Customer Support Advisor

3 months ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Protective Packaging Ltd Full time

Our Customer Support Representatives are the first point of contact in our client’s journey and are therefore incredibly important us, which means we are looking for a customer service superstar, who can genuinely connect with our clients, while getting things done.

We are a fast-growing packaging business based at our brand-new manufacturing site and offices in Carrington and are one of the few UK businesses that has become carbon neutral. Our business is well established and growing, and has a leading reputation within the packaging solutions world.

The successful Customer Service Advisor join a high performing team and will be responsible for ensuring our customers receive a seamless journey when finding their perfect packaging solutions. You will handle both inbound and outbound customer queries as well as being responsible for routing calls throughout the business where necessary. The Customer Support Advisor will manage a business-to-business client base on a daily basis, helping our customers find exactly what they need.

Protective Packaging is a leading UK-based, multinational manufacturer of climatic packaging solutions. From our base in Carrington, Greater Manchester, we produce and distribute a wide range of foil packaging. We pride ourselves on ISO 9001:2015 standards, demonstrating our commitment to quality and the provision of outstanding customer service.

The requirements for this role are to professionally advise and help customers of the products available and to facilitate the processing of orders accurately on to the internal computerised system and send out order acknowledgements ensuring an excellent service is provided to customers at all times. Furthermore the Customer Support Advisor will produce job sheets, cutting lists and going out lists for the production and dispatch teams from the computerised system and will organise the production and dispatch of appropriate samples.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Providing help and advice to customers on our products and services
- Organising the production and dispatch of appropriate samples
- Processing orders accurately on to a computerised system and sending out order acknowledgements
- Producing job sheets, cutting lists and going out lists for the production and dispatch teams from the computerised system
- Collating all paperwork in preparation for invoicing
- Liaising with freight companies
- Investigating and solving customers’ problems
- Handling customer complaints
- Making accompanied sales calls
- Support internal sales initiatives
- Personal responsibility for learning about the Company products and services and keeping up to date with any changes
- Personal responsibility for achieving training objectives (Technical training to be provided)
- Develop and ensure excellent communications, both verbal and written, between Customer Support and internal and external customers
- Foster close working relationships with associated departments eg. Sales, HR, Production, Warehouse, Accounts Etc.
- Providing help and advice to customers using Company products and services
- Handling customer complaints
- Producing written information for customers, often involving use of computer packages/software
- Being proactive in upselling and cross-selling opportunities when responding to customer enquiries

**Personal Profile and Key Skills**:

- Ability to take a proactive approach to overcome challenges and achieve results
- Confident decision maker
- Versatile, tenacious and people orientated
- Self-driven
- Good communication skills
- Ability to cope in a fast-moving environment
- Good numeracy and literacy skills
- Accuracy of inputting information
- Well-presented and professional
- Organised and ability to multi-task
- Excellent attention to detail
- A good planner
- “Hands on” approach to all tasks
- Technically minded
- Keen to learn
- Result orientated and confident
- Ability to approach problems in a systematic fashion
- Keen to understand product base and systems procedures

**Knowledge and Experience**:

- Minimum 1 years previous experience in a customer service role
- High competency level in use of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, as a minimum)

**Salary**: up to £22,000

**Starting Date**: Immediate

**Location**: Carrington, Greater Manchester

**Job type**: Permanent and full-time

**Reporting to**:Commercial Manager

**Working hours**: Monday to Thursday 08:00-17:00 and Fridays 08:00-16:10

**Objectives related bonus**: 3% of salary paid quarterly, rising to 5% after probation

Work Remotely
- No

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: Up to £22,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme
- Quarterly bonus

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: CSA001



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