Client Service Escalation Specialist, CoStar - London
CLIENT SERVICE ESCALATION SPECIALIST, COSTAR - LONDON
OVERVIEW
CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights, and connections that improve their businesses and lives.
We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed, and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.
CoStar is the global leader in commercial real estate information, analytics, and news. Commercial Real Estate industry professionals around the globe use CoStar to access the most comprehensive data to make decisions with confidence. CoStar delivers immediate, verified commercial real estate information on over 5.9 million properties across every market.
DESCRIPTION
As a CoStar Customer Service Escalation Specialist, you will be responsible for supporting and managing escalations while maintaining the relationships between departments and servicing client needs by providing professional, efficient, helpful, and courteous support so that our customers have a world-class experience, resulting in satisfaction and continual renewal of their subscriptions on the CoStar suite of products and services. In this role, you will be the escalated representative for all customer (external) issues answering calls/emails from CoStar’s customers, prospects, and other departments (internal) within the business on a wide variety of issues.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Be the customer’s (external & internal) point of contact for any escalated questions related to our products, research, billing, etc.
* Answer incoming calls; diagnose technical and application calls from customers, sales, and other departments ensuring the customer’s needs have fully been resolved.
* Second tier of support for other departments. Take escalated calls and provide consultation on policies and procedures as well as technical support for CoStar products and applications. Provide other departments direct feedback after case resolution.
* Take ownership of cases until they are fully resolved to ensure the customer’s experience is world-class.
* Use negotiation and outstanding customer service to handle escalated calls from internal and external customers.
* Provide product knowledge and skills training on a one-to-one basis with customers and/or other departments.
* Support sales colleagues to ensure the world-class standard of customer service is maintained.
* Assist customers with usage of applications including problem-solving application and network-related issues and running complimentary standard reports when customers need them and are unable to access our program(s) for technical reasons.
* Track and coordinate escalated customer issues which require management response. Ensure follow-up and all concerns for possible trending analysis. Proactively recognize and alert others to trends impacting customer service.
* Enter actions for all customer contact in CRM including notes detailed enough that subsequent users can track your actions.
* Diagnose and resolve software program problems with malfunctioning electro/mechanical equipment or software applications and recommend corrective action.
* Responsible for researching, replicating, performing root cause analysis and providing feedback for product issues reported by customers. Research and communicate new solutions based on client needs/requests.
* Responsible for providing exhaustive and complete troubleshooting.
* Promote teamwork and cooperative effort.
QUALIFICATIONS
* Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
* Experience in customer service, building rapport over the telephone and overcoming objections.
* Knowledge of commercial real estate preferred.
* Excellent interpersonal skills (Communication, Conflict Resolution, Negotiation, etc.) when dealing with internal and/or external audiences at all levels of management.
* Ability to deliver results while working to deadlines under pressure.
* Ability to plan and organize workload in a fast-paced environment.
* Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing situations at a high growth company.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. As well as having an outstanding working environment based in iconic buildings the Shard and Blue Fin or one of our key UK-wide hubs. Other perks include full private medical cover, dental cover, Life Assurance, and member rewards, 28 days annual leave, a competitive pension, season ticket loans, enhanced maternity and paternity pay, and much more!
At CoStar, we recognize the positive value of diversity and promote equality. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs. However, we particularly encourage applications from women, disabled, and Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, as these groups are underrepresented throughout the commercial real estate industry.
CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
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