Main Purpose

• The Call Centre Agent will play a vital role in receiving inbound calls and respond to customer complaints. To contact current and potential customers from the formal or informal trade by telephone to solicit sales orders. Attend to customer queries and complaints. To perform the Wage Clerk duties.

Key Responsibilities

• Excellent customer: Always maintain relations and have a professional attitude. Ensure excellent and professional customer service – first call resolution including effective soft skills, telephone and e-mail etiquette but not limited to business writing and bulk buying sale.
• Communication & stakeholders Engagement: Assist other departments as needed on order specifications, additional needs, or special requirements.
• Capturing of information: Ensure accurate capturing of information received from various sources on the relevant systems daily.
• Operating guidelines: Obtain 100% on all call by adhering to operating guidelines and standard procedure (quality, accuracy & behavior)
• Maintenance functions: Perform regular daily order schedule maintenance functions such as customer sales order hold removal and obtaining official authorization numbers from various buying groups.
• Verification Process: Responsible for order entry and verification against customer order.
• Call Allocation: Ensure that all incoming calls are answered within the allocated timeframe as per standard processes
• Wages: Recorded site working hours/overtime, paid wages, payslips, terminations and engagements, leave, reports, maintaining employee files and dealing with HR related queries.

Qualification Requirements

• Education: Matric Certificate. Relevant sales qualification will be advantageous & knowledge of Payspace would be an added advantage
• Knowledge: Basic call centre SOP’s knowledge Desirable, understanding of FMCG Manufacturing basic GP 2010-Desirable.

Experience Requirements

• 1-2 years of previous working experience dealing with customers. (Essential)
• 1-2 years years of work experience in an FMCG environment (Desirable)
• 1-2 years exposure to the Call Centre/Telesales. (Desirable)
• 1-2 years of previous experience working on excel. (Desirable)

Skills and Competencies

• Assertiveness
• Communication skills (written and verbal)
• Numerical ability
• Problem solving
• Legislation-PAYE/UIF, Labour Relations Act
• Teamwork
• Accountability
• Sense of urgency/results orientated
• Respect
• Computer literacy – Strong Computer skills – fast processing