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Customer Support Representative

Job ID: 009443

Location: Bradford, UK, BD5 8LJ

Job type: Permanent - Full Time

Salary: £23,000 Per Annum + Bonus & Benefits

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A career in Customer Services with us can take you anywhere, and we’re committed to helping your career happen. So, with all this, and some great benefits to boot, why not read on?

Working in our Customer Services team, you’ll find a welcoming and inclusive environment where you can be proud of the contributions you make. You will be at the forefront of delivering “Real Help with Real Lives” and creating joyful experiences for each of our members.

Alongside this, we want you to feel challenged. Whatever your ambitions, we’re committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey.

About the role.

As a Customer Services Representative your role is to deliver a personalised customer service journey for our new and existing savings and mortgage customers across multiple channels.

You will-

  • Manage customer needs through telephony, admin and our online channels such as web chat, secure messaging and social media. You’ll explore opportunities to promote our digital channels with our members.
  • Handle calls within service levels, taking ownership of delivering an efficient and compliant service in line with policy and regulation.
  • Use your initiative to provide good customer outcomes on each interaction and resolve issues at first point of contact where possible.

About You.

To succeed in this role, you will need to demonstrate strong communication skills, resilience, and the ability to adapt in a fast-paced environment.

Alongside this you will have

  • Excellent listening and interpersonal skills.
  • A passion for wanting to engage with customers, seeking solutions by exploring and questioning to achieve the right outcome for the customer.
  • Great attention to detail and be adaptable to change.
  • The ability to use a range of digital and IT tools, including Microsoft, to efficiently manage tasks and enhance productivity.
  • The capability to show strong empathy to understand the different needs of our customers.

To give you the best possible start you’ll have a tailor-made onboarding journey from the day you start with us, with colleagues on hand to support with your training and development in the role.

So what does all this mean for you:

Flexibility We offer a range of flexible working options where possible, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime to discuss this during the recruitment process
Inclusivity We’re passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you’ll go the extra mile to help our members, you’ll fit right in and feel you belong here.
Giving Back You’ll have 31 hours of paid leave each year to get involved with purposeful and skills-

About Our Benefits

Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…

  • Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)

  • On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)

  • Access to brilliant health benefits

  • Life assurance at 6 times your salary

  • 25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)

  • Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket

  • Wellbeing resources and tools

  • Retail and Leisure discounts

Find out more about what we offer

Learning & Development

Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.

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These include...

  • Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
  • Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
  • Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
  • Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
  • REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
Learn about developing your career here

Ways of working and flexibility

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We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. We help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.

We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime during the recruitment process to discuss this.

Find out more about our Ways of Working

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

You’ll find people from all walks of life here, with different cultures, beliefs, ages, outlooks and more. And we’re proud of our differences. So we’re dedicated to creating a workplace where everyone feels welcome, supported, and empowered to be their whole self at work.

Our five Colleague Networks play an important role in helping that happen – and have a real impact on our everyday working life here. Each is closely linked to our Inclusion and Diversity committee, and sponsored by a member of our Senior Leadership Team.

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And we also have other colleague groups, such as ManKind and Family Foundations, where colleagues can connect, and start conversations that can be taken into the Networks.

Meet some of the team

It's not just an apprenticeship, you also have a job at the end of it because you are employed from day 1.

Nick and Connor

Customer Apprenticeship, Bradford

Meet the Recruiter(s)

Rachel Ellis

Rachel Ellis

Resourcing & Inclusion Specialist

Connect with Rachel Ellis

I recruit for the following business areas: Customer Service and Branch

I joined YBS in 2015 starting my journey in the Branch Network.

During my time in the branch I was able to grow and develop my customer service skills while gaining a whole range of knowledge across the different areas of the Retail Network. In 2023 I joined the Resourcing and Inclusion team recruiting for the Customer Service Divisions. I have a real passion for helping people and really enjoy the journey of finding a candidate their ideal role.

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