Customer Service Representative II
Job title: Customer Service Representative II in Kirkland, WA at Waste Management
Company: Waste Management
Job description: Job Category: CE Inbound Sales and ServiceJob Description:WM, a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects.I. Job Summary
The Customer Service Representative II position receives and processes inquiries from customers, serves as the end-to-end point of contact for customers, and resolves customer issues. The role manages a high volume of inbound and outbound interactions from CE partners via telephone and email.Schedule: Monday - Friday (8-5 PST)II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other minor duties may be assigned.
- Independently and proficiently fields customer service inquiries and transactions of low to high level complexity from residential, commercial, industrial, and/or public sector customers for assigned market area(s).
- Utilizes excellent and professional written and verbal communication skills to respond to incoming requests. Provides education and information regarding accounts, charges, billing, and contracts that may be standard or advanced.
- Communicates concise and accurate information.
- Establishes customer accounts by negotiating and documenting service type, pricing, billing, and other required information.
- Maintains customers' accounts by processing service change and billing requests.
- Confirms understanding of customer needs, issues, and requests.
- Listens for and identifies opportunities to cross sell additional products and services.
- Serves as the customer's advocate by solving problems on the customer's behalf by engaging the right department and people within WM.
- Escalates more complex issues to appropriate level.
- Supports other service lines when required; proficient in multiple queues/service lines.
- Adheres to service and operational standards established for the call center, including quality, productivity, Service Machine, safety and timeliness goals.
- Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to system queries, report management, and liaison among internal CE partners.
- Completes cross training with Operations, Sales and Billing.
- Able to perform outbound calling campaigns, as needed.
- Attempts to retain customers who call to cancel services by probing for cancellation reasons and offering alternatives.
- Strives to meet or exceed service and operational goals established for the call center, including productivity, quality, and timeliness goals.
- Serves as a training resource for new hires and other employees requiring assistance.
- This job has no supervisory duties.
- Education: High school diploma or G.E.D (accredited)
- Experience: Two (2) years previous experience in customer service or call center environment handling customer requests, account or order changes and issues.
- Preferred: One (1) or more years of experience as a WM Customer Service Representative
- Excellent verbal, written and analytical skills
- Proficiency in MS Office
- Strong Keyboarding Skills
- Professional phone and email communication skills
- A positive and engaged attitude
- Handle the stress of multi-tasking
- Possesses an energetic and tenacious achievement orientation
- Utilize multiple applications (4+) on one or more screens
- Ability to react well under pressure and treats others with
- Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner
- Excellent time management skills to prioritize and plan work activities
- Focuses on solving conflicts and listening to others without interrupting
- Is consistently at work and on time
- Work efficiently and effectively, both independently and as a team to ensure exceeding call center's standards
- Balances team and individual responsibilities and helps build a positive team spirit
- Adapts and able to deal with frequent changes in the work environment
- Able to manage difficult or emotional customer situations and respond promptly to service requests to meet customer commitments
- Demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness to meet productivity standards in a timely manner
- Show inquisitiveness and eagerness to gain business-related knowledge; proactively seeks out both formal and informal experiences that can provide new skills, behaviors and/or knowledge
- None required.
- Normal setting for this job is: remote but candidates must live in Kirkland, WA