Customer Support Specialist (German-speaking)
Cision employs the brightest, most passionate people in the tech industry. We’d love for you to join our growing team! We invest in our people through training and professional development while supporting you along the way—all so you can meet your career goals. To us, the most important measure of our success is yours.
The Customer Support Specialist develops a culture of Customer Excellence through prompt and thorough handling of customer problems, answering product and service questions and suggesting information about other products or services.
Work Timings: Standard UK hours on the following shift patterns. It will be rotational.
7 AM - 3:30PM GMT/BST*(11:30 AM - 8:00PM IST)
9 AM – 5:30 PM GMT/BST * (1:30 PM -10 PM IST)
10 AM - 6:30PM GMT/BST*(2:30 PM - 11:00 PM IST)
(*excluding one-hour unpaid lunch break)
Principal duties and responsibilities:
- Answers customer support requests via the telephone or the web promptly to enhance the customer experience.
- Patiently listens attentively to customers queries and manages the resolution or connects them with the appropriate teams to address their needs.
- Quickly learns the functions of the support tools and systems to log in and resolve customers’ requests.
- Accurately records and logs interactions with customers and updates account information and able to retrieve this information to create reports for management.
- Resolves platform or service problems by clarifying the customers complaint, determining the root cause of the problem, selecting, and explaining the best solution to solve the problem, expediting correction or adjustment.
- Works with management to maintain best practices for efficient communications with customers.
- Address customer questions about new products or services.
- Collaborates with Customer Success Managers and Onboarding Consultants to ensure service excellence.
- Contributes to bottom line sales by increasing customer satisfaction and reducing customer churn.
- Undertake other tasks or projects as requested by management.
Qualifications:
- Excellent communication skills.
- German language proficiency.
- Previous customer support experience (1 to 3 years).
- Excellent listening skills.
- Able to work as a team.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Detail orientated.
- Problem solver.
- Good analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Able to resolve conflict.
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