What you’ll be doing
1. Leads and inspires a large team of customer service professionals within a service centre environment, holding accountability for delivery of key performance metrics and effective management of customer interactions and the employee experience.
2. Coordinates timely resolution of service requests to achieve agreed objectives in delivering customer service and provides technical development and coaching to build team's issue resolution capabilities.
3. Supports the execution of reporting, ensuring leadership can leverage quantitative data to identify opportunities, challenge key risk and key performance indicators in efforts to identify and proactively address problems and manage the operational performance of the BT Group.
4. Supports the team through proper workflow and data entry of incidents, requests, problems, and knowledge articles.
5. Supports teams in ensuring resolutions to customer issues where analysis of service quality is reviewed and used to enhance the tech support service model.
6. Proactively seeks to minimise or eliminate customer service issues under supervision by addressing root causes in terms of either processes or behavioural changes.
7. Provides first-level escalation for any high-risk customer issues (technological, financial, legal, brand, reputational) raised by the team.
8. Impacts quality, efficiency and effectiveness through the supervision of the Customer Service team driving contribution to the department.
9. Coaches talent, and leads others, to develop capabilities and ensure performance through upskilling, development and recruitment.
10. Supports the implementation of continuous improvement opportunities to improve the customer service team processes.
The skills you’ll need
Complaint ManagementInformation ManagementCommunicationIssue ResolutionProblem SolvingCustomer InsightsCommercial AcumenKPI/Metric MonitoringFeedback ManagementCustomer Relationship ManagementKnowledge ManagementTalent ManagementPerformance ManagementEscalation ManagementDecision MakingGrowth MindsetStakeholder ManagementInclusive Leadership
Our leadership standards
Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’ We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development. A FEW POINTS TO NOTE: Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch. DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT? Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.