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Senior Customer Service Manager

SENIOR CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGER
CASUAL SOCIETY & FUSILIER LONDON (BRANDS)

About our Brands
Casual Society and Fusilier London are high-end menswear clothing brands offering lines that range from luxury casualwear to Sport-lux streetwear aesthetics. Both brands are stylish and possess strong but subtle aesthetics’ designed to attract the younger luxury conscious Gen Z, Millennials and the stylish Gen X who have large disposable incomes and want to stand out from the crowd.

Our Design & Production team specialises in the use of laminated materials, velvets, micro-leather, specialist inks, rubberised plastics and couture threads that provide the high-end graphic finishes and logo designs that embellish our garments. Our collections feature very expensive and bespoke accessories like zippers, press studs and buttons that provide the authentic Sport Lux finishes expected from our target audience.

Creative Development Hub – Work Space Philosophy
The warehouse/office environment will reflect the brand’s ambitions for success and the personality of the people who operate within the space.

The Directors of the business see the creative team as “stakeholders” and have therefore decided that the core of the creative sales team will be responsible not only for the acquisition of the warehouse space but will also be responsible for the studio fit-out. The studio/hub will become a fast-paced business arena imbuing a sense of ownership and pride of place for the team.

The studio space will host the Digital Marketing Sales Suite, Ecommerce and Fashion Photography Studio, and High-spec Fashion Showroom. The Showroom, Bar and Working Canteen area will be used for hosting B2B & B2C coffee meetings and events that will give exposure to the creative team and designers who will flow around the fast-paced creative hub interfacing with visiting clients.

The Role - Customer Service

Our Customer Services function sits within our Digital Sales & Marketing team and will be responsible for the processes and communications which support the customer experience.

Our customers should always experience the very best service whether it’s at the point of placing an online order, receiving a delivery, or returning an item. We will know that we have achieved this if our customers choose to shop with us again, your role will be integral to making this happen.

You will have experience of working collaboratively with our internal sales team, servicing customer enquiries, website technical queries and transactional technicalities, inventory management, stock control, fulfilment management, deliveries, collections, logistics B2C & B2B shopping, business, and relationship experiences.

You will be required to ensure that all parts of the business are working together to seamlessly ensure that our clients and customers receive only the very best pre-care and aftercare service only.

We are looking for a senior customer service manager who will hit the ground running. You must be a natural leader with experience of building and leading customer service teams and preferably already have been part of a team where customer service management and best practice processes have been part of what you have done, as part of your business-as-usual role.

If you are looking to flourish in a fast-paced customer service leadership role with ambitions to establish a dynamic team and rapidly grow our online high-end fashion business, this could be a fabulous opportunity for you to take ownership of the B2B & B2C relationships.

You will have experience developing, drafting and delivering best practice customer service manuals for operative use online and for offline bricks & mortar businesses.

You will be responsible for employing your own customer service operatives who will work alongside of you as their customer line manager and supervisor running the day-to-day operation and overseeing the timely management of all customer enquiries with a polite and positive tone of voice.

You will have experience closing out omnichannel and multi-channel queries, you will be required to set up and manage customer service touch points on all social media and social sales channels and advising the business on operational issues and investments in software.

You will be experienced in developing and managing out-of-stock and restocking inventory queries, whilst ensuring customers are kept up to speed with tracking data, goods sent or received, as lines are replenished, or where current stock needs to be re-processed back into live inventories, including reimbursements of funds to customer bank accounts.

You will report weekly to the e-commerce marketing and sales director and the directors of the business, working through operational queries, strategies, and planning, identifying and resolving systemic issues and upgrading systemic processes. You will be responsible for keeping the transactional side of the business ticking over efficiently, whilst meeting KPI’s and benchmarking objectives.

You will have excellent written and communication skills and be totally computer literate with exemplary knowledge of all primary social media channels. Additional languages will also be considered a positive but is not a pre-requisite.

