Superbalist Customer Service 2IC

Customer Service 2IC - Superbalist

a leading South African online retailer is looking for a highly talented Customer Service 2IC to join our team in Cape Town.

We are a young dynamic hyper growth company looking for smart creative hard- working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related Total Remuneration Package a great work environment and a promise that you wont be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great

The position reports to theSuperbalist Customer Services Team Leader

Your responsibilities will include:

• Day to day operations which include but are not limited to allocating workload to Online Fashion Assistants such as: response times to customers telephony call flow distribution and escalating systemic issues
• Supplying of operational reports on a daily basis
• Assisting Team Leader with adhoc project related tasks
• Escalating IR Related Concerns to Team Leaders.
• Assisting the Team Leaders in terms of coaching and skills development
• Assisting staff members with complex queries
• Proactively identify address and resolve customer issues
• Identify review and propose solutions to issues identified or picked up during the course of performing day to day duties
• Oversee a team of individuals when Team Leaders are not available as well as managing a team during festive season
• Flexibility to work shifts - able to work rotating shifts Public Holidays weekends and flexible hours as required by the business operation

Attributes required:

• Deliver and set an example of high level of customer service
• Responsible and Accountable
• Solutions orientated - able to analyse a situation and find solutions
• Passionate about team-work
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Leadership skills display the qualities of a leader and set a good example
• Committed to continuous learning
• Receptive to a collaborative management approach
• Empowering within team and structure
• Customer centric
• Proactive

Qualifications and experience:

• Senior Certificate or Higher
• Minimum of 12 - 18 months customer service experience in related positions.
• MS Office suite - Word basic; Excel intermediate; and PowerPoint basic would be advantageous

The Environment:

• employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic smart customer-centric fun and have the shared ambition of being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun work hard take ownership work in teams to create solutions and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers its all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to Employ an Extraordinary Mind who

• is forthright but respectful
• is an expert at doing who can not only design but also execute
• is analytical able to use data to make decisions
• is competitive self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
• is entrepreneurial thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
• is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
• is curious and challenge the status quo
• is innovative and enjoys iteration
• is collaborative
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for .
• thinks like an owner of the business.
• is SMART has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.