Customer Service Advisor

**Role -** Customer Service Advisor (Property Manager)

**Location - **Gateshead - NE8
**Salary**:

- £21,500 per annum
**Days & Hours**:

- Monday - Friday, plus 1 Sat in every 5 rota, 9am - 1pm
**Employment Type**:

- Full-time, 12 month Fixed Term Contract (possibility of permanent during the contract)

Are you looking to start or progress your career in the property industry?

Are you a strong administrator with a passion for providing excellent customer service? If so, we want to hear from you
- **Bridgfords: Countrywide**_ are seeking enthusiastic and passionate individuals to join an established Property Management team based within our vibrant team in Gateshead.

Our Property Managers play a pivotal role in ensuring that our customers and clients receive the service they deserve throughout their time with us; so we're on the lookout for those with great communication and relationship skills and a passion for property

**The role of a Customer Service Advisor (Property Manager)**:
You will be fully managing your own portfolio of properties through Newcastle and the surrounding areas in the North East, acting as a key contact for our tenants and landlords who require support throughout the duration of their tenancy. This could include:

- Managing repairs and maintenance
- Arranging Gas and Electrical safety records
- Booking end of tenancy check-outs
- Negotiating end of tenancy deposits
- Dealing with general tenancy queries
- Developing a competent understanding of lettings legislation to help and support customers throughout their tenancy (training provided)

**Skills & Attributes of a Customer Service Advisor (Property Manager)**:
We’re the UK Market Leader with a national reach; so it’s only natural that the needs of our customers will vary massively. If influence and negotiation are skills that come naturally to you, you’ll thrive when you’re communicating with our customers, partners and suppliers. You’ll need to be able to build rapport with customers with ease, so confidence conversationally and in writing is vital.

Similarly, you will be good at multi-tasking, be organised, and have confidence in your decision-making capabilities, because we want you to have ownership of decisions that will improve our customers' journey.

You will be a team player and be able to work collaboratively with colleagues and partners to achieve individual, team, and business targets.

What you get in return for a career as a Customer Service Advisor with Countrywide:

- 23 days annual leave increasing with long service
- Pension scheme
- Full training provided with excellent career progression opportunities throughout the business
- Outstanding discounts across retail, entertainment, travel and health

**Why join us as a Customer Service Advisor (Property Manager)?**

The Connells Group has recently acquired Bridgfords: Countrywide securing our place as the UK’s largest property services group. Our passion for property and strong focus on people set us apart. We don't see buying, selling, renting and letting as processes - for us, they're all about important, life-changing moments. Which is why we empower our people to create exceptional experiences.

The size and scale of our business will open up huge opportunities for you, whether you want to develop your experience in your current role, broaden your skills by taking on a different role in the wider business or progress upwards to take on more and more responsibility. Meanwhile, the fact that we're always highly responsive to change makes this an incredibly exciting and inspiring place to develop your career.

We are committed to developing our colleagues and to providing the highest quality service to our customers

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract

**Salary**: £21,500.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Health & wellbeing programme

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Work Location: In person