We are a fast growing, reputable and innovative company with a successful hybrid working style in this digital age. Hood Group is a dynamic, forward thinking customer management business that provides outsourced customer services for well-known UK trusted brands such as John Lewis Partnership and Ticker Insurance to name a couple. Are you looking for a role where you can represent a leading brand and deliver outstanding customer service? Join our team as a Customer Service Advisor in our Call Centre As a brand ambassador, you'll be building lasting relationships with our customers, promoting our values with every interaction and ensuring each customer receives an exceptional service. What will I do in the role? The most important part of the job – being our Brand Ambassador The first point of contact for all customer queries Handling a high volume of inbound and outbound customer calls Provide outstanding customer service across telephone, webchat and email. This is usually dealing with existing policies queries, changes, renewals, sales queries, payments and general policy administration. Make sure the customer is at the heart of every conversation Updating customer records as and when necessary. What do I need? Good customer service experience, ideally in a call centre A genuine passion and desire for delivering ‘excellent customer service’ Ability to be versatile in your approach to adapt your style for each customer Ensuring an empathetic approach for all our customers Strong written and verbal communication skills A true team player Strong IT skills; including the ability to compose emails, use Word, Excel, Outlook and other in-house databases Tech Savvy, be able to more from different systems, able to conduct more than one webchat at a time and able to pick up templates and amend as necessary for your customer enquiry. Have the drive and willingness to learn What are the working hours? 40 hours per week on a rotating shift basis, between the hours 8.00am–8.00pm, Monday to Friday, Saturdays, Sundays & Bank Holidays between the hours 9.00am-5.30pm. Why work for us? To be part of a fantastic, supportive team with great progression opportunities, with access to the following benefits; “The best job ever“ feeling We are offering 31 days annual leave (including bank holidays) Salary - £24,960.00-£27,040.00 per year Employee Assistance Programme Health & Wellbeing Programme Incentive of £250 on Refer a friend scheme Learning & Development assistance Programme Private Health Insurance Eye Care Vouchers Pension Scheme And there’s more benefits……. We have a new, modern, airy office based right in the heart of Southend-on-Sea, just off the high street. We will provide you with a laptop and any other professional equipment required and you will also receive a working from home allowance. We require you to have a fast & stable home fibre broadband, with a (proven) minimum consistent speed of 20mbps download & 10mbps upload, available at all times. We have a robust full time 4 weeks’ training programme that requires you to be in our office for the first 6 months of your employment and be able to travel to our Southend office on a regular basis.