Customer Services Team Leader
Are you the kind of leader who can keep a team motivated, performance high, and customers happy - even when the pressure is on?
This is an opportunity for a hands-on leader who enjoys being in the thick of a fast-paced operation - coaching people, driving standards, solving problems in real time, and leading from the front when it matters most.
As Customer Services Team Leader, you'll lead and support a team of Customer Service Advisors across a busy multi-channel environment, ensuring service delivery, quality, compliance, and customer experience remain consistently high.
This role combines people leadership with operational responsibility - ideal for someone who enjoys coaching teams, improving performance, and making quick, confident decisions in a live operational setting.
You'll play a key role in shaping culture, embedding best practice, and helping create a high-performing and collaborative customer service environment.
Day to Day
- Lead day-to-day operations for your team, ensuring service levels and customer outcomes are achieved
- Coach, support, and develop Customer Service Advisors through regular 1:1s and performance management
- Monitor workload, demand, and capacity, making real-time operational decisions
- Support live customer interactions during peak demand periods when required
- Manage performance, quality, attendance, and conduct consistently and fairly
- Handle escalated customer queries, complaints, and risk-based decisions professionally
- Complete quality reviews and support calibration activities across the operation
- Identify trends and opportunities for continuous improvement using operational data and customer feedback
- Support onboarding, training, and embedding of new processes and operational changes
- Work collaboratively with Compliance, QA, Training, and wider Operations teams
- Previous experience leading or supervising teams within a fast-paced customer service environment
- Strong understanding of service delivery, operational KPIs, and quality standards
- Excellent communication and coaching skills
- Ability to manage difficult conversations and complex customer situations confidently
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise under pressure
- Comfortable working across multiple systems and operational tools
- Positive, resilient, and accountable leadership style
- Experience within betting/gaming, financial services, retail, utilities, or another regulated environment would be beneficial
- Fully on-site role based in Birchwood
- Two-week structured onboarding programme (Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm)
- Shift-based rota across a seven-day operation
- Working hours cover 06:45-22:00 on an 8-week rolling rota (5 days from 7)
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