Marks and Spencer
Customer Service Manager - Chester Support Centre
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Customer Service Team Manager
As a Customer Service Team Manager, you’ll lead and inspire a team of Customer Advisers to deliver exceptional service to every customer, every time. You will play a key role in driving customer satisfaction, managing performance, and protecting the M&S brand through effective service recovery and complaint resolution. This is a vital leadership role at the heart of our in-house operation.
This role is based in our Chester Support Centre full time.
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What you will do:
- Lead, coach and develop a team of 12 Customer Advisers, driving performance, capability and engagement.
- Deliver exceptional service recovery and achieve key customer targets (CSAT, service levels, FCR).
- Resolve escalated and complex customer issues while minimising brand, reputational and commercial risk.
- Monitor and improve quality and productivity through call listening, case reviews and KPI management.
- Collaborate across teams and act as Duty Manager as needed, ensuring smooth operation in a hybrid working environment.
Who you are:
- A confident and inspiring leader with a passion for developing others.
- A strong communicator who can adapt your message to different audiences.
- Highly organised, with the ability to manage performance, prioritise workloads and drive results.
- Someone who engages and motivates colleagues, creating a supportive and high‑performing environment.
- A true advocate for the customer, always representing their voice and needs.
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What’s in it for you?
Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.
Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:
- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation
- Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
- Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours
- Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
- Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
- Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
- Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
- 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
- One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you
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We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.
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