Merchants Recruitment Listings

Work With The Best

At Merchants our vision is to create meaningful and sustainable futures for our people, by driving a culture of continuous learning through the many skills and development programmes we offer, which are designed to develop talent and fulfil potential.

If you were born to deliver exceptional service, apply to join our professional team and be ready to kick start your career. We’re always looking for expectational talent and are known around the world for our outstanding customer experience using the latest technology, best practice models and processes, and innovative ground-breaking training techniques.

We place our people at the centre of everything we do and believe that the way you treat your customers and people differentiates us.

Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

The purpose of this role is to ensure the day-to-day management of a team of Agents, in a manner that is in line with excellent service delivery to meet the client’s contractual obligations.

People Management

• Coaches the team in order to ensure quality of delivery meets the appropriate standard
• Measures and manages the team to ensure out-of-line situations are immediately addressed
• Communicates information in a timely, accurate and understood manner to all team members
• Ensure that all Human Resources policies and procedures are observed

Communication and Feedback

• Conduct team briefs as scheduled by the work force management team and in line with the weekly focus agenda set by the Operations Managers
• Ensure regular feedback is given to Agents with regards to action plans that have been set
• Ensure all relevant business communications are communicated to the team as and when required

Reporting and Administration

• Sign off Agent’s timesheets on a weekly basis
• Track and accurately update operational performance files for Agents on a weekly basis
• Compiling and sending reports as required by the business for relevant updates

Customer Satisfaction

• Drive the focus on improving the customer experience on every interaction through call listening, quality checking, coaching and feedback
• Work to resolve all customer queries that are escalated or are identified as detracting from the positive customer experience that we intend to generate
• Drive teams’ performance on systems and all metrics in accordance with the contractual obligation

Requirements

• 1 year Call Centre experience
• 6 - 12 months Team Leader/Supervisory experience

As a Call Centre Agent (Customer Service Representative), you will be a leading Brand Ambassador serving as the first point of contact for customers. We are looking for candidates who have a keen interest in solving customer issues and answering questions while being committed to delivering exceptional customer service in a caring and considerate manner. In short, we are looking for a commitment to make every customer interaction enjoyable!
Responsibilities:

• Deliver first class service by accurately assessing and responding to customer needs, using sound judgment when recommending appropriate solutions.
• To fulfil customer requests, respond to inquiries/complaints, demonstrating due attention to customer care and a professional approach at all times.
• Respond to complex customer inquiries and complaints in a highly informed, accurate and responsible manner in accordance to resources provided.
• Accurately complete appropriate documentation for each interaction, and wrap up by inputting data for call history, sending messages to appropriate third parties when required, and/or initiating the necessary customer fulfilment.
• Remain current on program and product information by being committed to continuous learning.
• Maintain strict confidentiality at all times and adhere to legislation and service guidelines on the use of data.

Requirements

• Matric / NQF Level 4 qualification
• Min 6 months contact centre experience essential
• 6 months customer service experience required
• Speaks English, Zulu, Sotho or Afrikaans
• Able and willing to work rotational shifts
• 10 Hour shift including 1 hour lunch break (9 hour productive shift)
• Saturday, Sunday and Public Holiday
• 6 DAY SHIFT ROTATION (6am to midnight) within those parameters
• Demonstrated passion for customer satisfaction excellence and prior experience in an International Call Centre
• Interactive customer service environment required.
• Related experience in the food and/or retail industry considered an asset.
• Strong and developed oral and written communication skills, including typing, spelling and grammar.
• Demonstrated ability to implement change efforts.
• Ability to learn new skills/concepts and apply this knowledge quickly and accurately.
• Advanced knowledge of PCs and familiarity with system navigation.
• Positive attitude and demonstrated ability to get along with others.
• Professional, empathetic and naturally caring conversational style.
• Display tact and diplomacy in handling all levels of customer interaction.
• Ability to resolve complex, and often sensitive customer complaints/inquiries in a professional manner in accordance with company policies and procedures, values and best practice.
• Ability to work all required shifts.
• KZN

Become a CX Champion as Our New Associate

Do you have a passion for training, coaching, and elevating customer service quality? We're looking for a CX Associate to shape agent performance through dynamic training, impactful coaching, and thorough quality reviews.

