Customer Service Advisor | S1 | Banking | Glasgow

Position: Customer Service Advisor | S1 | Everyday Banking | Glasgow
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Customer Service Advisor | S1 | Everyday Banking | Glasgow

Country:
United Kingdom

Join our community.
For our customers, you'll be more than just the friendly face and voice of Santander. You'll be a listener and problem solver. Whether you're helping someone with a simple cash transaction, aiding them with technology, transacting with them over the phone or protecting your customers against fraud and scams, you'll never know what the next challenge will be.
We'll help you to develop the skills needed to build strong customer relationships, take ownership, and deliver a great customer experience.
You'll be flexible in your approach and comfortable in undertaking a broad range of activities. This means not limiting your time and focus on one element of your role. You'll thrive on the variety this gives you and take satisfaction for operating in a multi-skilled environment. And you'll be encouraged 'Think Customer' and share ideas on improving processes and customer experience.

You're the eyes and ears of our business after all.
The difference you'll make:
Acting as the first point of contact for customers over the phone

Assisting with day-to-day transactions, queries, and servicing

Updating customer records

Helping to keep our customers and the bank safe

Building relationships and finding solutions

Developing your knowledge of services and products to help our customers

Identifying new ways to improve the customer experience

What you'll bring:
Passionate about delivering outstanding customer service either from a face to face or a telephony background, previous financial services background isn't essential as we'll provide you training

The ability to listen and communicate effectively with customers to truly understand their needs

It would also be nice for you to have:
A real desire to go above-and-beyond for customers

Effective team working skills with a flexible, can-do approach to work

Ability to follow process but also think on your feet

Openness to a broad range of activities even if outside of standard expectations

You will require the right to work in the UK (please see details below)

What else you need to know:
This role is based in Glasgow.
We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).
If you apply for this role in any of these locations, it's important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location(s).
We're happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.

If you're interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.
This role is 35 hours per week.
Recruiting multiple roles with shifts split between:
Week 1 -  Monday to Saturday 08:00 - 16:00 (1 in 2 Saturday's, flexible lieu day)
Week 2 - Monday to Saturday 10:00 - 18:00 (1 in 2 Saturday's, flexible lieu day)
Inclusion.
At Santander we're creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed.  We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains, and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we'll reward you.
As well as a salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.  For part-time / contract roles, your salary, bonus (where eligible) and certain benefits will be prorated to reflect your working hours / contract duration.
Starting salary of £24,000 plus a £500 annual cash allowance to spend on our great range of benefits

25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 26 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase…