Customer Support Assistant
Brent Cross
Customer support is like an office admin/retail hybrid job. We deal with customers as per usual but also hold administrative duties i.e booking appointments, sending emails to customers/suppliers and check up on other departments to make sure we all solve our customers queries on time. Below is an over view of what I have done in my time here - Deal with customer queries, VAT returns, signing people up to a John Lewis credit card, dealing with lost property and help the customer service and other departments with queries. Use connex to deal with customer cases and complaints. Work in the Bureau De Change. Also book appointments for the gift list customers. Take phone calls from call centres and customers to help them with their queries and also send/reply to emails to other staff or customers. Dealing with customer injury/damage to property cases before they get sent to insurance companies for further investigation if need be. We investigate and if deemed necessary we give the customer compensation or relay why we can't depending on the situation. We pass it on to insurance if the customer is not happy with our response or if the damage is very severe. Was made an "empowered partner" which means I am there to ensure the smooth running of the department in a manager's absence and to take more responsibility in terms of delegating workloads and making important decisionsI was brought back from furlough to be a part of the systems team and helped bring back all of our systems for the reopening of our store, and had to make sure all our computers, phones and other devices were in working order. Anything not working was either troubleshooted on site by me and my colleagues, or if the issue persisted was passed on to our off site tech support teams to help us with.