Do you want to play a key role in shaping the future of travel in Greater Manchester? Are you passionate about leading and inspiring your team to deliver excellent customer service? Do you recognise the value that customer engagement can play in connecting with customers?
Your role
In your role you will manage and co-ordinate the work of the team, ensuring performance is achieved in line with our procedures and KPIs. There will be a particular focus on developing the team so that new processes and skills can be absorbed into the day-to-day operation. It will also involve being involved in new and exciting projects that will result in the service we’re providing to our customers continually improving.
You’ll need to be able to work flexibly on a rota system between 7am and 8pm Monday to Friday and 8am to 8pm at weekends and bank holidays. This role comes with 12.5% shift allowance.
For more info see Job Profile and rota below.
Who we are?
It’s a really exciting time to be joining Transport for Greater Manchester. As a Customer Support Team Leader, you will form part of the management team for the Customer Contact Centre. The contact centre deals with customer engagement via a range of communication channels and are the first point of contact for customers and stakeholders and handle all enquiries and applications. This includes the processing of all concessionary travel passes in Greater Manchester, as well as handling enquiries relating to concessionary travel, journey planning, ticketing, cycling enquiries and memberships and demand responsive transport. We’re also be at the beating heart of all enquiries relating to bus franchising.
What you’ll bring
What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.
You will live and breathe our core values of Deliver, Adapt and Care and to be successful in this role you’ll have experience of managing a high performing, engaged team in a customer service environment. With a proven track record of people development through the implementation of coaching, mentoring and quality assurance processes, you will have excellent verbal and written communication and organisational skills and demonstrate strong people management skills.
If you believe you have the skills and experience and would like to be part of a friendly and dynamic team with a varied skill set who provide friendly and efficient customer service and advice, we would really like to hear from you!
What we can offer
A fixed term role until 31st March 2025 with a salary of £39,360 - £43,817 per annum depending on experience, plus 12.5% shift allowance per annum depending on skills and experience.
At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process.
Our benefits include:
28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
Flexible and hybrid working options to promote and support a good work/life balance
Free bus, rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary
Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Scheme which includes life cover of 3x your salary and options to increase your pension contributions
Commitment to learning and personal development and upskilling with reimbursement of professional fees, where essential to the role
We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to staff via our employee assistance programme when required
What’s next?
If you see yourself as part of this team and have the skills and experience, we are seeking, we’d really like to hear from you. When completing your application, please ensure that you provide clear examples against the criteria questions, all appointments will be based on merit.
Please be aware that we may close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.
For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.
Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.
NOTE TO AGENCIES we will be accepting direct applications only for this role. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral CV.
Customer Support Team Leader Job profile
Customer Team Manager Rota