Bilingual French​/English Associate Client Escalation Specialist

Bilingual French/English Associate Client Escalation Specialist

CoStar delivers real-time, verified commercial real estate data that helps clients confidently spot great opportunities and make smart choices ahead of competitors. By combining the power of CoStar’s independent research organization – the industry’s largest – with global data delivery, software, and application solutions, clients can act on opportunities with confidence.

As a CoStar Associate Client Service Escalation Specialist, you will be responsible for supporting and managing escalations while maintaining the relationships between departments and servicing client needs by providing professional, efficient, helpful and courteous support via CoStar’s Call Centers so that our customers have a productive and enjoyable experience and in turn will renew their subscriptions on the CoStar suite of products and services.

In this role, you will be the escalated representative for all customer issues answering calls/emails from CoStar’s customers and internal employees on a wide variety of issues.

• Be the customer’s and/or internal employees’ point of contact for any escalated questions related to our products, research, billing, etc.
• Answer incoming calls & emails; diagnose technical and application calls from customers and internal employees to ensure that the customer’s need have fully been satisfied.
• Second tier of support for internal employees. Take escalated calls and provide consultation on policies and procedures as well as technical support for CoStar products and applications. Provide internal employees direct feedback after case resolution.
• Own the question or issue until it is resolved to make sure the customer’s experience is a good one.
• Use negotiation and excellent customer service to handle escalated calls from internal employees and clients.
• Provide product knowledge and skills training on a one-to-one basis with internal employees and/or clients.
• Support sales colleagues to ensure the highest standard of customer service is maintained.
• Assist clients with usage of application including problem-solving application and network-related issues and running complimentary standard reports when customers need them and are unable to access our program(s) for technical reasons.
• Track and coordinate escalated customer issues which require management response. Ensure follow-up and all concerns for possible trending analysis. Proactively recognize and alert others to trends impacting customer service.
• Enter actions for all client contact in Enterprise including notes detailed enough that subsequent users can track your actions.
• Diagnose and resolve software program problems with malfunctioning electro/mechanical equipment or software applications and recommend corrective action.
• Responsible for researching, replicating, performing root cause analysis and providing feedback for product issues reported by customers. Research and communicate new solutions based on client needs / requests.
• Responsible for providing exhaustive and complete troubleshooting.
• Promote teamwork and cooperative effort.

• Minimum of 3 years of customer service experience, with volume phone-based interactions.
• Bilingual French/English advance proficiency in oral and written communication.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not‑for‑profit university or college.
• Demonstrated ability to establish strong connections with clients over the phone, effectively address and resolve objections, and efficiently handle multiple tasks.
• 11-8pm shift, may require some Saturdays along with CoStar Holidays.

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage:
  Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug.
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance.
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family.
• Commuter and parking benefits.
• 401(k) retirement plan with matching contributions.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Paid time off.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Peloton, personal training, group exercise classes.
• Access to CoStar Group’s Employee Resource Groups.
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks.

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug‑free workplace and perform pre‑employment substance abuse testing.