Customer Experience Leader Vacancy

Seeds for Africa,  the leading South African online gardening retailer, is looking for a highly talented Customer Experience Leader to join our team in Cape Town. We are a dynamic, high growth company looking for smart, creative, hard- working people with integrity to join us.

We offer a market related, remuneration package and a great work environment.

The position reports to the Managing Director

- Customer Service Management: to ensure that customers who experience any service failure are handled in an appropriately urgent and sensitive manner and to take ownership of customer retention initiatives in cases of service failure.

Call Centre Leadership & Performance Management: to ensure that the CS environment is lead from the front and that customer service staff feel supported, motivated and that a high performance culture is developed by ensuring both that positive performance is appropriately recognised and that under-performance is not tolerated and managed.

 - Communication: to ensure that customer service staff are aligned with business goals and that the team is fully aware of their performance and updated on all relevant changes and initiatives.

- Analysis & Reporting: to make best used of available data and reporting to manage the team based on facts and evidence and to interpret reports to make sound decisions.

- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work as an effective team member and leader.

 - Able to communicate clearly and voice an opinion • Self-directed • Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy • Process orientated • Comfortable and able to function in a fast paced, high pressure environment, while maintaining high quality outputs • Excellent analytical and reporting skills

Qualifications and Experience: • Matric or equivalent • Tertiary qualification in Horticulture / Agriculture is an advantage • Minimum 2 years’ experience in a supervisory capacity in a customer service environment • Experience in working in an e-commerce or technology company is a plus

If you meet the above requirements and are looking for an exciting career please send an email with a detailed CV and contactable references to humanresources@seedsforafrica.co.za

PLEASE NOTE THAT ONLY CANDIDATES WHO ARE SHORT LISTED FOR INTERVIEW WILL BE CONTACTED. WE DO NOT ACCEPT ANY TELEPHONIC APPLICATIONS OR APPLICATIONS MADE TO ANY OTHER EMAIL ADDRESS.