Client Services Manager: BluNova
Blue Label Telecoms
- Midrand, Johannesburg
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Acts as a bridge between the organization and potential clients, helping the organization grow
- Creates long-term value for the organization, supporting the scaling of operations by supporting strategic partnerships
- Researches and identifies prospective clients, understanding their needs, and tailoring compelling pitches to pique interest
- Supports and maintains a pipeline of leads, tracking client interactions by following the business development process and plans
- Establishes a network of invaluable connections within the industry by actively engaging with peers, industry experts, and potential collaborators to attract new clients and identify opportunities for existing clients
- Reviews and provides consultation to clients on their portfolios
- Schedules and facilitates regular meetings and maintains communication with all other supporters of assigned portfolios to allow for cross collaboration and knowledge sharing across the teams
- Ability to maintain a professional attitude while working in a fast-paced environment
- Possesses a creative and adaptable approach to problem-solving, pioneering inventive ways to engage potential client
- Focuses on customer service and experience to enhance the organisation’s reputation building a loyal customer following, to contribute to long-term success
- Leverages deep functional expertise in order to expand the customer’s use of existing products and to identify new products offerings
- Builds/maintains rapid channel of communication to customer in case of service- related issues and events
- Represents the “Voice of the Customer” and creates a culture of Customer
- Centricity by integrating a customer-centric approach into the business development strategy
- Engages with customers, addressing their concerns promptly, and exceeding their expectations to create a positive brand
- Has a proactive approach to customer service, actively seeking feedback, measuring customer satisfaction, and continuously refining the organisation’s offerings based on customer input
- Provides direction and leadership to cross-functional project resources (both internal and external), leveraging them to ensure delivery and client satisfaction
- Supports and manages client initiatives related to data quality, reporting, technology upgrades and implementations
- Develops a good understanding of the customer environment and uses this knowledge to proactively drive improvements and efficiencies in Customer Support
- Manages regulatory questions and communications
- Possesses excellent customer engagement and relationship development skills and the ability to articulate customer requirements and priorities
- Implements processes and systems to provide quick yet thorough responses to internal and external partner requests and requirements
- Manages partner requests, issues, questions, training on a day-to-day basis, including but not limited to end user production problem tracking
- Interfaces with internal product, technology, business and operations teams to ensure partner and end user satisfaction
- Keeps accurate records and document customer service actions and discussions
- Analyses statistics and compiles accurate reports
- Develops, tracks and reports key performance measurements for the unit
- Assesses and review customer complaints
- Tracks customer complaint resolution
- Monitors accuracy of reporting and data base information. Analyzes relevant data to determine customer service outputs
- Demonstrates advanced insights and understanding of customer’s business/industry and challenges appropriately the way a customer views both their business and processes
- Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained
- Demonstrates consistent application of internal procedures
- Plans and prioritises, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands
- Demonstrates abilities to anticipate and manage change
- Demonstrates flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organizational needs
- Communicates Effectively
- Plans and Aligns
- Customer Focus
- Instills Trust
- Collaborates
- Situational Adaptability
- Business Insight
- Collaborates
- Customer Focus
- Ensure Accountability
- Manages Complexity
- Verbal Communication
- Commercial Acumen
- Planning Organising
- Action Planning
- Policy and Procedures
- Data Collection and Analysis
- Reporting
- Matric
- Technical qualification in Engineering or IT-related studies
- Minimum of 5 years’ progressive experience within a similar role Experience in Customer Service environment essential
- Minimum 2 years of experience in an account management role or client facing role
- Own and develop relationships with the frontline account management and specialist sales, servicing and supporting organizations to provide customer technical insight
- Experience working within a technology organization and communicating with a technical contact level is strongly preferred
- Experience in the credit risk space or similar is advantageous
- Advanced knowledge of, or experience using, AI technologies a strong plus