What’s in it for you:

• Be the go-to expert for new hire readiness and ongoing performance
• Gain exposure to training, facilitation, coaching, and CX strategy
• Enjoy an engaging, fast-paced team environment
• Opportunity to grow into senior CX, training, or quality roles

What the role involves:

• Facilitate induction, product, and system training for new agents
• Deliver refresher sessions and OJT (on-the-job training)
• Conduct quality evaluations on client interactions
• Provide one-on-one coaching to develop agent performance
• Record and report on training, quality, and coaching outcomes
• Support floor walking and drive engagement during ramp-up phases

What you need to succeed:

• 12+ months experience in a contact centre environment
• 6+ months CX experience 
• Passion for training, people development, and customer excellence
• Strong communication and facilitation skills
• Ability to evaluate calls and provide actionable feedback
• Eye for process improvement and detail

Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

The purpose of this role is to ensure the day-to-day management of a team of Agents, in a manner that is in line with excellent service delivery to meet the client’s contractual obligations.

What would make you a good fit for this role?

• Must be willing and able to work in a shifted environment.

Requirements

• 1 year Call Centre experience
• 6 – 12 months Team Leader/Supervisory experience

Skills

• Customer service orientation
• Oral and written communication
• Planning and organizing
• Problem solving
• Teamwork
• Coaching
• Technical expertise – Call Centre technology
• Attention to Detail

What will you be doing?

1. People Management

Coaches the team in order to ensure quality of delivery meets the appropriate standard

• Measures and manages the team to ensure out-of-line situations are immediately addressed
• Communicates information in a timely, accurate and understood manner to all team members
• Ensure that all Human Resources policies and procedures are observed

2. Communication and Feedback

Conduct team briefs as scheduled by the work force management team and inline with the weekly focus agenda set by the Operations Managers

• Ensure regular feedback is given to Agents with regards to action plans that have been set
• Ensure all relevant business communications are communicated to the team as and when required

3. Reporting and Administration

• Sign off Agents timesheets on a weekly basis
• Track and accurately update operational performance files for Agents on a weekly basis
• Compiling and sending reports as required by the business for relevant updates

Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

The HR Consultant is responsible for providing overall HR support to the business areas as well as ensuring that HR policies and practices are implemented in line with best practice and Group standards.

Requirements

• Completed or studying towards an HR diploma/degree

• Minimum 2-3 years, HR experience

• Knowledge of LRA

• Knowledge of BCoE, SDA

• Sage 300 People experience will be advantageous

What will you be doing?

Recruitment and Induction

• Assists management with the development of Job Profiles and Specifications
• Delivers on recruitment requirements for the business areas
• Ensures all new employees are taken through an induction

Administration and Reporting

• Completes all letters, contracts, benefits documentation in an accurate and timely manner
• Provides regular and thorough HR reporting back to the Head of HR and the Business areas as required
• Addresses all payroll issues in a timely manner
• Updates the HR systems with all relevant information
• Updates headcount and attrition reports and maintains an accurate staff list at all times

Industrial and Employee Relations

• Advises on, and implements disciplinary processes as required and in accordance with legislation and company policy
• Supports and ensures preparedness of line management in disciplinary matters
• Documents and minutes the results of all disciplinary hearings
• Brings any out-of line situation to management’s attention

Performance Management

• Advises and ensures implementation of performance management through the People Dimension System for all permanent staff on the DD payroll
• Rolls out HR initiatives as required for Group HR and Merchants

Employee Well-being

• Informs line mangers in respect of advisory services available to employees
• Co-ordinates wellness day activities
• Recognizes new trends and patterns of behavior and alerts management

Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

The purpose of this position is to provide the business with accurate and meaningful information, to enhance service delivery and manage performance.

