Engineering Customer Support Advisor

We have an opportunity for an Engineering Customer Support Advisor who has a “can do” attitude and strives to achieve customer satisfaction. You will join our team based in Witham, Essex on a full time, permanent basis. In return you will benefit from a dynamic and interesting role with excellent prospects for progression, with a competitive salary and benefits, including 28 days total annual leave (including Bank Holidays) and inclusion into a bespoke company incentive scheme.

The Dental Directory one of the largest full service dental dealers in the UK, supplying around 11,900 dental practices, with everything from toothbrushes to specialist medical equipment. It has built a reputation based on personal service and working in partnership with dentists to understand their business and support growth plans through superior product knowledge, competitive pricing and the capability to supply everything a modern practice requires.

As our Engineering Customer Support Advisor you must have a good level of commercial awareness and be driven to work to KPI targets.  You would be working in a fast paced office environment scheduling engineers planned and reactive maintenance requests from dental practices across England and Wales.  Our engineers are trained on a wide range of equipment including dental chairs, x-rays, autoclaves and compressors from the marketplace’s main manufacturers. 

Key Responsibilities of our Engineering Customer Support Advisor:

- Being first point of contact for engineering support to our customers on incoming phone calls.

- Efficient time and geographical management of engineers’ scheduling diary.

- Raise breakdown cases on the Microsoft CRM system, assign to an engineer and keep customer updated.  Follow any customer enquiry through to conclusion.

- Schedule in planned maintenance service work to ensure customer equipment is kept compliant to guidance and manufacturer’s standards.

- Building clients relationships and providing quality care and customer satisfaction.

- Being commercially driven working to service group KPI targets in terms of revenue, attendance to breakdowns and communication levels to customers.

- Respond knowledgeably to questions or queries from existing and future customers on our product and service offering.

- Working with business to business relationships primarily in the dental marketplace.

Essential Skills we’re looking for in our Engineering Customer Support Advisor:

- Experience of working in a call handling environment, preferably in the healthcare sector.

- Excellent telephone manner with strong communication and interpersonal skills.

- Strong organisation, co-ordination, time management and problem solving skills.

- Ability to establish and maintain good client relationships, both internally and externally at all levels.

- Ability to remain calm under pressure and manage clients’ issues and expectations suitably.

- Ability to work in a busy office environment that often demands high levels of concentration.

- Ability to respond effectively to changing priorities.

- Ability to manage high volume workload but remain focused.

- Willingness to accept responsibility.

- Good IT skills.

Previous experience in a similar scheduling role is preferred but not essential as full training will be provided.  What is more important is that you have excellent customer service skills, are diligent and can work as part of a team driven to meet your objectives.

If you would like to join our team as our new Engineering Customer Support Advisor then please click ‘apply’ today – don’t miss out, we’d love to hear from you!

CLOSING DATE: 01 March 2018

Due to volume of applications expected for this role, if you do not hear from us please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.