Contact Centre Service

**Some careers have more impact than others.**

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of **Contact Centre Service & Sales Associate**

**The Opportunity**:
Receives general inbound customer calls in a contact centre environment typically on a single product and or proposition. Provides high quality service to achieve maximum customer satisfaction by resolving the customer query at first contact where possible. Listens to the customer and establishes needs to offer relevant products. Takes ownership and initiative to complete necessary research and customer follow up or direct the customer to the appropriate department for resolution. Responsible for achieving individual targets and /or sales goals whilst maintaining quality and compliance.

**What you’ll do**:
**Principal Accountabilities: Key activities and decision making areas Typical Targets and Measures**

**Impact on the Business**
- Answers (or makes) phone calls from our HSBC customers in a polite and friendly way, instilling customer confidence and resolving customer’s issues at first contact where possible.
- Delivers what is promised in line with customer expectations
- Offers value added products and services based on customer needs analysis and ensures customer understanding of those products
- Individual service, quality and sales targets through proactively introducing customers to new and value adding products and services that meets their needs
- Targets on efficiency, quality and effectiveness
- Adherence to documented policies an procedures

**Customers / Stakeholders**
- Provides excellent customer service to basic inbound customer calls by keeping up to date on training and internal communications
- Generating customer loyalty through strong knowledge of key products and services
- Owns and resolves issues and understands how and when to escalate
- Quality monitoring scores
- Direct customer feedback via complaints, compliments and customer satisfaction surveys
- Completion of required training and accreditations
- Number of calls that lead to offering value added products and services through conversations with customers, incorporating needs analysis, building rapport, and overcoming objections

**Leadership & Teamwork**
- Acts as a role morel for our Group Values and Behaviours (Open, Connected, Dependable), supporting colleagues and customers to deliver superior customer service through these values
- Values diversity amongst team
- Contribution to team events and team meetings, and suggestions put forward for improvements or efficiency gains
- Completion of other team related duties as appropriate
- Displays patience and empathy

**Operational Effectiveness & Control**
- Knowledge of and implementation of the Group compliance policy, Operational Risk and SOX (Sarbanes
- Oxley Requirements) for RBWM Centres
- Maintains HSBC internal control standards, including the timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external 'regulators'
- Awareness of all elements of Operational Risk associated with the role in compliance to SOX for contact centres
- Completion of technical training that enhances system knowledge and proficiency
- Regular attendance at learning sessions and team meetings
- Adherence to clear desk and other internal policies
- Timely completion of mandatory compliance, risk and regulatory learning modules

Major Challenges (The challenges inherent in the role that require a continual test of the role holder’s abilities)
- Changing performance parameters (e.g. Scorecard changes)
- Understanding updates on procedural changes and compliance
- Achieving customer excellence in every contact

Role Context (The environment and operating conditions of the role including the extent of guidance and authority)
- The role operates within a RBWM Contact Centre and interacts with HSBC local and international customers, the post holder must have the ability to deal with different process, different countries, where applicable, and different customer attitudes and requests on a daily basis.

Management of Risk (Operational Risk / FIM requirements)

Maintain awareness of operational risk and minimize the likelihood of it occurring including its identification, assessment, mitigation and control, loss identification and reporting in accordance with section 4 of the Group Operations FIM.

Observation of Internal Controls (Compliance Policy / FIM requirements)

Maintain and observe HSBC internal control standards, including t