Customer Service Planner

Johnson Controls Inc.; Sunbury-on-Thames; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading building technology firm based in Sunbury-on-Thames is seeking a Customer Service Planner to manage scheduling and support installation teams. This role requires strong customer service skills and involves optimising engineer productivity and ordering materials efficiently. The ideal candidate will thrive in a dynamic environment and have opportunities for career development. Offering competitive salary and generous leave options.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Generous & Flexible Leave Entitlement

Comprehensive Benefits

Exclusive Discounts

Career Development

Qualifications

• Customer Service experience is mandatory.
• Computer literate required.
• Scheduling or planning experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage all inbound and outbound telephone activity.
• Maximise engineer productivity through optimising resource utilisation.
• Order materials in a timely manner for customer visits.

Skills

Customer Service experience

Computer literate

Job description

.Customer Service Planner page is loaded## Customer Service Plannerlocations: GBR Sunbury-on-Thamestime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: WD30256314**What you will do**Our Planners/Dispatchers provide support to the branch Installation Teams to ensure full utilisation of engineers through planning, scheduling, and tracking of customer appointments. Working with the Field Line Managers to ensure any risk situations are resolved, ensuring customers appointments go ahead as planned, with the risk of no-shows kept to a minimum.**What we offer*** **Competitive Salary:** Reflecting your skills and experience.* **Generous & Flexible Leave Entitlement:** 25 days of annual leave* **Holiday Purchase Scheme:** Buy up to 10 additional days, increasing your total annual entitlement to the equivalent of up to 35 days.* **Comprehensive Benefits:** Including pension plan (up to 7% employer contribution match), life assurance, employee assistance program, and referral scheme.* **Exclusive Discounts:** With high street brands, cycle-to-work scheme, and discounts on Johnson Controls security products.* **Career Development:** Extensive opportunities for growth and advancement.**How you will do it*** Manage all inbound and outbound telephone activity, providing cover for all areas within the UK.* Maximise engineer productivity through optimising the utilisation of available resource, ensuring diaries are fully booked and correct hours are assigned for all work* Maximise resource utilisation, direct and sub contractor labour where available, with a view to minimising downtime/lead times* Ordering the material in a timely manner for customers visits, liaising with third party providers to ensure lead times are understood and agreed with the customer* Support in-field activities which the Planner can impact, such as providing job details to engineers for work the next day, payment for up sales on the day, scheduling return visits as required.**What we look for****Required*** Customer Service experience* Computer literate**Preferred*** Scheduling / planning experience* Industry experience#LI-MS2#LI-OnsiteYour buildings have a purpose. They are places for people to live or work. Facilities for learning or healing. Venues for entertainment and shopping. Sites for the specialized storage of tangible goods or mission-critical data. Your buildings have a huge variety of functions; they are central to your mission. This is where Johnson Controls comes in, helping drive the outcomes that matter most. Through a full range of systems and digital solutions, we make your buildings smarter. A smarter building is safer, more comfortable, more efficient, and, ultimately, more sustainable. Most important, smarter buildings let you focus more intensely on your unique mission. Better for your people. Better for your bottom line. Better for the planet.At Johnson Controls, we’ve been making buildings smarter since 1885, and our capabilities, depth of innovation experience, and global reach have been growing ever since. Today, we offer the world’s largest portfolio of building products, technologies, software, and services; we put that portfolio to work to transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play.