Customer Support Advisor (Fixed Term Contract until April 2026)

About the role

Reporting to the Customer Support and Insights Manager, the Customer Support Advisor connects with customers wherever they want to be met and ensures that their queries, compliments, complaints, and feedback are heard. The aim is to have good conversations that convert into great experiences.

As a Customer Support Advisor, you will be responsible for feeding the voice of the customer back to the relevant stakeholders. You will be responsible for 1-2 areas of ownership and will contribute to the measure of customer satisfaction and shaping of continuous improvement strategies.  

What you’ll be doing 

• Effectively and efficiently respond to customer contact within agreed KPI’s and SLA’s over multiple channels including live-chat, email, phone call, 3rd party review sites and social media, whilst recording all required data elements and following established procedures
• Investigate, respond to and close customer complaints in relation to the airport journey or product experience (e.g., car parking, fast track) and work with relevant stakeholders to review CCTV footage or data records e.g., eGate or ANPR timestamps
• Work with the Environmental Noise Advisor to understand, investigate and respond to customer contact in relation to the airport flight path and associated noise
• Champion at least one feedback stakeholder area where you will lead monthly/quarterly meetings. Using the most up-to-date customer contact reports, data, and surveys, you will provide insight into satisfaction, sentiment, wants and desires. You will also provide suggestions for continuous improvement to stakeholders and relevant projects
• Provide off-season support to relevant stakeholders where necessary such as: volume recruitment, holiday decorations, and industry benchmarking

What we’re looking for

This role requires the successful candidate to obtain a Counter Terrorist Check, so you must have been living in the UK for the last 3 consecutive years

• Essential: Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build positive relationships with customers and business stakeholders
• Essential: Strong ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing, with great telephone manner, high energy, and ample enthusiasm
• Essential: A passion for delivering excellent customer service
• Essential: Attention to detail, ability to prioritise, and effective time management skills
• Essential: Ability to work independently and self-manage priorities where required.
• Essential: Tech savvy, comfortable administering and switching between multiple systems

The following additional items would be nice to have, but are not essential for the role:

• Desired: Experience in Hospitality, Travel and Tourism, or a related discipline
• Desired: Understanding of airport operations and processes impacting the passenger journey
• Desired: Experience working with customer relationship management (CRM) platforms e.g., Zendesk, Salesforce, and/or social media platforms e.g., Twitter, Facebook
• Desired: Confident user of Microsoft Office software incl. PowerPoint, Word, and Excel
• Desired: Experience working in a Support Centre environment
• If your experience looks slightly different to what we’ve listed here, we encourage you to still apply. You could add something we didn’t know we needed.

What we’ll offer you

• Pension scheme- employer contributions can be up to 7%
• 256 hours holiday, based on full time roles, increasing with service
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Supporting your health and wellbeing- private healthcare after 1 years’ service, access to our Employee Assistance Programme and occupational health services
• Free car parking on site and when you go on holiday

Vacancy type: Temporary

Closing date: 02/12/2024

Salary: £25,306 + a shift allowance of £6,672/year