buying or selling 5 days per year, plus many more benefits
Shift - 35hrs per week, rotating between 7am-11pm Monday to Sunday
As a Barclays Specialist Customer Service Advisor, you will be making a difference to the lives of our customers. In each interaction, you will provide the customer with that personal touch, demonstrating support, and working with them until all their needs are met. If you are a great listener and truly care about people, this is the role for you. Full training will be provided, and you will be placed within a supportive team who will guide you to ensure you have everything need to succeed as a specialist customer care colleague.
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.
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.
- Working as one team across multiple channels, personalising each interaction with a customer, and providing assistance and outcomes to best suit their needs
- Fulfilling customer requests whilst demonstrating professionalism and empathy to ensure they feel valued
- Demonstrating knowledge of our processes/policies to ensure that customers are confident with our colleagues, and knowing when to escalate where appropriate
- Educating our customers on a range of products and services as well as the different channels they can utilize to engage with us directly
- Investigating emotive and complex customer and client queries, concerns and complaints related to an extensive range of products
- Understanding a customer’s financial position through listening to customer’s specific circumstances and tailoring the relevant solution to their needs
- Working in a high paced environment reviewing relevant information and making decisions and actions autonomously
- Taking inbound calls at times so, you will need to listen to customers specific circumstances and tailoring the relevant solution to their needs
- Excellent communication and empathy skills, with the ability to use a range of communication styles to provide a personal approach
- A genuine passion for helping others with a customer centric mindset
- The ability to educate our customers on a range of products and services
- Competency in fraud investigation, processes and systems reviewing relevant information and making decisions and actions autonomously
- Ability to work seamlessly as part of a team but also to their own initiative
- Proven ability to use Microsoft Office to a high standard
- Experience in Retail Banking is desired but not essential, as we are looking for people that are passionate about customer service
Where will you be working?
You will be based in one of our Branches which are the heart of Barclays. Branches are changing both in the way they look and the way our colleagues work in them. We aim to have someone on hand to help our customers with their banking needs from the moment they walk in, creating an exquisite customer experience, face to face, while using technology to create the quickest, most seamless experience for them.
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