Customer Service Advisor

**Job no**: 506469

**Work type**: Temporary full-time

**Location**: Plymouth

**Categories**: Operations

**Customer Service Advisor Level 1 (18 month FTC) - Plymouth**

**£21,000 to £25,000 With Excellent Benefits**
- Creating a better world, a better company, and a more fulfilling future _
- Calor is an exciting and inspiring company to work for, where investment in our people's skills and knowledge is integral to our success. We ensure a supportive and inclusive working environment which is underpinned by our culture of expertise, safety and trust. These things allow us to lead the way in terms of sustainability, innovation and personal development._
- As the lead supplier in the UK LPG market, things rarely stand still for us. From humble beginnings, and as part of SHV Energy, Calor has continued to develop and diversify, ensuring that our service offering is expansive, progressive and relevant to our customers. It is our people that enable us to do that, which is why they are the heart of our business._

The Customer Experience team at Calor Gas are looking to recruit an engaging and proactive Customer Service Advisor Level 1***

To provide a primary point of contact for external customers via the phone and in written correspondence, directly resolving matters on first contact where appropriate

Customers and ensures that queries are correctly answered on first contact where possible

Undertakes an initial on the spot risk assessment and makes quick decisions in a pressured environment to resolve a call in the most appropriate way

Works to set quality standards, targets and service levels within a real time environment to deliver and enhance personal and departmental performance

Maintains accurate records by logging and tracking all calls in the CRM system ensuring that all relevant systems are up to date

Ensures that own knowledge is kept up to date and retained to enable correct information to be provided to customers and colleagues, adapts quickly and confidently to changes to processes and information provided

Uses skills and experience to handle calls with vulnerable customers with empathy and resilience

**Key responsibilities will include**:

- Answer Inbound Calls
- Make Outbound calls
- To capture and progress customer orders
- Undertake administration of customers’ accounts ensuring requirements are processed in a timely and accurate manner to avoid re-work and maximise customer satisfaction
- Take every opportunity to promote Calor services to the customer
- Be receptive to complaints or problems, research, resolve customer complaints within given parameters, and be aware of possible solutions to make informed decisions and own the problem
- Agree and achieve both quantitative and qualitative service standard performance targets and objectives with the Team Leader (TL) and ensure they are delivered to
- Be able to work and co-operate as part of a team, assisting and supporting colleagues, TL’s and other departments, when necessary
- Assist in developing processes for constant improvement for the benefit of the customer and Calor’s business goals
- To stay focused and motivated with a positive attitude towards learning, growth and change
- Be able to challenge yourself and others to make step changes in knowledge, experience, skills and behavior, and share knowledge of best practice
- Delivering and maintaining team performance targets
- Capture, maintain and ensure quality and safety of customer data
- Identifying, highlighting and escalating any service-related issues

**As such we would like you to have/be**:

- Have excellent communication and relationship building skills and demonstrate real care about the customer through a consultative and listening approach
- Have a strong sense of ownership and take pride in your work
- Be well organized and able to work under pressure
- Have excellent attention to detail
- Have good IT systems knowledge
- Able to work in an environment of high volume of call

We look for people who are open minded, embrace new ways of working, step out of their comfort zone seek out new opportunities and look to continuously learn. Opportunities to progress, to develop and to be recognised for your achievements are part of our daily life, and we want to share that with you Together with your commitment, drive and personal performance, we believe you can bring out the best in yourself at Calor.

We look forward to hearing from you
- To be considered for the above opportunity you must be eligible to live and work in the UK._
- If you are successful in being offered this role, you will be required to carry out pre-employment checks including but not limited to a medical assessment and DBS (basic disclosure) check._
- Calor Gas Ltd. _is committed to the fair treatment of its staff, potential staff or users of its services, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependants, age, physical/mental disability or offendi