Front Counter - Customer Service Agent
$15.00 HR
This customer service agent is responsible for assisting internal and external customers to include answering phone calls, accurate data entry and preparing job related paperwork for the purpose of satisfying the customer’s needs and achieving audience development department goals. The customer service team is expected to contribute to delivering on these targets, anticipate shortfalls and identify areas for improvement or alternative plans to meet established goals as necessary.
Regular and reliable attendance is required as well as some weekends/holidays.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS include the following. Other duties may be assigned as needed to ensure success for the assigned newspaper(s).
- Responsible for handling inquiries from the call center, distributors and management as well as answer the phone calls from customers.
- Responsible for any daily processing of information and daily work that can include payments, starts vacation stops and customer complaints as they pertain to all products both print and digital and include the assigned newspaper but also involve other publications, TMC products, Sunday Select and alternate publications.
- Responsible to include but not limited to the following:
- Achieving a designated percent of stop saves
- Managing customer support tickets
- Promoting both print and digital subscriptions
- Handling e-mail correspondence and keeping abreast of changes as these occur in the department and company
- Enter all data accurately and timely and maintain the integrity of the database and verify data entered.
- Resolve customer complaints satisfactorily or facilitate in this resolution by providing information to the appropriate supervisor and following up with the customer when necessary.
- Routinely ask for VacPaks, NIE donations, upgrades and save customers in order to achieve Audience Development departmental goals.
- Schedule advertising in appropriate systems and collect payment for walk-in customers placing obits, personal ads, etc
- Receive incoming calls, transfer to appropriate Dept/Employee
- Assist guest sign-in as necessary
- Reconcile cash drawer daily and submit for deposit
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university and 1-2 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- A prior work history that demonstrates strong successful leadership ability and solid understanding of complexities of newspaper circulation, sales, distribution and marketing is preferred.
- Must have the ability to deal with frustrated customers with professionalism and patience. Requires strong interpersonal skills, excellent listening and communication skills, ability to deal with customer issues in a timely and efficient manner, and a pleasant phone manner.
- Must have strong keyboarding/data entry skills, operate a computer, and the ability to work varied shifts, weekends and holidays.
- Bilingual a plus.