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SalaryLet’s shape the future - Together
We’re building our business around people. We never start from a technological perspective and try to adapt to the human experience. Quite the opposite. We’ve set ourselves bold targets in innovating our sales and customer experience. Want to express yourself and shape the future of safe, personal, and sustainable mobility? Look no further. Join our team and work together to create the solutions of tomorrow.
Customer Care – Let’s introduce ourselves
Customer Care is an enthusiastic, dynamic organization within Volvo Cars, providing consumers world-class customer care by engaging them with our products, services and offers. Care is spearheading the company’s fast transformation, building high-quality, long-lasting relationships directly with our consumers. As we accelerate our online business, turning Volvocars.com into a fully-fledged online sales channel, Customer Care plays an essential role in supporting consumers as they learn about and shop for our cars.
To keep up with Volvo Cars’ bold ambitions to go electric and online, Customer Care is expanding all over the world, and developing our service offering. This will allow us to use new technology to meet consumers’ expectations, delivering personal, effortless and respectful experiences. To succeed, we need the right talent, and that’s where you come in! We want you to innovate, challenge and build a career at Volvo Cars. Due to growth, we are now recruiting for a number of Customer Care Specialists.
We will hold Assessment Centres and interviews for these vacancies in April 2024 at our Maidenhead HQ. We have start dates available in April and May.
What you’ll do
As a Customer Care Specialist at Volvo Cars, you are responsible for consistently delivering an outstanding, personal consumer experience addressing the needs of current and future consumers across the shopping and ownership journey. As a brand ambassador, your consumer-facing role is crucial in supporting our mission to improve the society we live in and bring our brand promise to life.
You will communicate with consumers based on their needs primarily via phone, but also via chat and email, to understand their inquiry and communicate a viable solution with a high service level. You will also manage lead generation, delegation, and follow-up of leads to ensure that they are being utilized effectively. It is important to prioritize and escalate our consumers’ feedback and feature requests to the relevant internal teams. Your role will involve continuously and actively identifying, proposing, and driving activities with stakeholders within and outside the Customer Care organisation, to further improve quality and efficiency in our processes.
To be able to provide timely support to our consumers we are open every day, all year round and work in shifts spanning between mornings, evenings, and weekends.
In this role, you will get the opportunity to gain insights and learn so much both about the consumers and the products which could be highly valuable if you like to build a future career within the company.
What you’ll bring
Do you recognise yourself as having a genuine interest in providing excellent customer service and are motivated by working in a fast-paced, dynamic team facing challenges in an optimistic way? Then this could be the right opportunity for you.
As we are in a phase of transformation, we are looking for someone with a flexible approach and a doer-attitude, who enjoys working in a high-pace, efficient manner in a constantly changing environment. Our business can sometimes be unpredictable where we quickly need to adapt to different situations. Therefore, problem-solving skills is in focus for this role as you will need to identify, understand, and analyze our consumers’ inquiries and offer guidance and sustainable solutions. Being solution-oriented will be of great help in handling various inquiries and issues, and you actively seek out opportunities for learning and growth as part of your journey with us at Volvo Cars!
As specialist, you need to have great collaboration skills. You work effectively within a team and possess the ability to cooperate with other teams, colleagues, and departments within the company to find the best solutions for our consumers – and through that contribute to an improved customer experience.
We value previous experience within customer care operations and/or customer service from sales-oriented brands. Previous experience of complaint handling is desirable. You will have excellent oral and written communication skills in English and preferably knowledge of a CRM-system.
Finally, we are looking for you who:
- Builds trust by being empathetic toward the customer’s issues and attentive to their needs.
- Have experience of dealing with customer complaints and critique in a professional manner while keeping a positive mindset.
- Have great communication skills, both orally and written.
- Are fluent in English and can communicate without hindrance, orally and in writing.
Benefits & Life at Volvo Car UK
- Circa £24,000 increasing to £26,000 per annum after successful completion of your probationary period. Volvo offers competitive salaries that are reviewed and benchmarked annually
- Discretionary, performance-related bonus scheme that rewards you whilst you help us to achieve our goals
- Hybrid working in our agile, state-of-the-art Maidenhead office, or from home for up to 3 days a week
- 28 days holiday + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy up to 5 additional days
- 15 days’ work from anywhere in the world policy
- 24 weeks enhanced and flexible parental leave for all employees regardless of gender up to a child’s 3rd birthday
- Matched pension contribution up to 5%
- Wellbeing benefits such as Health Cash Plan, Life Assurance.
- Access to our preferential employee lease car scheme for you and your family
- Subsidised onsite restaurant plus free refreshments and snacks
- Onsite electrical charging for your Plug-In Hybrid Electric or Battery Electric vehicle.
- A set salary sacrifice spend limit, refreshed every tax year for you to choose from multiple services and products to suit your lifestyle whilst saving on tax and NI within our extensive flexible benefits platform
- Discounted shopping site with 100s of brands and online retailers
Want to know more? We hope so
We welcome you to apply in English by 7th April 2024 at the latest. Please apply through the provided link. Applications submitted via email will not be retained or taken into consideration due to GDPR. Once you receive a confirmation email from the system, your application will be acknowledged.
We are committed to keeping you informed during the entire process. If you have any inquiries, please reach out to leigh.craddock@volvocars.com.
Volvo Cars - Driving change together
Volvo Cars’ continued success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with over 40,000 employees across the globe. At Volvo Cars, your career is designed around your skills and aspirations so you can reach your full potential.
For the right person, an inspiring, and creative workplace awaits. Did you know that every Volvo Cars employee worldwide has the right to our Family Bond, our new all-gender, paid parental leave policy? You’ll also enjoy a culture and benefits package that’s made us one of the world’s most awarded and progressive employers.
By 2025, we aim to sell 1.2 million cars annually, 50% of which will be electric vehicles and sold directly to customers through digital channels. Join us on the journey of a lifetime as we create the driving and electrification technologies of tomorrow.
