Customer Service Coach

Customer Service Coach

· Salary: £26,617.39 (£31,940 on target earnings)

· Location: Pudsey, Leeds, Hybrid working

About you:

Are you an experienced Coach or Trainer or have a wealth of knowledge Floor Walking? Do you have a background in finance or a contact centre setting?

If the answer is yes, we want to hear from you! Apply today for a guaranteed interview.

About us:

At Lantern we're a market leader in acquiring and managing vulnerable customers, helping them to find an affordable solution and sustainable pathway to clearing their outstanding debts. Having built a solid reputation for being the specialist in our sector, we've won some pretty impressive GOLD standard awards over the last several years from Investors in People and Investor in Customers.

About the role:

As a Customer Service Coach you'll be responsible for delivering operational training and ongoing coaching to our Customer Service and Business Process agents. You will use coaching and training techniques to achieve optimum performance levels to maintain a high level of fair customer outcomes. This role will report into the Customer Experience Manager, you will be required to:

· Develop and coach staff to deliver great customer experience and good customer outcomes through side by side and remote coaching and training.

· Take ownership of the training and development of new colleagues from classroom to ‘go live' to academy.

· Collaborate with the Learning and development team to review, update and maintain the learning materials for operational training.

· Proactively monitor team and department performance against KPI, SLAs and support the team leader community to take appropriate action to remedy any negative trends.

· Challenge processes and procedures, identify and implement improvements to enhance the customer experience or improve operational efficiency.

· Ensures individuals are compliant with all applicable policies, procedures and role competency requirements.

· To respond, handle and record appropriately escalated manager calls in line with SLA and regulatory requirements.

· Contribute to the HR objective of reducing staff attrition, staff tenure and the impact of new starters within the first three months.

· Act as a role model and lead by example, an advocate of Lanterns Behaviours and Values, actively working within the ethos they set and encouraging the team to work at the same standard.

· Maintains own mandatory training, product knowledge testing and annual attestation requirements alongside assistance to the Learning and Development team with new starters.

· Create an inclusive and caring environment where all agents feel welcomed, valued and able to contribute as an individual. Ensure everyone values differences and treat both colleagues and customers as individuals.

· Create a culture where agents morale and motivation is high throughout the team, making a difference together and delivering a consistent approach.

What you'll need:

· 1 year experience in a coaching, people management or supervisory role.

· Experience working within a regulated environment.

· MS Office experience, including MS Teams.

· Strong organisational skills.

· Self-motivated and a strong ability to work collaboratively with different teams across the business.

· Excellent levels of attention to detail to ensure your work is accurate and of high quality.

· Demonstrating resilience and agility in your approach to work - we're fast paced and sometimes we'll need to juggle or prioritise.

· Being creative - we love hearing new ideas from our colleagues about how we can do things better.

Benefits

· Bonus up to 20% of annual salary (£5,323 available)

• 33 days holiday (incl public holidays) - rising to 36 with service
• Amazing Benefits: healthcare, cash back, employee assistance, free monthly flexi points to spend at high street retailers, pension plan, gym discounts, free on-site parking, loyalty reward scheme, generous referral scheme, casual dress code, toast, fruit and free drinks available in the office, ad-hoc incentives run regularly and lots more!

Due to the nature of our business, all offers of employment are subject to background and vetting checks, including; employment references, DBS (basic), credit file search, PEP and financial sanctions searches.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £26,617.00-£31,940.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Referral programme
• Work from home

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme
• Loyalty bonus

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Pudsey