Customer Care Team Leader - German speaking

Milton Keynes
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Customers & Products
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Business Support Group
Job Description:

Register your interest in future roles for Customer Care Team Leader - German speaking, for fixed term 6 months at our Milton Keynes site.

Here at bp pulse, we're energising the future of transportation by developing fast and convenient charging solutions for consumer and commercial electric vehicles. Over the course of more than 10 years, we have designed and developed innovative electric vehicle charging solutions that enable EV drivers to charge at home, at work and on the go. On our mission to make charging fast and hassle-free, our charging points have been used over 35 million times to enable around 200 million miles of zero tailpipe emission driving globally.

We are looking for an experienced German Speaking Customer Care Team Leader to join our team, managing a team of customer care advisors handling  a diverse variety of inbound and outbound communications with customers, including calls, emails and live chats from customers across Europe,
UK & USA. Our contact centre is open 365 days a year 24 hours day supporting our customers on the go with their charging needs.

Role Responsibilities

Coaching: To act as a coach and mentor for their team, while also communicating  essential  company  messaging.  Team  leaders  should  both assess the performance of their team and guide and motivate them to improve.

Motivation: To motivate their team and encourage them to drive performance.
Performance Management: To understand both the quantitative and qualitative
aspects of performance, and to clearly explain performance and its drivers to all relevant parties.

Communication:  Act  is  an  interface  between  department  management  and
customer care agents, ensuring good communication.

Customer Focus: To use their deep understanding of all our customer journeys,
and help agents gain an empathetic understanding of customer needs to assist
in driving customer service levels.

Behaviours: To model the behaviours we expect from customer care agents.

Standardisation: To maintain an awareness of the department beyond just their
team,  to  ensure  there  are  standardised  ways  of  working  across  Customer
Care. To understand the cultural differences of the global markets we support and coach  their  teams  to  apply  differing  approaches  in  their  communication  with customers.

Role Requirements:

Fluent in German

Experience managing a team, preferably in a contact centre environment

The ability to effectively motivate and performance manage teams in a fast-paced environment

Interpersonal skills with the ability to develop effective relationships at a variety of levels both within the team and with the client and customers.

A high level of organisational, planning and time management skills.

Experience driving quality in a customer-facing environment

Excellent communication skills.

Experience in a coaching or mentoring role

Results-orientated and target driven.

Computer literate (Outlook / Word / Excel).

Preferred: Working knowledge of Amazon Connect, Salesforce

This role will sometimes require flexibility outside of normal production hours to undertake & engage with the BP Pulse 24-hr operation.

Preferred but not required: Working knowledge of Amazon Connect, Salesforce Service Cloud.

Additional information:

This role is working 40 hours per week across 5 days out of 7. Working hours between 07:00am – 10:00pm.

This role is a 6-month fixed term contract.

We offer hybrid working – 60% of shifts must be worked from our Milton Keynes based office.

Shifts will be provided in regular blocks with varying start and end times.

Why join our team?

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and many others benefits.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.

Apply now!

Travel Requirement

No travel is expected with this role
Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation
Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working
Skills:

Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Business process improvement, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Conflict Management, Creativity and Innovation, Customer centric thinking, Customer enquiries, Customer experience, Customer value proposition, Digital fluency, Resilience, Sustainability awareness and action, Understanding Emotions, Workload Prioritization
Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please .

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks

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