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Customer Experience Officer

  • Full time
  • £23,122 – £25,224
  • Flexible within the UK. Home-based, blended or office working from Edinburgh, London, Cardiff, or Belfast.
  • Closing 13th September 2023


  • Advertised from 1st September 2023
  • Salary depending on experience.
  • Ref: KM 1117

Role

Energy Saving Trust is a leading and trusted organisation, dedicated to promoting energy efficiency, low carbon transport and sustainable energy use. We aim to address the climate emergency and deliver the wider benefits of clean energy as we transition to net zero.

At Energy Saving Trust we don’t just offer jobs – we offer careers. For our people, being part of the effort to address the climate emergency makes working for us truly meaningful and rewarding.

As well as investing in our mission, we invest in our people and culture. We’re committed to creating an engaging, supportive, and inclusive workplace for all and providing opportunities for development, training, and growth. We also provide a range of benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, and a wellbeing allowance.

Please see our careers page for more information on why Energy Saving Trust is a great place to work.

The team

  • An exciting opportunity to become part of Energy Saving Trust’s customer experience team. With the customer at the heart of everything we do, we are dedicated to understanding and continuously improving all things customer experience.
  • Leaning on the expertise of project experts and teams, we consult and support on any potential customer touchpoint improvements helping advice teams to succeed.
  • We collaborate closely with our internal advice teams and Home Energy Scotland (HES) subcontractors to support them to provide a world class service and meet or exceed contracted standards.

We achieve this through:

  • Continuous evaluation and customer feedback analysis.
  • Identifying and implementing continuous improvement areas.
  • Influential coaching and feedback support.
  • Ensuring quality advisor resources and training are in place to aid continuous success.
  • Exploring and implementing digital engagement channels to enhance customer experience options.

The role

  • Support Energy Saving Trust advice teams and Home Energy Scotland subcontractors to deliver a world class service for all our customers, meeting or exceeding contracted customer experience standards across all customer facing channels.
  • Maintain and improve the quality of internal resources and develop projects that support advice teams to succeed.
  • Be the team’s customer feedback specialist.

What you’ll do

  • Complete comprehensive regular quality monitoring spot-checks for our advice services. Ensuring that Delivery Standards are being used consistently by local evaluators, and that feedback is effective, and results are accurate.
  • Data and trend analysis from various sources and create trackers and reports that identify performance standards, trends and required focus areas.
  • Develop and deliver training courses/sessions for the team to ensure performance standards are met and continuous improvement is evident for new and existing staff.
  • Coach people and influence accountability to nurture a continuous improvement culture.
  • Support the handling of customer feedback and complaints. This will include handling challenging customers, dealing with escalated complaints, customer satisfaction analysis, identifying trends and addressing training needs for the Advice Centre.
  • Provide support on any current project-based work which contributes to the overall customer experience related objectives.

What you’ll bring

  • Previous quality monitoring experience or evaluation of others’ work and/or expertise in coaching, feedback and influencing accountability in others.
  • A strong customer focus with a passion for customer experience excellence who is solution focused, driven by success and results who challenges high standard performances of self and others.
  • Good analytical and research skills to identify and report on opportunities.
  • Effective feedback and collaboration approaches, coupled with coaching, leadership and influencing skills which supports and develops others and promotes accountability.
  • Experience of delivering training sessions is desirable.
  • Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite.

This is a permanent position. Our standard weekly hours are 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday. This will need to be a full-time role.

We are open to flexible working locations (within the UK) and as standard we offer all contracts on blended (home and office-based) working.

Application notes

To apply, please visit our websiteand send your CV and cover letter. In your cover letter please explain how you meet the essential areas in the job description. Please state the job reference you are applying for in the subject line. Applications submitted without a covering letter will not be considered.

Applications close 5pm, 13 September 2023. Interviews are intended to be held 20 & 21 September 2023.

If you think you may need additional support or adjustments made to any part of the application/recruitment process, please get in touch.

The majority of our people are working from home but have access to our office locations – Edinburgh, London, Cardiff, and Belfast. We will we be happy to discuss this and our blended working model at the interview stage with you.

Please note that we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. In order to apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

Our commitment to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace.

To address the urgent challenges posed by the climate emergency, we need a diversity of people, experiences, and ideas. We strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with Energy Saving Trust. If there is anything we can do to support you in applying, please get in touch with us. Please note that we will always ensure that a fair recruitment process is followed for all candidates and appointments will be made based on merit.