Client Service Technician

Client Service Technician

We are looking for a Client Service Technician to join Ecclesiastical Planning Services in our Gloucester office. Competitive salary and excellent benefits.

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location: Gloucester

Job Ref: 205578

About the role

Ecclesiastical Planning Services, who are proudly part of Benefact Group, are looking for a Client Service Technician to join our Gloucester office.

As a Client Service Technician you will contribute to defined service delivery providing a professional, prompt and knowledgeable level of customer service and associated administration to EPSL’s Funeral Director business partners and their customers.

Why join us?

What you'll be doing

• Take ownership of own workload and engage in proactive workflow management in your team, to maintain SLAs

• Support the wider team with day-to-day administration and call handling, ensuring delivery of excellent customer service

• Liaise professionally with funeral directing partners and third-party suppliers as required

• Keep accurate and timely records using the Company’s back-office administration systems

• Build and maintain effective internal relationships within EPSL and the wider Group to deliver exceptional customer service, providing technical support to colleagues regarding business processes.

• Specialise in one/more of the areas below providing the necessary technical knowledge and expertise in that area: Call Handling, General Administration, Claims or New Business.

What you'll need to have

• Excellent and confident telephone manner

• Excellent written communication and numeracy skills

• Experience of Microsoft packages e.g. Word and Excel

• Proven organisational skills

• Flexible attitude and approach and excellent team player

• Maths GCSE level grade C/equivalent or above

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it

• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution

• Generous annual bonus scheme: on-target bonus between

  6%and24%
• 25days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme

• £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice

• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Full study support to gain professional qualifications

• Access to virtual GP

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

About us

Ecclesiastical Planning Services (EPS) work with a UK-wide network of funeral directors to provide pre-paid funeral plans. Our business is based on trust, so we focus on personal service, offering guidance and support to funeral directors and families when they need it most.

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.
If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.

*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26

Company Ecclesiastical Planning Services Role Administration Location Gloucester Employment type Permanent - Full Time