Customer Service Coordinator

WSET (Wine & Spirit Education Trust) is the worlds leading provider of wine spirits and sake qualifications; since 2003 over a million people have taken a course with WSET. Our courses are designed to inspire and empower anyone looking to develop their drinks knowledge from beginners to experts and from enthusiasts to professionals.

WSETs purpose is to empower people through inspiring learning experiences all over the world. We offer a comprehensive suite of globally recognised qualifications covering wines spirits sake and beer. Our qualifications are available in over 70 countries and 17 different languages via a network of over 800 centres (Approved Programme Providers). WSETs global operations are based in London with regional offices in Hong Kong Shanghai and the USA.

The Customer Service team culture is fastpaced and dynamic to ensure that our customer enquiries and services are delivered in a customercentric way.

Any offer of employment or your ongoing employment is conditional upon the successful completion of a thorough background check by an independent third party.

NB If you currently work for one of WSETs APPs you may not be eligible to apply for this role subject to your future career plans and the nature of that role. If you work for an APP either in a selfemployed or employed capacity and would like to discuss your eligibility please contact the hiring manager.

The Customer Service Coordinator is responsible for contributing to an environment of continuous improvement and customer focus to deliver a highlevel of service for our customers. You will take responsibility for responding to customer service enquiries via a range of channels and ensuring that all customers receive the best possible level of support in line with agreed KPIs / SLAs. You will embody and exemplify WSETs values in your mindset and behaviours.

Your success will be measured through the value you add to the organisation by driving continuous improvement and highquality customercentric performance and your contribution to WSETs culture and values of integrity trust empowerment inspiration dynamism and inclusivity.

Any offer of employment or your ongoing employment is conditional upon the successful completion of a thorough background check by an independent third party.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

1. Provide a consistently high level of customer service to all WSET customers

• Take ownership of providing resolutions to customer service enquiries received via any Customer Service channel in a manner consistent with WSETs Customer Service principles and agreed time frames.
• Proactively learn about responsibilities processes and tools used by different WSET departments to contribute to efficient resolution of customer queries.
• Contribute to creating an environment of continuous improvement and customer excellence to deliver an efficient bestinclass service for our customers.
• Engender a customer focused and global approach through exemplary rolemodelling and supportive coaching and development

2. Contribute to the ongoing development of WSETs Customer Service function

• Support the Customer Service Manager in maintaining and improving tools resources and processes used by the Customer Service team

3. Other

• Champion and communicate customer service imperatives and actions across the business collaborating with relevant stakeholders.
• Contribute to the Trust by undertaking other various tasks as required.
• Evolve in the role alongside the evolution of the dedicated WSET Customer Service function.

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Experience of highpaced customer service environments interacting with customers via variety of channels e.g. email phone webchat etc.
• Strong track record of personal performance and achieving objectives.
• Ability to collaborate across workstreams and find creative solutions to business challenges.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Candidate must be available to work Monday to Friday 9am5pm EST.

Desirable

• Experience using query/case management software
• Customer servicerelated qualifications or experience
• Additional languages relevant to WSET customers

Location: Remote

Available to Applicants in Delaware California Connecticut Florida Georgia Illinois Kansas Massachusetts Maryland North Carolina New Jersey Nevada New York Ohio Pennsylvania Texas Virginia Washington and Wisconsin.

USA Benefits

WSET Americas offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees subject to elections and eligibility. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• Competitive PTO and Holiday Schedules
• Competitive Health Benefits including Medical Dental Vision and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Bonus Eligibility
• Retirement Savings

US Applicants Only:

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

ESSENTIAL:
While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop; kneel crouch and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision distance vision depth perception peripheral vision and ability to adjust and focus.

DISCLAIMER:

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties skills efforts requirements or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned at any time.