Customer Care Executive
Location | Kampala, Uganda |
Date Posted | December 16, 2024 |
Category |
Customer Service
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Job Type |
Full-time
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Currency | UGX |
Description
Job Summary
The Customer Care Executive is primarily responsible for ensuring delivery of exceptional customer service to customers as per the respective client’s SLA. The primary focus of a Customer Care Executive is to assist; retain, acquire, and/or recover customers.
- Minimum Qualification : Diploma
- Experience Level : No Experience
- Experience Length : No Experience/Less than 1 year
Job Description/Requirements
DEPARTMENT: Operations REPORTS TO: Team Leader
POSITION SUMMARY
The Customer Care Executive is primarily responsible for ensuring delivery of exceptional customer service to customers as per the respective client’s SLA. The primary focus of a Customer Care Executive is to assist; retain, acquire, and/or recover customers.
Key PerformanceIndicators
Inbound
- Attendance
- Login hours
- Internal Qualityscore
- Product KnowledgeTest score
- Tagging accuracy and percentage
Outbound
- Attendance
- Login hours
- Internal Quality score
- Product KnowledgeTest score
- Connect percentage for close looping or
- Sales Revenue generated
Back Office
- Attendance
- Login hours
- Internal Quality score
- Product knowledge Test score
- Average tasks closed/escalated within TAT
Targets for the above KPIs will be as communicated by the business from time to time. These targets may vary across verticals and/or in line with client SLAs.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Build rapport with customers by handling each and every customer call in a courteous; and professional manner,
- Ensures consistently imparts the correct product and services information during each call.
- Obtains; imparts; clarifies and verifies information to and/or from customers to ensure delivery of exceptional customer service
- Demonstrate appropriate levels of empathy in situations that require these skills; and provides customers with caring individualized attention.
- Accurately tags each call as per defined tagging list/CRM tagging list.
- Ensure that the quality of each call is in compliance with predefined quality parameters.
- Consistently contributes towards improving customer experience by identify potential areas for process/productivity improvements and highlights the same to the Team Leader.
- Utilises the relevant tools and resources provided by the Company to respond to customer queries and requests.
- Ensure strict adherence to established attendance schedules.
- Provides on the job training support to new team members to facilitate improvement in their levels of performance – through mentor / mentee relationship.
- Provides the relevant reports on a daily basis – where applicable.
- Appropriately escalates customer queries to the Team Leader to ensure speedy resolution of the same.
- Ensures daily performance targets are met.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Must have completed 12 years of schooling
- Degree or Diploma will be an added advantage
- Excellent listening skills; uses appropriate probing techniques to facilitate clear understanding of queries and thus provide appropriate and accurate solutions to customer queries.
- Good typing speed and computer skills, particularly with regard to Microsoft office applications
- Good communication skills including a clear voice; and fluency in English and local languages pertaining to the respective location.
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Ability to maintain a calm disposition particularly in stressful work situations.
- Displays a positive attitude; ability to remain positive and energetic throughout a work day.
- Updates self on products and services by reading new product information; and participating in training opportunities
- Updates own market intelligence on comparative product and services
WORK CONDITIONS:
- Ability to work any shift in a 24/7 work environment including odd hours; weekends and public holidays
- Ability to work extra hours to meet business needs
- To reside within reasonable travel distance to the office, as defined by the Company; to facilitate ease of transport arrangements – where applicable
- May be required to undergo periodic medical examination to assess own suitability for continued employment at the Call Center
YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE:-
Customer service experience in a call center environment depends on entry level.
Good level of understanding of the operations process and product knowledge depends on entry level.
Job description:
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES:
Customer Focus
- Proactively works with customers to establish rapport
- Demonstrates good knowledge and understanding of products and services; including their benefits; usage and features
- Projects self-confidence when dealing with customers
- Presents a professional, friendly and caring image to the customer
- Consistently seeks to provide high standards of customer service Team work
- Supports colleagues by assisting in customer contacts within area of expertise
- Adheres to schedules by being punctual to work at all times, and recognises the impact of nonschedule adherence to team performance.
- Provides on the job coaching and developmental support to new hires to facilitate quick learning.
Communication
- Communicates effectively with customers; by adapting an appropriate communication style.
- Communicates with logic and facts to persuade customers Performance Focus
- Consistent in meeting performance standards despite repetition of tasks
- Keeps tracks of own results and achievements against target and takes corrective action where applicable
- Proactively seeks assistance in an effort to improve own performance
Managing self
- Demonstrates enthusiasm even when dealing with routine work.
- Takes personal responsibility to develop self by setting own personal objectives and goals.
- Confident in one’s abilities
Analytical
• Identifies patterns on customer issues/queries; and suggests solutions to the Team Leader
Adaptability
- Responds positively to changing work requirements or team changes to ensure effective work performance is maintained
- Accepts and adapts to the changing work environment
Intergrity
- Demonstrates high levels of integrity.
Disclaimer
This job description gives a general guideline, and therefore does not include an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities undertaken by jobholders of this position. Ison Bpo reserves the right to change/amend/add other duties to job holder(s) of this position.