Requirements

• 2 Years Information Management experience, preferable in a call centre environment
• MS Office (Advanced)
• Proficiency with Power BI
• Proficiency with DAX/Python
• Understanding of databases and data frameworks
• Proficiency in MS Excel and Power Query
• Proficiency in SQL Scripting and SQL Server
• Proficiency in SSIS/SSMS

Responsibilities

Database and Report Management

• Identifies relevant sources of data from which to draw information.
• Agrees specification format with stakeholders.
• Gathers and collates information into a report and ensures accuracy.
• Ensures accuracy of exception capturing and real time reporting.
• Setup and design reports accordingly to stakeholder requirements.
• Document Management Information Standard Operational Procedure for all supported Business Units.
• Clearly document stakeholder requirements for new/amended report requirements.
• Extract data into correct format from SQL / Other data sources.
• Provide recommendations to stakeholders on effective data capturing and storage to ensure timely delivery of reporting.
• Ongoing monitoring of data sources to ensure efficient delivery of data to stakeholders.
• manage and maintain the daily delivery and validation of operational reporting for various business units.
• Design operational report requirements in Power BI for the relevant Business Units.
• Delivers reporting requirements timeously.
• Ensures accuracy of exception capturing and real time reporting.
• Reviews adherence and shrinkage reporting on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Provides information to staffing service providers in respect of employee statistics.
• Checks staff coverage and reports staff shortfalls to operations.

Stakeholder Management

• Attend stakeholder meetings as required, provide feedback on progress and recording issues that need attention.
• Provide feedback to BI Team on areas of concern that need focus.
• Effectively communicate changes/updates to all stakeholders as applicable.
• Provide direction to stakeholders on required reporting within the context of Enterprise Information Platform.
• Effectively communicate and work with the Data Analysts and Data Engineers to design new data requirements that fall outside of the currently available dataset.

Analysis

• Interprets data to identify trends and risks.
• Explores and identifies reasons for trends.
• Analyses and documents business processes, including recommendations for improvement against the identified weaknesses.
• Provide trend analysis and recommendations to relevant stakeholders as applicable.
• Monitors absenteeism trends and flags anomalies
• Makes recommendations to mitigate absenteeism risk.
• Briefs Operations Management on recommended service level risk mitigation plan
• Reviews performance across skill sets and revises schedules and forecasts to improve site performance.
• Facilitates the process of information analysis and report development for the Business Area

Data Security

• Maintains data standards in accordance with business requirements, Dimension Data and Merchants policies and the data protection legislation.
• Works in accordance with the security information requirements and procedures of the company.
• Controls access to databases environments through permissions and privileges.

Work With The Best

At Merchants our vision is to create meaningful and sustainable futures for our people, by driving a culture of continuous learning through the many skills and development programmes we offer, which are designed to develop talent and fulfil potential.

If you were born to deliver exceptional service, apply to join our professional team and be ready to kick start your career. We’re always looking for expectational talent and are known around the world for our outstanding customer experience using the latest technology, best practice models and processes, and innovative ground-breaking training techniques.

We place our people at the centre of everything we do and believe that the way you treat your customers and people differentiates us.

Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

The purpose of this role is to ensure the day to day management of a team of Agents, in a manner that is in line with excellent service delivery to meet the client’s contractual obligations.

1. People Management

• Coaches the team in order to ensure quality of delivery meets the appropriate standard
• Measures and manages the team to ensure out-of-line situations are immediately addressed
• Communicates information in a timely, accurate and understood manner to all team members
• Ensure that all Human Resources policies and procedures are observed

2. Communication and Feedback

• Conduct team briefs as scheduled by the work force management team and inline with the weekly focus agenda set by the Operations Managers
• Ensure regular feedback is given to Agents with regards to action plans that have been set
• Ensure all relevant business communications are communicated to the team as and when required

3. Reporting and Administration

• Sign off Agents timesheets on a weekly basis
• Track and accurately update operational performance files for Agents on a weekly basis
• Compiling and sending reports as required by the business for relevant updates

Requirements

• 1 year Call Centre experience
• 6 – 12 months Team Leader/Supervisory experience

Additional Requirements
Currently on a Personal Development Plan
Experience in a Sales environment is an advantage
Worked in American culture sector.

Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

The purpose of this role is to lead and manage the Team Leaders within the business unit, ensuring the operational performance metrics are met.

What would make you a good fit for this role?

Must be willing and able to work in a shifted environment.

Requirements:

• Knowledge of and experience in contact centre performance metrics and reporting
• 2 years as a Team Leader
• Able to lead both customer service and sales teams

What you'll be doing

People Management

• Coaches and supports Team Leaders
• Day to day management of Team Leader performance
• Documents Team Leaders Personal Development Plans
• Regularly communicates to Team Leaders and Agents
• Develops performance promises for all Team Leaders and conducts midyear and annual reviews.
• Ensures that all Human Resources policies and procedures are observed.

Customer Relations

• Manages customer escalations and complaints.
• Ensures operational delivery is in line with contractual obligations.
• Provides input and participates in calibration sessions.

Reporting & Administration

• Provides relevant internal and external reports as per the business unit requirements.
• Analyses business data identifying and highlighting trends to the management team.
• Monitors absenteeism and adherence.
• Compiles ad hoc reports as and when required.
• Analyses operational data and takes relevant action.
• Reviews current reporting tools and suggests improvements to meet the Management Information requirements of the organisation.
• Arranges log ons for new employees.
• Ensures Agent time sheets are accurately completed and timeously submitted.

Now Hiring: French-Speaking Agents – Banking, Fraud & Disputes 🇫🇷🇨🇦

Are you fluent in French and passionate about delivering exceptional customer experiences? Join our team supporting a leading digital banking brand.

You’ll be helping customers with everyday banking, handling fraud investigations, and managing transaction disputes, all while working in a fast-paced, customer-first environment aligned to Canadian business hours.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist French and English-speaking customers with their Account.
• Provide accurate, empathetic banking support across phone, email, and chat
• Document cases clearly and follow all compliance and data security protocols
• Escalate complex cases when needed and collaborate with internal fraud teams

Requirements:

• Fluent in French and proficient in English
• 6–12 months of customer service or call centre experience (banking or financial services a plus)
• Matric / NQF Level 4 / SAQA
• Strong attention to detail, problem-solving, and data accuracy
• Able to remain calm and professional in sensitive or high-stress situations
• Comfortable using multiple systems and digital tools
• Authorised to work in South Africa 

Join Our Team as a Call Centre Agent (Customer Service Representative)
Location: KZN/Durban | Shift Work: Rotational, including nights & weekends
Are you passionate about helping others? Do you thrive in fast-paced environments and love solving problems? If yes—we want YOU on our team!
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What You'll Do
As a Call Centre Agent, you’ll be the friendly voice customers rely on. You'll handle queries with professionalism and empathy, ensuring every interaction leaves a positive impression.
Your daily role will include:
•  Resolving customer queries related to billing, connectivity, and general services
•  Providing tailored solutions and identifying upselling opportunities
•  Capturing call details accurately and efficiently
•  Mastering product knowledge to confidently assist every customer
•  Always delivering service with care, patience, and a smile—even over the phone!
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What You Bring
•  Matric / NQF Level 4
•  6+ months experience in a customer service or call centre role (preferred)
•  Fluency in English, Zulu & Sotho or/and Afrikaans
•  Excellent communication, multitasking, and problem-solving skills
•  Availability for rotational shifts, including weekends and public holidays
•  A positive, can-do attitude and a genuine passion for helping others
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Work Hours
•  7-day week, including weekends & holidays
•  Rotational shifts
•  Dynamic and supportive team environment
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Ready to Apply?
If you're resilient, tech-savvy, and ready to make a difference—this is your opportunity to shine in a high-energy, people-first call centre.
Apply now and be part of a team that’s powered by purpose and driven by passion.