Customer Service Phone Agent

At Animal Friends Insurance, we’re passionate about providing excellent service to our customers and helping them protect the pets they love. We’re looking for a friendly, empathetic and motivated Customer Service Phone Agent to join our team.

At Animal Friends Insurance, we’re passionate about providing excellent service to our customers and helping them protect the pets they love. We’re looking for a friendly, empathetic and motivated Customer Service Phone Agent to join our team. If you enjoy talking to people, solving problems and delivering great customer experiences, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

This is a full-time position responsible for covering our customer support hours, working Monday to Friday from 9:00am to 5:00pm.

Our Customer Service Phone Agents will all start on Monday 11th January and there will then be a 4-week virtual induction/training.

Package: £25,300pa, 25 holiday days (plus your birthday off), health care cash plan, pension, wellbeing support and pet insurance discount.

As a Customer Service Phone Agent, you’ll be a key point of contact for our existing policyholders, helping them with queries and updates to their policies. You’ll put customers at the heart of every interaction, ensuring they receive friendly, professional and efficient support.

• Handling inbound customer calls and delivering excellent customer outcomes.
• Managing challenging conversations and complaints calmly and professionally.
• Meeting individual and team performance targets while maintaining high standards of quality.
• Developing your knowledge of our products, systems, procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Sharing best practice and working collaboratively with colleagues to support team success.

• Excellent communication skills, with a friendly, polite and empathetic approach.
• The ability to remain calm, professional and efficient in challenging situations.
• Resilience and confidence when managing high volumes of customer contact.
• A self-motivated attitude and a commitment to achieving personal and team goals.
• The ability to build positive relationships with customers and colleagues.
• Flexibility, adaptability and a positive approach to change in a fast-paced environment.
• Able to easily work from home with a quiet space and good internet connection

Animal Friends has been supporting UK pet owners for more than 25 years with our comprehensive and meaningful pet insurance. We are not only an award-winning business but one of the largest pet insurance providers in the UK. But we’re not like other leading UK pet insurers, we were built to be unmistakably different – giving back to incredible animal welfare and conservation charities, at home and around the world, as they fight to support and care for vulnerable pets, wildlife, and habitats.

So far, we’ve helped support over 800 charities and conservancies across the UK and worldwide and donated over £8.5 million and continue to use our voice and platform to fight for positive change. We believe that even the smallest act can make a big difference.

We understand that our success is only possible because of how we work together, which is why our company values of being courageous, kind-hearted and passionate are the heart of what we do – and we simply wouldn’t be who we are today without our colleagues, who embody these values every day.

We are part of Doubtless Pet Care, one of the largest pet insurance and services organisations globally, with over 4,500 colleagues supporting over 6 million pets across the globe. Our passion for pets powers our purpose to help pet parents get better access to better care, so…