Job Description
Job Title:
Contact Center Leader
Posting Start Date:
7/27/26
Job Description:
Purpose of the Job
To manage the daily operations of the contact center through training and monitoring the team to achieve the highest level of quality and productivity.
Job Description
- Has intimate knowledge of customer needs and ability to provide solutions
- Work with CSD manager to develop and implement service initiatives to improve the customer experience
- Adhere to customer service policies and procedures to maximize the customer satisfaction in every customer transaction
- Analyze sources of service failures, identify probable route causes and recommend solutions
- Continuously encourage the team to solve customer enquiries and complaints
- Manage daily customer complaints and ensure timely resolution
- Develop and coach the team on dealing with customer requests, enquiries, and complaints
- Handle all escalated queries
- Monitor daily call stats of the team
- Training and coaching of standard operation procedures of the department
- Handle all overflow of calls and incoming calls
- Planning team shifts and leave days
- Resource management, people and equipment
- Updating of performance management sessions of agents
- Complete missing parcel procedure
- Ensure all late freight \ line hauls and deliveries are actioned timeously, allocate queries to agents via email
- Resolve standard customers’ requests and route issues that require follow-up to customer service, commercial and operational teams
- Communicates customer inquiries/messages/feedback to relevant team members
- Provide satisfactory service to customers
- Handle escalated queries from branches, agents and clients
- Full resolution of escalated queries in the most efficient time
Job Requirements - Experience and Education
- Minimum requirement is a Matric (Grade 12)
- Three years of call center experience
- Proven track record with managing a team
- Strong communication skills – Excellent command of the English language
- Customer Centric Personality
- Computer Proficiency
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience within related field
- Exceptional people skills
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
Leadership Behaviors
Building Outstanding Teams
Collaborate & break silos
Execution & Accountability
External focus
Growth mindset
Inclusion
Innovation
Setting a clear direction
Simplification
Skills
Analytical Thinking
Communication Skills
Conflict Resolution
Crisis Management
Cross Functional Relationship Management
Interpersonal And Relationship-Building Skills
Interpersonal Skills
Negotiation Skills
Problem Solving
Team Collaboration
Team Leadership