Customer Service Specialist

Yu Energy; Leicester; On-site; GBP 24,000 - GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing energy company in Leicester is seeking a Customer Service Specialist to join their team. This role involves resolving customer inquiries, managing account issues, and ensuring excellent service delivery. The ideal candidate will have a strong customer service background, effective communication skills, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. You will enjoy various employee benefits, including annual leave and opportunities for personal development.

Benefits

24 days annual leave + bank holidays

Holiday buy – up to 5 additional days

Day off on your birthday

Employee Assistance Programme

Annual salary review

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Previous experience in the Energy Industry preferred but not essential.
• Proven Customer Service experience required.
• Ability to manage a changing workload.

Responsibilities

• Provide solutions to customer inquiries via calls and emails.
• Resolve customer accounts within agreed service levels.
• Manage customer dissatisfaction and complaints effectively.

Skills

Effective decision-making skills

Proactive relationship building

Good Office 365 skills

Customer service experience

Excellent communication skills

Attention to detail

Target orientation

Tools

Office 365

Job description

Customer Service Specialist

Department: YUR - 2080 - Customer Services

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Leicester

Reporting To: Customer Success Team Leader

Compensation: £24,570 - £26,000 / year

Overview

Reports to: Customer Success Team Leader

Location: Leicester Office, LE3 5BZ

Working hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours a week

Salary: £24,570 - £26,000 (Bonus subject to performance and KPI’s)

We are looking to expand our Customer Success Team to our Leicester office, due to continued success & growth and have created an exciting opportunity for an experienced Customer Success Specialist, ensuring an excellent standard of service is provided and maintained to our Yu Energy customers.

Customer Success Specialists ensure that our company delivers the highest quality to our customers by using their skills, expertise, and experience.

Our company is growing at a rapid pace so it is an exciting opportunity to join an organisation which can offer a long-term future career.

What We Need from Yü

Here’s a taste of what you’ll be doing:

• Provide solutions to the broad range of written and verbal enquiries raised by customers. Your primary objective will be to deliver a successful first contact resolution wherever possible.
• Resolving specific customer accounts within agreed service level agreements.
• Support the collection and maintenance of customer data to enable efficient servicing of customers.
• To develop and maintain a good understanding of the systems and processes available to ensure customer queries are recorded / noted up accordingly.
• To monitor, action and escalate any issue as appropriate in order to ensure all queries raised & third parties are kept informed and updated with progress.
• To create accurate records containing all relevant information to enable requests to be resolved to the timelines and standards required.
• Liaise with non-customer facing teams to handle complex customer enquiries and resolve the query with the customer.
• Proactively recognise opportunities to take customer payments and collect revenue.
• Proactively identify sales opportunities to renew/cross sell available Yü Energy products.
• Ensure that all customer enquiries are managed, resolved, and closed within agreed timescales.
• Managing any customer dissatisfactions, escalations and complaints from beginning to end with a passion for resolving issues. This includes the management of complaints referred to Ombudsman service and EHU.
• Investigating and verifying change of tenancy requests following process maps to determine the correct outcome is delivered and minimise risk to the business.
• Managing and closing assigned account renewal opportunities, Meter Upgrades, Cash collection and Payment Plans built into your KPIs.

About Yü

If you have what it takes you could be just what we’re looking for…

• Sharp – Effective decision-making skills to manage a changing workload.
• Proactive - Build strong relationships with other teams across the business.
• Office 365 – Good Office 365 skills including Excel, PowerPoint & Word Physical Requirements.
• Experienced – Previous experience in the Energy Industry would be desirable but not essential.
• Practiced – Proven Customer Service experience required.
• Great communicator – you have first-rate communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ambitious – you don’t just want another job; you want a career opportunity and a chance to work on your personal development.
• Analytical – naturally curious, immaculate attention to detail with the ability to spot risks within accounts and offer remedial action.
• Motivated – you have a “can do” attitude and love to see success.
• Team player – you enjoy working closely with a team to help them develop.
• Flexible – you’re a strong team player who can adapt as the role and business develops.
• Target Orientated – You have experience in hitting targets, managing your time effectively and identifying sales opportunities.

Yü Come First

We have a wide range of benefits for our employees including:

• 24 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Holiday buy – up to 5 additional days
• Day off on your birthday
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Annual salary review
• Learning and development opportunities
• Enhanced paternity, maternity and adoption policies
• Yü made a difference Awards
• 3 days additional annual leave if you get married/civil partnership etc.
• Appointment allowance
• Long service recognition
• Refer a friend payment
• Company sick pay (subject to length of service)
• New modern facilities
• Death in service and critical illness cover
• Plus, many more

This position does not fulfil the UK Visas & Immigration sponsorship criteria for Skilled Worker, therefore we can only accept applications from candidates who already have an indefinite right to work in the UK.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to help you apply for a role, please let us know and we will see what we can do.