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Customer Service Apprentice - Barnstaple

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Job Description
About the Role
To provide a service that books, as applicable, vehicles in and out for repair work in a manner that minimises customer waiting time and delivers high levels of customer satisfaction. Issuing courtesy cars and dealing with associated paperwork.
What You'll Do at Work
- Book customer cars in for repair/attention either by telephone or by way of personal visits. As a result of this, prepare job cards and files as necessary
- Maintain a filing system for job cards, invoices and associated paperwork and provide vehicle progress reports when requested by the customer
- On completion of the job, collect payment from the customer paying particular attention to banking/security arrangements and the payment of excesses on certain insurance policies
- Handling all relevant administration
Course Contents
- Business focused service delivery:
- Demonstrate a continuous improvement and future focussed approach to customer service delivery including decision making and providing recommendations or advice
- Resolve complex issues by being able to choose from and successfully apply a wide range of approaches
- Find solutions that meet your organisations needs as well as the customer requirements
- Providing a positive customer experience:
- Through advanced questioning, listening and summarising negotiate mutually beneficial outcomes
- Manage challenging and complicated situations within your level of authority and make recommendations to enable and deliver change to service or strategy
- Use clear explanations, provide options and solutions to influence and help customers make choices and agree next steps
- Explore and interpret the customer experience to inform and influence achieving a positive result for customer satisfaction
- Demonstrate a cost conscious mind-set when meeting customer and the business needs
- Identifying where highs and lows of the customer journey produce a range of emotions in the customer
- Use written and verbal communication to simplify and provide complex information in a way that supports positive customer outcome in the relevant format
- Working with customers/customer insights:
- Proactively gather customer feedback, through a variety of methods. Critically analyse, and evaluate the meaning, implication and facts and act upon it
- Analyse your customer types, to identify or anticipate their potential needs and expectations when providing your service
- Customer Service performance:
- Maintain a positive relationship even when you are unable to deliver the customer’s expected outcome
- When managing referrals or escalations take into account historical interactions and challenges to determine next steps
- Service Improvement:
- Analyse the end to end service experience, seeking input from others where required, supporting development of solutions
- Make recommendations based on your findings to enable improvement
- Make recommendations and implement where possible, changes in line with new and relevant legislation, regulations and industry best practice
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StrongYour economics background and your summer at a regional bank line up with what PwC looks for on the consulting scheme. Applications close in four weeks.
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- The apprentice will do their training in-house with the skills coach
- This will take place once every 28 days
- There is no college involved so no block release is required
Qualifications
- You will achieve a Customer Service Specialist Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard Qualification
- Level 1 EV Awareness
Career Progression
- The potential to work further up in the service department
- This could involve becoming an area service manager
Earnings
- Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
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