Customer Success Manager

Customer Success Manager

Location: Evesham

Full Time Permanent

Salary up to 45000 per annum plus 4500 car allowance

42.5 hours per week (8-5 Monday -Friday)

Mears Group is mobilising a new long-term social housing repairs and maintenance partnership across the wider Midlands region. Delivering housing repairs and maintenance services across a geographically diverse social housing portfolio covering market towns rural communities and urban locations the contract will include responsive repairs planned maintenance and property services with a strong focus on customer service quality and community investment. We are now recruiting experienced Customer Success Managers across South Worcestershire North Gloucestershire and surrounding areas to support the mobilisation and ongoing delivery of the contract.

About the role

The Customer Success Manager is a key role to manage customer and colleague engagement within our contract.

Youll already be customer focused passionate about service a confident communicator active in your local community and have attention to detail. Youll be used to positively influencing others delivering training working to regulatory requirements (in our case with the Housing Regulator and Housing Ombudsman) and working to meet key performance indicators to provide a high-quality service providing residents with a positive customer experience whilst giving something back to our communities through social value activities.

As a minimum youll have a recognised customer or business qualification be educated to A level standard or above and have current experience working in a customer led role.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Lead and oversee complaint management ensuring issues are resolved effectively fairly and within agreed timescales.
• Manage and drive Community Investment and Social Value activity in line with contract and client expectations.
• Work closely with the Contract Lead to embed the Mears approach to customer experience engagement and social impact taking account of specific client and contract requirements.
• Conduct monthly customer and contract performance reviews ensuring KPIs are met compliance with agreed policies and procedures is maintained and opportunities for continuous improvement are identified.
• Ensure all customerrelated policies processes and procedures are clearly defined embedded and consistently adhered to across the contract.
• Accurately use business systems to log update track and manage customer interactions in a timely and professional manner.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with clients partners local communities governing bodies associations and thirdparty stakeholders.
• Manage effective customer and client communications including the promotion of positive stories and outcomes.
• Deliver bespoke customer training and induction programmes for all contract colleagues to ensure a consistent customerfocused approach.
• Embed learning from feedback complaints and performance reviews through action plans to drive continuous improvement across the contract.

Role Criteria:

• Experience in the above duties
• Previous customer service experience
• IT literate
• Experience in compliant handling
• Experience in overseeing customer engagement events
• Line Management experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong presentation skills attendance at internal and external meetings
• Customer focused
• Full Driving licence
• Ability to build relationships
• Ability to manage complex situations
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills
• Ideally have experience of working in social housing with a good understanding of repairs and maintenance

Benefits we can offer you.

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Annual Mears Fun Day - Our annual Fun Day is organised as a massive thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work!
• Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake paid volunteering in the community in support of our social value commitment.
• Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% weekly groceries holidays eye test vouchers Share save scheme plus much more
• Family friendly policies
• 4500 car allowance

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

To drive a Mears vehicle you must be aged over 21 have held your licence over 3 months and have less than 9 points.

Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment.

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