You should be compassionate to your team and customers alike, be empathetic to the needs of your customers and the business. You will understand that all expenditures by customers are personal investments, where quality and the seamlessness of a transaction are the keys to engagement, retention, customer loyalty, trust and repeat business and attractive ROI’s.

You will demonstrate how you have championed honesty in your career and your day-to-day role, presenting how honesty transpires and contributes to the wellbeing of your customers, team, and the wider business.
You will be required to provide and prove real-life experiences of how your approach to customer services and aftercare will benefit our business and how honesty plays a key role as a vehicle for trust, allowing customers to share openly their dissatisfaction in services previously offered. And how a certain issue was resolved leading to a streamline and change in the way a certain function was rolled-out, resulting in a change to best practice procedures.

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, honest and takes pride in ensuring that whilst the business needs to make a profit, that profits are only endured whilst customer satisfaction is guaranteed.
This role will evolve as the business grows and as such the successful candidate will need to prove why and how you will be a key contributor and how your contribution can shape and grow our customer service business profile.

It is therefore critical that you are a seasoned customer service professional, who can bring your vast experience to our business. We are depending on you to provide a strategy for presentation during your interview, depicting your winning strategy for building a winning consumer services team.

If you are a polite, calm and customer-focused person, who enjoys problem-solving, with an innate skill of offering practical solutions to our B2B & B2C clients, whilst possessing a cool head during heated negotiations in difficult situations, be sure to know, we would like to interview you as soon as possible.

Responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
  1. Managing the customer experience from the point the order is placed, this will include communications both verbal and automation.
  2. By being the ‘voice of the customer’, you will provide real-life insights to key stakeholders within the company aimed at driving continuous improvements which benefit our customer and their experience.
  3. Take ownership of all online orders and customer queries.
  4. Manage and develop the system and processes for managing and tracking customer enquiries, complaints, and faults through each level of escalation.
  5. Create and develop programmes to implement, manage, and assure customer-centric metrics and SLAs.
  6. Develop high-quality customer-facing communications such as standard scripts for the use of customer services operatives and 1st-line technical support, email templates, FAQS and answers.
  7. Be curious with a focus on continuous improvement
  8. Explore industry best practices and develop digital solutions to respond to customer service challenges
Experience and Skills
  1. Demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of contact centre operations
  2. Explain your e-commerce post purchase customer aftercare experience
  3. Prove your translating analytics into actional insights
  4. Demonstrate how you search for and drive improvements on a day-to-day basis
  5. Provide proof of experience working collaboratively with the business and external providers
  6. Demonstrate your experience working in a start-up, small organisation, or department within an organisation with ambitious growth plans
  7. Demonstrate your strong organisational skills and a keen eye for detail
  8. Demonstrate your quality management processes skills and experience of best practice policy and or contribution/revision of operational streamlining
  9. You must have the ability to remain level-headed during periods of high stress and possess the skill of keeping your team relaxed, calm and responsive in difficult situations with customers.
  10. You must be a positive, outgoing and confident person. You must possess the ability to nurture relationships with B2B clients and external parties, with great networking skills and a strong and personable work ethic.
  11. What are your professional aspirations?
  12. How would you define and characterise your career achievements thus far?
  13. What are the most profound life skills have you developed throughout your career and how have those life skills improved your life, outside the work environment.
About You

You will be an energetic, can-do person who has gained experience in small or large customer service environments. You will have seen the good, bad and ugly of customer service and will be itching to use this knowledge to create something of your own. You will be willing to roll your sleeves up and get stuck into whatever challenge is ahead and imbue a sense of teamwork be it within customer service or cross-functionally with other teams. We expect that the role will quickly develop and grow and you should have the experience to facilitate this growth which will also include identifying and implementing digital solutions to enable data analytics and drive positive customer experience.

NB: We endeavour to respond to all candidates, however, due to the number of applications we receive, this is not always possible. I’m afraid if you haven’t heard from us within 21 days of applying for the position, you have not been successful at this time.

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