Customer Service Specialist - Apprentice

CHAIN LOGISTICS SERVICES LTD

LONDON (NW10 7TR)

Closes in 21 days (Sunday 27 April 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 27 March 2025

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Summary

As we continue to grow, we are excited to offer an apprenticeship opportunity for a Customer Service Specialist in Park Royal, London. Typical duties could include dealing with orders and payments, offering guidance and support, meeting and greeting, fixing problems, after care or measuring customer satisfaction.

Wage

£14,722.50 to £23,809.50, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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Training course
Customer service specialist (level 3)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm (Office based)

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Duration

1 year 3 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

  • The programme builds the specialist knowledge and skills needed to influence the customer experience and their satisfaction with your organisation
  • Learners will develop important customer service skills and behaviours alongside product/service knowledge, enabling them to effectively handle a range of customer interactions, whether face-to-face, on the phone, by post, email or text, or through social media

Where you’ll work

37 UNIMIX HOUSE
ABBEY ROAD
LONDON
NW10 7TR

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

SR APPRENTICESHIPS LIMITED

Your training course

Customer service specialist (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents
  • Business focused service delivery: Demonstrate a continuous improvement and future focussed approach to customer service delivery including decision making and providing recommendations or advice
  • Business focused service delivery: Resolve complex issues by being able to choose from and successfully apply a wide range of approaches
  • Business focused service delivery: Find solutions that meet your organisations needs as well as the customer requirements
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Through advanced questioning, listening and summarising negotiate mutually beneficial outcomes
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Manage challenging and complicated situations within your level of authority and make recommendations to enable and deliver change to service or strategy
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Use clear explanations, provide options and solutions to influence and help customers make choices and agree next steps
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Explore and interpret the customer experience to inform and influence achieving a positive result for customer satisfaction
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Demonstrate a cost conscious mind-set when meeting customer and the business needs
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Identifying where highs and lows of the customer journey produce a range of emotions in the customer
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Use written and verbal communication to simplify and provide complex information in a way that supports positive customer outcome in the relevant format
  • Working with customers/customer insights: Proactively gather customer feedback, through a variety of methods. Critically analyse, and evaluate the meaning, implication and facts and act upon it
  • Working with customers/customer insights: Analyse your customer types, to identify or anticipate their potential needs and expectations when providing your service
  • Customer Service performance: Maintain a positive relationship even when you are unable to deliver the customer’s expected outcome
  • Customer Service performance: When managing referrals or escalations take into account historical interactions and challenges to determine next steps
  • Service Improvement: Analyse the end to end service experience, seeking input from others where required, supporting development of solutions
  • Service Improvement: Make recommendations based on your findings to enable improvement
  • Service Improvement: Make recommendations and implement where possible, changes in line with new and relevant legislation, regulations and industry best practice

Your training plan

  • Customer Service Specialist Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade A)
  • Maths (grade A)

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
  • Creative

About this company

Chain Logistics Services is a team of dedicated professionals having distinct experience in Maritime, supply chain and logistics industries. It has been our constant endeavour to provide first class, highly competitive services to our clients. By monitoring and responding to our client’s needs, Chain Logistics Services is constantly developing the scope of its expertise which has made us a fast growing logistics service provider. Our comprehensive range of services and solutions, cover every single need of Importers & Exporters. Chain Logistics Services develops customised logistics solutions to meet the priorities of each client, with a responsible, ethical approach. Chain Logistics Services is a stable, independent and fast growing freight forwarder. Our excellent customer service, In-House expertise and our global logistics network has placed us at forefront of our industry.

After this apprenticeship

  • Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, apprentices have the opportunity to continue their careers with our company. They can transition into permanent roles, applying the skills and knowledge gained during their training
  • As they grow within the organisation, they will have access to continuous learning, career development opportunities, and the chance to take on increasing responsibilities in their chosen field

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SR APPRENTICESHIPS LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000312240.

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Closes in 21 days (Sunday 27 April 2025 at 11:59pm)

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