Customer Support Specialist - German speaking
Bp
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Finance
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Job Description:
Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably in is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.
About the role
Customer service support specialist is intended to provide end to end support to our customers from on-boarding trough the full life cycle of the customer on a given product or products delivering an effortless and best customer experience in all touch points with the customer.
In BP, we put the customer in the heart of all what we do, and we want to establish our reputation as the best in class regarding customer care for which this position will have a critical role to play to enable the company to achieve it. To be successful in this role the individual need to be excellent communicator who's able to earn our customers trust, deep knowledge of the product, systems and processes to be able not just to guide customers troughs features and functionalities but also recommending solutions.
Key Accountabilities
Complete day to day customer service-related operational tasks from end-to-end to ensure delivery meets customer expectations and is consistent with set process performance indicators, applicable service level agreements and the customer service function core values.
Leverage deep understanding of specific products, processes / systems and act as a critical issue point of contact for any verbal or written form of enquiries from external customers and consumers and internal customers from the BP Business and third parties.
Interact with customers in a professional, friendly and efficient manner and raise concerns about meeting service levels or deadlines or product defects as recommendations on how they can be more efficient.
Take ownership and proactively resolve customer issues (working with other teams as appropriate):
- Take ownership and resolve escalated telephone and written customer issues.
- Raise activities that are not actioned by assignees.
- Keep the accountability for the customer query or request resolution
Provide customer support via the internet, phone, and email to support activities including:
- Account set-up, installation and delivery issues.
- Respond to customer queries in a timely and accurate way, via phone, email or chat
- Identify customer needs and help customers use specific features
- Analyses and report product malfunctions (for example, by testing different scenarios or impersonating users)
- Update our internal databases with information about technical issues and useful discussions with customers
- Share feature requests and effective workarounds with team members
- Advise customers about new features and functionalities
- Follow up with customers to ensure their technical issues are resolved
- Gather customer feedback and share with our Product, Sales and Marketing teams
- Log, assign and track progress of queries and customer requests from receipt to completion ensuring data is accurately entered and maintained in all customer service and data collection systems.
- Exhibit solid Teammate characteristics, constructive communication and active listening skills at all times
- Support the development and help maintain sound working relationships with key partners, customers and external service providers
- Other tasks as directed by the team leader
- Run and analyze reports
- Log and follow-up incidents in the Incident report
- Ensure that all processes are aligned with current ISO 9000 accreditation
- Ensure that all activities meet with the BSC’s HSSE requirements
- Monitor Team SOX compliance
Communication with the business, participation on calls:
- Takes part in calls and communications with the business as assigned by the Team Lead
Support FBT activities through immediate triage, partner concern (high risk customer issues - financial, legal, reputation), resolution or logging and forwarding of customer inquiries / issues.
Service Management & Continuous Improvement
Manage and maintain customer expectations, referencing pre-established service level agreements where applicable.
Make recommendations on existing knowledge base documents and identify knowledge gaps.
Build and maintain strong relationships with both the customer and internal business partners through the provision of timely, accurate and high-quality service.
Perform user acceptance testing in service center technology and ERP systems to help ensure effective enhancement execution.
Attend project calls related with the products development or systems process supported
Requirements
Education
- Educated to university level or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 24 months previous experience in the field of Customer Service
Skills
- Fluent in English, C1level German language knowledge
- Demonstrate good understanding of Business needs
- Technical affinity, ability to analyses system issues.
- Depp knowledge on the product, systems and processes from end2end
- Assertive communication to ensure efficient problem resolution
- Quality assurance approach
- Strong relationship and collaborator management skills
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Multi-tasking abilities
- Strong time management and organization skills
- Good communication skills
- High Level of IT proficiency in Microsoft packages
- CI Perspective and attitude
- Solid understanding of different systems
- Experience in BP’s internal systems (salesforce, MDG, SAP)
- Good analytical skills
- Teamwork and knowledge of the business, partners
Why join our Team?
We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.
Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!
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Legal Disclaimer:
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.
If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.