Customer Service Team Leader

Yorkshire Building Society Group; Bradford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in Bradford seeks a Customer Services Team Leader to lead a dedicated team, ensuring exceptional customer service across various channels. The ideal candidate will have a robust background in service delivery and team leadership, with a passion for developing others. This role offers a flexible work environment and numerous benefits including competitive salary, bonus opportunities, and a supportive career development path.

Benefits

25 days of holiday plus bank holidays

Performance bonus of up to 15%

Pension contributions of up to 11%

Access to private medical insurance

Discounts via self-service benefits portal

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading and developing teams for customer service.
• Experience in identifying and delivering continuous improvements.
• Strong knowledge of Savings and mortgage telephony.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire the Customer Services team.
• Ensure good customer outcomes across various channels.
• Drive performance and improve digital customer services.

Skills

Customer focus

Team leadership

Service delivery

Empathy

Conflict management

Job description

Our Customer Services Team Leader position is a role where you make a positive impact, create high performing teams and make a real difference to colleagues and customers.

About the role

As Customer Services Team Leader, you’ll be leading and inspiring your team to prioritise and consistently deliver good customer outcomes across our Telephony, Digital and Administration channels, including complaints and vulnerable customer treatment.

You’ll be confident developing talent to drive performance and empower colleagues to exceed customer expectations by delivering joyful experiences. You will be present and involved in the delivery of your teams work and ensure that colleagues feel engaged and are delivering good customer outcomes whilst providing members a properly personalised experience.

You’ll be an expert coach to support your team to provide an empathetic service whilst focusing on increasing their digital literacy to enable customers to acquire the skills to self-serve and reduce failure demand. In addition, you’ll be looking at opportunities to service customers end to end at the first contact by identifying and delivering efficiencies. It’s imperative that you have a real passion to reach for better.

This role will reward you with variety as you will get the opportunity to work over different functions across our Customer Services function, providing you with an abundance of transferable skills to grow and build a career in YBS.

About you

You’ll be experienced in leading and developing customer focused colleagues who deliver good customer outcomes. This experience could be from a coaching/developing or leadership role and should be coupled with;

• Experience of service delivery and leading through change
• Proven experience of identifying and delivering continuous improvements
• A balanced and measured approach to managing conflicting priorities
• A good knowledge of Savings and Mortgage telephony, digital inbound servicing, complaints, vulnerable customer treatment
• A genuine passion for developing others and yourself

About us

At YBS we don’t have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you’ll be respected for who you are, you’ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you’ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.

Flexibility

We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we/${can}=help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime to discuss this during the recruitment process.

Development

We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we’re committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey. From day one, we’ll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to getكَ you up to speed quickly.

Inclusivity

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you’ll go the extra mile to help our members, you’ll fit right in and feel you belong here.

About our Benefits

We offer lots of fantastic rewards that you can make the most of in and out of work, including:

• Holiday. You’ll get 25 bewe plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
• Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals were all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
• Pension. We know how important it is to save nauwelijks toward the future, that’s why we’ll contribute up 11% into your YBS pension.
• Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you’ll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your المنتخب including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
• My Benefits. When you join YBS you’ll have access to our self-service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts.

Ready to apply?

If you’re excited about this role and want to be part of the YBS team, click apply now to send us your application.

Please note: Internally this will be known as 'Customer Support Team Leader'