Customer Support Team Lead - FTC
Partnerize
Who We Are:
The partnership channel offers scale and automation on a pay-for-performance model that delivers the operating leverage necessary for brand survival. Partnerize empowers marketers with technology built to discover, engage, and convert audiences, at scale, all while maintaining brand safety and control.
Why Join Us?
Our commitment to growing partnerships doesn't end with our clients. Our employees are carefully selected to be a part of our company because they emulate a carefully crafted and practiced set of core values that define us and our business. Joining Partnerize means joining a company that sincerely values your talent, expertise, and passion. We strive each day to hire and retain only the best. Doing so affords us the opportunity to be the best in the business, to exceed our clients' expectations, to innovate, to teach—and most importantly—to earn and maintain our clients’ loyalty.
Job Overview
The Customer Support team objective is to ensure all clients receive the best customer experience and understand the true value of Partnerize to grow revenue. As a team lead, you will manage members from the Customer Support Team, to ensure all tasks and project deadlines are met, to a high standard, whilst ensuring the support throughout the client tenure remains of the highest quality. The role involves identifying and implementing new processes to improve the efficiency of the team, as well as building a strong customer service and team work ethic. You will have the responsibility and authority to create and revise processes and tooling, and implement new solutions where applicable, whilst liaising with the rest of the management team in Customer Support. You will provide training and mentor the team, and will be responsible for people management, which includes (but is not limited to); quality reviews, monitoring and ensuring KPIs are met, whilst acting as a point of escalation for any Customer tickets or issues raised. You will also work with the team on responding to tickets. This entails replying directly to customers and solving tickets; providing information, troubleshooting and problem solving.
*This is a 1 year fixed term contract to cover maternity leave. It is also a hybrid role and will require you to work from our Newcastle office 1-2 days a week.*
Key Responsibilities
- Directly manage appointed members of staff, including logging sick days, approving holidays and other administrative management tasks
- Regularly quality check and review team members’ tickets to ensure KPIs are met
- Define, monitor & manage goals for direct reports
- Create and monitor progress of training & professional development plans for individuals
- Plan and organise team workload, tasks and projects
- Educate the team on all new and existing processes, and ensure they are adhered to
- Work with other team leads within the team and org, to ensure projects are up to date and deadlines are met
- Acting as a point of escalation for Customer Support issues and implement plan of action to resolve
- Provide documentation for both internal and external use
- Occasionally attend client facing events such as QBRs, deployment days and training sessions
- Work alongside team on tickets and support queries
- Recruit, interview and hire talent
Essential knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Leadership experience within customer support
- Industry and Sector expertise; either within affiliate marketing and/or within a SaaS/tech company, with ability to advise team on best practices
- Teamwork, strong work ethic and enthusiasm to develop talent
- Ability to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience
- Strong prioritisation and organisational skills
- Strong interpersonal and soft skills
- Comprehensive computer literacy
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
Desirable knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Experience in digital marketing
- Understanding of online tracking methodologies
- Experience writing guides and training material
- Project Management skills
- Previous experience in external or internal training
- Marketing, Advertising or Business degree
Australia Benefits & Perks
- 22 days holiday
- Enhanced Parental Leave: 6 months full pay for birth parent, 4 weeks non-birth parent at full pay after one year employment
- 5 extra 'Partnerize Parental Days' each year
- Private Medical Insurance through Bupa
- Enhanced Wellness Program including access to, Wellness Coaching & Wellness Fridays program
- Regular company events and activities
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to attracting, developing, and advancing our outstanding team members, regardless of race, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, gender identity, physical abilities, or any other dimension of diversity. We strive to foster an environment where people can be their authentic selves, raise concerns and innovate, all without fear; where they are treated fairly and respectfully, have equal access to opportunities and resources and can contribute fully to the organization’s success. Every individual in our business is expected to live this commitment without exception.
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