Service Desk Team Leader

5 days ago

Fareham, United Kingdom Specsavers Full time

For over three decades our purpose hasn’t changed: we are here to make a positive difference to the lives of all. Through the exceptional products, services and value we offer - is what sets us apart. At Specsavers we promise to make you feel good, smart and cared for.

**Main Purpose of Role**

Our Core purpose is to drive down the volume and duration of our customer’s technology problems, whilst operating within a culture of respect and care.

We are looking for someone who can be based at either our Nottingham, Fareham or Guernsey offices, The choice is yours

You will coordinate teams of technical experts, Third parties, In house teams and business owners. Finding innovative solutions and facilitating effective collaboration to resolve incidents and requests. Ensuring accuracy and consistency across everything you and your team do. Driving our:
80% of calls answered in 60 seconds

70% of incidents fixed within 2 hours

80% of incidents fixed next business day

90% of Incidents fixed in week

100% of incidents fixed in 14 days.

Regularly review TCS processes to ensure they are fit for purpose and support our customer needs. Making recommendations where improvements are identified.

You must be adept at creating effective relationships with key stakeholders including senior leaders and operational managers across Specsavers lines of business, earning their confidence, trust and respect. You will be able to communicate clearly and proactively with senior leaders and other key stakeholders, proactively avoiding escalations and ensuring common understanding of status and outcomes. Representing the Voice of the customer in all things.

You will need excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build rapport easily to manage difficult and challenging customers.

**Key Responsibilities**

The Technology Customer Service Team leaders are responsible for several key roles within the TCS Team as allocated by the Customer Service Desk Manager:

- Inbound (Telephony, Chat and Portal)
- Outbound (Outstanding incidents and call-backs)
- Escalation Management
- Training
- Administration (1-2-1s, Rota management, New Service take on, team communications and change)
- Desktop (Management of onsite Corporate Desktop support teams across 2 locations, Incident management and Service Requests, VIP support)
- Duty Manager (Primary on-call Team leader, Major Incident engagement, Stand-in for the TCS manager)

This is a position ideally suits someone with:

- A passion for providing excellent customer service
- Strong communication skills
- Good performance under pressure with the ability to offer alternative solutions to problems
- A comprehensive technical background
- The ability to drive and influence teams to reach an agreed path of action quickly to resolve incidents.
- Strong leadership skills, inspiring a happy, motivated team.

**Skills and Experience**

A qualified person will demonstrate:
**Essential Skills**
- Proficient people management experience with ability to clearly develop and lead a team.
- Proven ability to perform 1-2-1s and co-ordinate and perform regular team briefings.
- Excellent communication skills, to all levels.
- Experience in the recruitment of exceptional customer driven people
- Previous solid experience delivering and leading a team of professionals in a fast-moving support environment.
- Proven ability in terms of MI reporting against pre agreed SLA and OLA.
- Ability to drive a team to deliver high performance and be able to enhance processes to ensure continuous improvement.
- Be able to prioritise competing deadlines and objectives.

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