Apprentice Customer Service Representative

Xpress Fuels

Ipswitch, IP1 1UR

Closes in 6 days (Friday 20 September)

Posted on 20 August 2024


Summary

The Apprentice Customer Service Representative will support and offer the highest level of service to our stakeholders. You will undertake and complete a Customer Service Level 2 apprenticeship with Woodspeen Training, whilst receiving mentoring and support from your line manager and wider team.

Annual wage
£11,648 a year

Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

Training course
Customer service practitioner (level 2)
Hours
The hours for the position are 35 hours Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

35 hours a week

Possible start date

Saturday 21 September

Duration

1 Year

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

  • Customer service admin; processing new sales orders, collections
  • Assist the invoice team
  • Receive inbound sales leads and convert into sales
  • Make outbound calls to produce new business sales leads
  • Upsell additional products and services to existing customers
  • Assist with office housekeeping and admin projects
  • Offer excellent customer service to our retailers via email and telephone
  • Engage with consumers who are looking for product information

Where you’ll work

Franciscan house

51 Princes Street

Ipswitch

IP1 1UR

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

WOODSPEEN TRAINING LIMITED

Your training course

Customer service practitioner (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents
  • Use a range of questioning skills, including listening and responding in a way that builds rapport, determines customer needs and expectations and achieves positive engagement and delivery.
  • Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication skills, along with summarising language during face-to-face communications; and/or
  • Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate communication skills, along with reinforcement techniques (to confirm understanding) during non-facing customer interactions.
  • Depending on your job role and work environment: Use an appropriate ‘tone of voice’ in all communications, including written and digital, that reflect the organisation’s brand.
  • Provide clear explanations and offer options in order to help customers make choices that are mutually beneficial to both the customer and your organisation.
  • Be able to organise yourself, prioritise your own workload/activity and work to meet deadlines.
  • Demonstrate patience and calmness.
  • Show you understand the customer’s point of view.
  • Use appropriate sign-posting or resolution to meet your customers needs and manage expectations.
  • Maintain informative communication during service recovery.
  • Your training plan

    This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

    More training information

    • Understand the underpinning business processes that support you in providing excellent service to our customers
    • How to navigate the businesses internal systems and external portals to process customer requests
    • Know your internal and external customers and how their behaviour may require different approaches from you
    • Understand how to analyse, use and present a range of information to provide customer insight
    • Find solutions that meet your organisations needs as well as the customer requirements
    • Through advanced questioning, listening and summarising negotiate mutually beneficial outcomes
    • Manage challenging and complicated situations within your level of authority and make recommendations to enable and deliver change to service or strategy
    • Demonstrate brand advocacy, values and belief when dealing with customer requests to build trust, credibility and satisfaction

    Requirements

    Essential qualifications

    GCSE in:

    • English and Maths (grade C/4)

    Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

    Skills

    • Communication skills
    • IT skills
    • Attention to detail
    • Organisation skills
    • Customer care skills
    • Problem solving skills
    • Administrative skills
    • Number skills
    • Analytical skills
    • Logical
    • Team working
    • Initiative
    • Non judgemental
    • Patience

    Other requirements

    Please check travel times before applying

    About this company

    Our mission is centered around simplicity. Providing products and services your business needs, no matter where you are, no matter the size, age or industry. ​​ 'Anytime, Anywhere'​​ Providing UK nationwide coverage on all the fuel card networks and a next day delivery service for bulk fuel, we offer a truly reliable service for all your fuel requirements.​

    https://www.xpressfuel.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

    After this apprenticeship

    Upon the successful completion of this apprenticeship, why not continue to study on one of these courses:

    Customer Service Specialist (level 3)

    Ask a question

    The contact for this apprenticeship is:

    WOODSPEEN TRAINING LIMITED

    April Morten

    April.morten@woodspeentraining.co.uk

    07483178087

    The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000272311.

    Apply now

    Closes in 6 days (Friday 20 September)

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