Do you have fantastic people skills? Can you deliver a great customer experience? If yes, we have the perfect job for you in our vibrant Bexhill office!
Our approach to Hybrid Working: With hybrid working, you have more flexibility, as you usually only have to visit our office once a week and work remotely for the rest of the time. You can always opt to work from the office more frequently if that suits you better. When we organise training and events you may be required to attend in person for the duration.
Working Hours/ Shift Patterns: You will work 37.5 hours per week including 3-4 weekends out of 8. If you work a weekend shift, you’ll get time off in lieu.
Our opening hours: Monday to Friday 08:00 – 19:00 and 09:00 to 17:00 at the weekends.
Location: Our fantastic Bexhill office which is next to the seafront and only a short walk away from Collington station.
Salary: Starting £23,500 plus benefits and the opportunity for further salary progression.
Training: The first 7 Weeks in the office, once you have completed your training you will move to hybrid working.
At Hastings Direct, we have a simple ambition – to be the best and biggest digital insurance provider in the UK. Our Customer teams play a huge role in that, speaking to thousands of customers every day, and delivering the high quality insurance service they deserve. Join our Customer Service team and you’ll play a key role in that service, helping customers to make changes to their policies, dealing with complaints and making sure they have the right cover.
Your role:
As a member of our Customer Service team, you’ll be handling inbound calls from customers who are interested in one of our policies or wish to make changes to an existing one. Whether they have a question, need to update their details or support purchasing one of our products, you’ll use your skills and knowledge to understand their needs, explain the options and provide them with the right policy every time. You’ll also deal with any complaints in a professional and empathetic manner and escalate them if needed. You’ll be expected to meet standards for quality, efficiency, and satisfaction, while providing policies that deliver the best value for both our customers and our business. In order to deal with a large number of callers with varying needs, you’ll need to be adaptable, resilient, and motivated.
What we offer:
Join us and you’ll find a different way of doing things. We call it the 4Cs. So, we focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company and community.
As one of our colleagues, you’ll be helping to drive our growth, so in return, we’ll give you all the support, training and development you need. Your initial training will cover our products and systems, as well as handling complaints, and will include taking live calls alongside an experienced colleague. Once you start to take calls on your own, you’ll have regular, on-going assessment and support from your team leader and colleagues. Not to mention plenty of recognition and rewards, and the scope to voice your ideas and put them into practice.
Benefits you’ll receive:
- Up to 5% annual discretionary Bonus
- Hybrid working (1 day per week in the office with the option to do more depending on your preference)
- A fantastic open plan modern office
- We promote a relaxed, friendly & diverse working environment
- ‘Harrys’ – a great onsite restaurant, with a wide range of choice at breakfast and lunchtime & an on-site Costa coffee
- 25 days holiday and bank holidays equivalent (plus buy and sell up to 5 days)
- Pension match up to 10% of your salary
- Life insurance (4 x base salary)
- Discounted Hasting Direct products
- Discounts & cashback with well-known retailers
- Tech scheme, cycle to work, health assessments, and skin check – on completion of probation
- Refer a friend scheme – earn £500 for every friend you refer
- We will provide you will all the tech that you need! Including a brand-new Microsoft Surface laptop
Our straightforward recruitment process:
Click apply now to fill out our short application form, most of which you can auto-fill using your CV
You will then receive a weblink via e-mail to our online assessment (normally received within six minutes) to our online assessment where you’ll experience a realistic job preview that will show you exactly what it’s like to be a part of #lifeatHD. In addition, through a number of tests, we’ll assess to what extent your preferences, personality, and skills are a good fit for our contact centre
The whole application process is smart phone enabled, just make sure you are in a quiet place somewhere you can concentrate
If you believe you require any reasonable adjustments in order to complete the online assessment and/or interview process due to disabilities or health conditions, please do contact the recruitment team at: prior to completing your application.
Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status. Please also note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes credit and criminal record checks.
