Customer Service Specialist

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- About the roleThis role is a vital part of the management team for BT’s broader Global organisation.

This role leads BT Global Service Relationship activities end-to-end with a customer, or portfolio of customers, and is focused on ensuring best in class operational excellence and leading stakeholder engagement to drive an improved customer experience.

Working closely with your customer to understand their business objectives, act as their trusted advisor and managing the relationship between Operations, front office and the customer. Seeking to maximise the value that customers derive from their service.
- Regular proactive engagement with your customer, understanding their industry and goals. Additionally, you’ll work effectively and collaboratively with other managers and leaders across the broader BT organisation to drive success for both customers and BT- Accountabilities- To manage and develop the overall end-to-end operational relationship on behalf of BT, forging strong working relationships with Customer(s) at mid to senior levels
- Advocate - acts as the trusted advisor and manages expectations bidirectionally and can negotiate mutually beneficial outcomes and resolve conflict.
- Operational assurance of in life new business opportunities, ensuring alignment with Operations priorities
- Proactively identifies opportunities for improvement and transformation across the account(s) ensuring the appropriate actions are successfully delivered by the responsible teams across BT or where a systemic issue is identified, escalated to the Operations Business Partner.
- Owns and resolves customer issues and escalations
- Providing in-life feedback, guidance and direction across BT to ensure customer intimacy and alignment to business objectives
- Accountability for the end-end operational performance and KPIs including management of the customer Service Levels maximising opportunities to reduce penalties and service credits, through operational excellence
- Provides customer specific insight, through a deep understanding of the customer(s)
- Broader understanding of the customer(s) market, identifying emerging trends and priorities
- Ensure ITIL governance best practises
- Facilitates collaboration across the community to resolve customer queries, complaints and requests and support the resolution of a wide variety of often complex issues.
- Defines and executes the Service Strategy for their customer(s)
- Monitor the collection of customer insight and the analysis of customer needs to provide sound customer service improvements and efficient management of accounts.
- Ability to provide cross functional collaboration across BT
- Skills required- Onboarding - Establishing relationships with customer, educating them on BT services and processes, and set expectations.
- Deployment - Work closely with Senior Leadership in understanding the growth strategy to help foster a collaborative and solutions-oriented team culture.
- A strong blend of analytical decision-making and creative problem-solving skills
- Drive - Has strong situational leadership skills and can work autonomously but should be an integral part of any team
- Ability to easily transition from technical details to strategic planning
- Knowledge on continuous and service improvement technics such as Lean, Six Sigma Green Belt, Etc
- Agile framework familiarity
- Personal - Accept feedback and develop self-awareness. Navigate relationships openly and honestly, sharing knowledge and information to directly benefit or support others. Deliver simple communications and inspiring messages, always considering different perspectives.
- Self-driven, self-motivated, enthusiastic and with a “can do” attitude finding creative solutions.
- Emotional intelligence and conflict management skills
- Strategic and Critical Thinking, and Negotiation skills
- Team Player - strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
- Possesses the ability to work under pressure and rally teams around time sensitive objectives
- Experience required- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
- 5+ years of relevant experience working with customer facing role
- Ability to meet the customers’ needs in line with the busi