Customer Sales Advisor

1 day ago

Barnstaple, United Kingdom Great Western Railway Full time

**Salary - **£27,534 p/a

**Who are we?**

GWR is the proud custodian of Brunel's railway - one of the most prestigious networks in the world. We have some of the newest trains in the country and exciting plans to extend our services. With more than one hundred million passenger journeys each year, we carry people to over 275 stations in the South West, from Cornwall and South Wales to London, passing through beautiful country and some of the UK's top tourist destinations.

We are transforming the way people think about train travel, empowering our team of over 6,000 people from all different backgrounds to make it a great experience for our customers. Together, we will revalue rail as a very special way to travel - relaxing, fast, efficient, friendly and fun.

**About the team?**

We are looking for a Customer Sales Advisor to join our small customer focused team at Barnstaple Station.

**About the job?**

You will be required to sell a full range of tickets, assist customers with their journey plans and explore upselling opportunities during sales. You will need to be customer focused to enable you to resolve any customers/ticket related issues.

**Your main responsibilities will be**:

- Providing the highest level of customer service and being proactive to customer needs
- Accurately and impartially selling the full range of products and services to our customers in a friendly, professional and efficient manner
- Maximising opportunities for increased sales at ticket offices by adopting selling techniques and offering enhanced products to customers
- Carrying out routine maintenance and cleaning of ticket machines and IT equipment
- Accurately completing all accountancy and other associated documentation

**You'll need to be**:

- Able to deliver exceptional front line customer service
- Able to understand customer requirements and expectations
- A Self-starter with a can do attitude
- Confident when decision making
- Able to remain calm yet directive in a crisis
- Able to work to strict rules and procedures

**As a minimum you will need to have**:

- The ability to work as part of a team or independently
- Evidence of numerical ability
- Attention to detail
- Strong verbal and written communication skills

**About the location?**

Barnstaple is a small but busy station based on the outskirts of the town centre. An hourly train service into Exeter runs Monday to Sunday. Local buses stop just outside the front of the station_._

**Working pattern?**

Rotating days 4 day week hours 05.55 - 14.40 including weekends and bank holiday.

**Additional information?**

**The Reward?**

As well as a great team environment and comprehensive training, all GWR colleagues enjoy a range of benefits including on-going development, defined benefit pension scheme, free rail travel across the GWR network for you and your family, company-sponsored health care plan, discounted shopping and gym membership and an employee assistance programme.

We value our differences such as age, gender, LGBTQIA, ethnicity, religion and disability. We maintain zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice towards our colleagues, customers, and future talent.

We celebrate and encourage diversity of thought, progressive ways of working and seeing all our colleagues grow and thrive.

We review all roles and job descriptions to ensure they are accessible and, where possible, we support and provide flexible working options; we recommend that you refer to each vacancy description for further details.

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