Customer Service Rep for Call Center

Customer Service Representative

The Customer Service Representative receives and processes calls from customers, serves as the end-to-end point of contact for customers, and resolves customer issues. Collaborates with a team of customer service representatives to meet overall call center objectives and enhance the customer service function to exceed our customers' expectations.

Essential Job Functions:

• Answers incoming calls.
• Assists existing commercial and residential customers in resolving issues.
• Provides service quotes for new customers.
• Establishes customer accounts by negotiating and documenting service type, pricing, billing, and other required information. Communicates concise and accurate information.
• Provides customer retention by providing high level customer service and offering alternatives to cancellation request.
• Averages answering approximately 100 inbound calls per day.
• Averages answering calls in fewer than 12 seconds.
• Establishes understanding of customer needs, issues, and requests.
• Identifies opportunities to cross sell additional products and services.
• Interacts with customers and Waste Pro employees to determine service, resolve complaints, and escalates the more complex issues to the appropriate level.
• Serves as the customer's advocate by solving problems on the customer's behalf and by engaging the right department and people within Waste Pro.
• Supports other service lines when required.
• Uses Tower system to gather information, provides information, and/or update customer records.
• Completes cross training with other departments to include Operations, Sales, and Billing.
• Strives to meet or exceed service and operational goals established for the call center to include productivity, quality, and timeliness.

Other Job Responsibilities:

• Employees in this job classification must attend and participate in corporation sponsored training courses as assigned.
• Employees in this job classification are responsible for keeping up to date on current technology, as job appropriate, being used by Waste Pro.
• Any additional job duties that may be assigned by the Supervisor.

Work Environment:

Normal setting for this job is: office setting.

Qualifications:

• Ability to handle a heavy volume of calls in a professional and efficient manner
• Excellent verbal, written and analytical skills
• Computer proficiency in MS Office and strong typing skills
• Ability to multi task
• Ability to react well under pressure and treat others with respect
• Ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner
• Ability to prioritize and plan work activities
• Ability to work efficiently and effectively, both independently and as a team to ensure exceeding the call center's standards.
• Ability to balance team and individual responsibilities and help build a positive team environment.
• Ability to adapt and deal with frequent changes in the work environment, manage difficult or emotional customer situations and respond promptly to service.

Special Considerations/Physical Work Requirements:

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
• Required to use motor coordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding, machine operation, driving, etc.) most of the work day.
• Required to exert physical effort in tasks that involve the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of light weight handling objects less than 25 pounds- rarely.