Customer Service Advocate (6556)

Brierley Hill, England, United Kingdom

11/29/2024

Customer Service Advisor

Hybrid Working Available - Based in Brierley Hill, Dudley (3 days a week in the office)

No matter where you are in your career – or where you want to be – we’re here to create a great place to work where you can grow, perform and love what you do. At Cromwell, we’re all individuals, with unique backgrounds and personalities. But we have one thing in common: delivering exceptional service for our customers. And we do this through our purpose of Keeping Industry Working.

The role

Our Customer Service team is looking for a Customer Service Advisor to join our growing team to deliver a professional, credible and timely service which supports the needs of our customers, suppliers and stakeholders, and offering a best-in-class service with a single call resolution philosophy.

What will you do on a normal day?

• Providing a remarkable customer service that drives customers to return to Cromwell time and time again through superior communication skills.
• Resolving customer issues promptly and accurately in a manner that will promote customer loyalty, liaising between the customer, branch network, sales communities and suppliers via communication channels as necessary.
• Ensuring pricing quotations are consistent, competitive and profitable, ensuring adherence to sales and pricing policies, including discount levels are processed within agreed SLAs.
• Upselling Cromwell products and getting involved with product promotions with our customers.
• Progressing quotes with customers on a regular basis and in line with company guidelines to determine if we have been successful with our quote and recording the outcome in line with correct procedures and systems.
• Dealing with customer enquiries effectively for example: application, product, stock, invoices, POD’s, returns handling and any other general enquiry.
• Facilitating requests for new account opening, catalogue requests and updating contact details through the correct channels whilst ensuring that all orders are entered onto the business system.
• Informing customers of insufficient stocks or back orders against their purchase order and advising of substitute or alternative products. Liaising with external suppliers, sourcing products and availability where necessary. Ensuring an accurate due date is added to the order where a backorder is in place.
• Informing customers if their account is on stop at the time of placing an order and working with the customer and Credit Control where necessary to resolve any issues.
• Processing payments and refunds for credit card orders in a timely manner and in compliance with PCI and GDPR requirements.
• Ensuring all customer complaints are dealt with and brought to a satisfactory and timely conclusion in line with Customer Resolution Teams guidelines
• Maintaining appropriate record systems, complying with document retention and data protection requirements
• Maintaining effective communication throughout all levels of the customer services function, keeping the customer always informed whilst building strong relationships.
  
  
  

What are we looking for?

• Previous Customer Service experience required.
• Basic sales skills preferred.
• Planning, time management and organisational ability including the ability to multi-task.
• Good computer application skills inc. Microsoft Office applications.
• SalesForce, NiceIn Contact preferred but not essential, as training will be given.
• Industry product knowledge would be useful, but is not essential.
• Flexibility and adaptability.
• Business and interpersonal communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
  
  
  

What's in it for you?

• Competitive annual leave allowance with annual purchase scheme
• Hybrid-working opportunities
• Monthly-paid Customer Service bonus
• Group Personal Pension
• Company Funded Healthcare Cash Plan
• Yearly company bonus
• Cycle to work scheme
• Commitment to employee development plans
• 24/7 Wellbeing and Employee Support”
  
  
  

Other benefits include: Company Sick Pay, Company Maternity & Paternity Pay, Discount Benefits Platform and Discounted Cromwell Products.