What's the job?
Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities:
• Handle and resolve complaints from our installations customers that have been sent to the Kingfisher and B&Q
Board, as well as legal and financial complaints via the Installations field team and our stores, or from our internal
PR Team
• Liaise with store leadership, installations field team and installers to coordinate effective resolutions.
• Work with Installations Quality & Aftercare advisors to identify opportunities for service improvement.
• Manage complex complaints and build effective relationships with our internal stakeholders, as well as our business partners in affiliated Finance and Ombudsman groups.
• Manage and resolve complaints received via telephone, email, and letter, maintaining communication within agreed SLA’s.
• Understanding the details of complaints and making detailed records on B&Q systems
• Work within agreed guidelines with the autonomy to make decisions and find resolutions.
• You may be required to undertake other duties from time to time as we may reasonably require.
Key Business Relationships:
• Showrooms and store colleagues
• Installations Teams
• Installers
• External partners
• Customer Management Centre & Executive complaints team
• Colleagues within Supply Chain, Logistics and Commercial
• Retail Leadership Team, Store Managers, and their Colleagues
• PR, social media, and Marketing
What we need:
Required Skills & Experience:
• Experience of dealing with complex problems and creating simple solutions.
• High levels of organisational skills
• Ideally from a Complaints/call handling background.
• Excellent Communication skills, both written and verbal, across all levels of an organisation.
• A keen eye for detail and recording data with accuracy.
• Effective communication skills across multiple channels
• Customer focused; understands the needs of internal and external customers, responds promptly, and ensures the customer is at the forefront of their thinking.
• Working with others; builds effective relationships with peers outside own team, to provide the best solutions for our customers, not afraid to tackle conflict or confront others when problems occur.
• Experience with dispute resolution and/or mediation beneficial but not essential.
• Installations experience beneficial but not essential
What's in it for me?
As part of a great team, you’ll be valued for who you are.We’re committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities. You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business.
We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, bonus, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more!
So we can support you during the application or interview process, please contact for any recruitment adjustments.