Customer Service Lead

Customer Service Lead

The Customer Service Lead is responsible for supporting the day-to-day execution of customer service operations across phone, email, chat, marketplace, social, and digital channels. This role helps ensure a consistent, high-quality customer experience while driving operational excellence, team performance, issue resolution, and continuous improvement. The Lead serves as a hands-on partner to the service team, helping identify customer trends, address escalations, improve workflows, and deliver service outcomes that strengthen customer loyalty and trust.

Responsibilities:

• Customer Experience & Service Execution Support execution of customer service standards across all customer touchpoints. Monitor customer feedback, complaints, and service trends and escalate recurring issues. Help identify opportunities to reduce customer friction and improve satisfaction and retention. Promote a customer-first mindset across daily operations.
• Operations & Performance Monitor service queues, response times, resolution times, backlog, and escalations. Support quality assurance efforts and service-level performance. Analyze service metrics and trends to identify opportunities for improved performance. Assist in resolving complex customer issues and escalations.
• Team Coaching & Development Provide day-to-day guidance, coaching, and support to customer service representatives. Assist with onboarding, training, and knowledge-sharing activities. Reinforce performance expectations, accountability, and service excellence. Foster a positive, collaborative, and customer-focused team culture.
• Process Improvement & Systems Support Identify workflow inefficiencies and recommend process improvements. Support adoption and optimization of customer service platforms, CRM tools, and knowledge management systems. Partner with leadership to improve reporting, documentation, and operational visibility. Help drive initiatives that improve productivity, consistency, and customer outcomes.
• Cross-Functional Partnership Collaborate with Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing, Sales, Product, and IT teams to resolve customer-impacting issues. Share customer insights and service trends to support business improvement efforts. Support implementation of initiatives that enhance the overall customer experience.

Qualifications:

• 4–6+ years of customer service, customer experience, ecommerce, or contact center experience.
• Previous experience serving as a team lead, senior representative, supervisor, or informal people leader preferred.
• Strong experience with CRM and customer service platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to manage escalations, prioritize competing demands, and drive issue resolution.
• Strong communication, coaching, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent work experience.

About Us The PurePlay business is a growing portfolio of purpose-driven water filtration brands and part of Culligan International, a private-equity held company based in Rosemont, Illinois. Our PurePlay brands serve a shared mission: to make clean, great-tasting, and contaminant-free water accessible in every household.