Acquiring Customer Service Team Manager

Join us at Barclays as an Acquiring Customer Service Team Manager, where you will provide hands-on leadership for the expanded UK frontline, ensuring day-to-day performance against SLAs and quality metrics, coaching and developing colleagues, managing schedules and workflow, embedding process changes, and mitigating operational and regulatory risk at the point of delivery.

To be successful as an Acquiring Customer Service Team Manager, you should have:

• Leadership experience (minimum Team Leader level) is a must.
• Experience managing SLA’s and KPI’s.
• Proven Customer Service experience, in a leadership position, with the ability to guide and motivate a team effectively.
• Problem solving skills.
• Able to be Flexible and Adaptable.
• Be Efficient and Organisable.

Other highly valued skills include:

• Previous knowledge/experience within Call Center environment.
• Financial Service background.
• Being able to build on a strong team culture, fostering high performance and morale.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in Northampton.

Purpose of the role

To address customer questions, concerns or requests while maintaining customer service expectations. 

Accountabilities

• Provision of customer service to customer questions, concerns and requests regarding accounts, products, and services in a timely and professional manner.
• Collaboration with teams across the bank to align, promote, and integrate customer care initiatives.
• Management and maintenance of customer records and documentation to ensure accuracy.
• Participation in training and development initiatives to improve customer skills, knowledge, and services.
• Identification of industry trends and developments related to customer service to implement best practice in customer care.
• Execution of escalation requests to the relevant team or senior management as required in a timely manner.
• Execution of customer service activities through various communication channels including chat, email, and phone.

Analyst Expectations

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.