Shoprite Group Customer Care / Call Centre Jobs in Cape Town
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Purpose of the Job
The purpose of the Customer Service Agent role is to provide our customers with the best customer service experience.This role will answer questions, resolve any emerging problems, and provide product / service information with accuracy and efficiency to our customers as needed. The role is a critical part of company's frontline company support, ensuring customers’ requests are actioned with a sense of urgency, care, and understanding.
The Customer Services Agent ensures that customer calls and concerns are properly considered, captured on the system, and resolved with the goal of creating an exceptional experience in an environment of shared team knowledge. To ensure that we optimise our service delivery to our customers and align with our teams, this role the working hours are a 45-hour work week scheduled according to a planned weekly schedule (any five days from Monday to Sunday (shift work), including public holidays) within legislative requirements.
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Job Objectives
- Delivering high quality customer service and continually contributing towards a culture of customer service excellence – being passionate about the customer experience!
- Managing all incoming calls and communicating clearly with our customers, providing support pertaining to questions, resolution of any emerging problems and product / service information with accuracy.
- Being proactive to urgent/emergency situations in accordance with product/service guidelines.
- Providing timely escalation of requests and updating our customers on the progress of resolution.
- Remaining knowledgeable of performance requirements, brands, products, campaigns, and process documentation – being passionate about your own development!
- Ensuring all service level goals are understood and achieved.
- Taking the necessary steps to drive up customer retention.
- Following all set Shoprite standards, policies and procedures and providing input when something is not working as well as it should.
- Proactively seeking ways to continuously improve the customer experience.
- Taking initiative and assist teammates in need, where possible (example: with knowledge transfer or language barrier with customer).
- Supporting other responsibilities that may be assigned from time to time.
Qualifications
Essential
- Grade 12 / Matric
Beneficial
- Degree/Diploma or Courses in Communications or a related field.
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Experience
Essential
- +5 years’ experience in a Customer Services environment or similar role.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office 365, including SharePoint Online
Desired
- Experience in a retail / contact centre environment
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