Purpose
The purpose of the Customer Service Agent role is to provide our customers with the best customer service experience. This role will answer questions, resolve any emerging problems, and provide product / service information with accuracy and efficiency to the customers as needed. The role is a critical part of company’s frontline company support, ensuring customers’ requests are actioned with a sense of urgency, care, and understanding. The Customer Services Agent ensures that customer calls and concerns are properly considered, captured on the system, and resolved with the goal of creating an exceptional experience in an environment of shared team knowledge.
Job Objectives
- Delivering high quality customer service and continually contributing towards a culture of customer service
- excellence – being passionate about the customer experience!
- Managing all incoming calls and communicating clearly with our customers, providing support pertaining to questions, resolution of any emerging problems and product / service information with accuracy.
- Remaining knowledgeable of performance requirements, brands, products, campaigns, and process documentation – being passionate about your own development!
- Ensuring all service level goals are understood and achieved.
- Taking the necessary steps to drive up customer retention.
- Following all set Shoprite standards, policies and procedures and providing input when something is not working as well as it should.
Qualifications
- Grade 12 / Matric – (essential)
- Degree/Diploma or Courses in Communications or a related field – (beneficial)
Experience
- +1 years’ experience in a Customer Services environment or similar role – (essential).
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office 365, including SharePoint Online – (essential).
- Experience in a retail / contact centre environment – (desired).