Merchants Recruitment Listings

Ready to lead, inspire, and drive performance? We're looking for a dynamic Team Leader to manage a group of high-performing Agents and deliver exceptional customer service every day.

💼 What You'll Do:

• Coach and support your team to meet quality standards
• Communicate clearly and consistently
• Monitor performance and take action when needed
• Lead team briefs and feedback sessions
• Keep reports and timesheets up to date
• Resolve escalated customer queries with care
• Drive customer satisfaction through coaching and call quality

📋 What You’ll Need:

• 1+ year Call Centre experience
• Fluent in French and English
• 6–12 months in a Team Leader or Supervisory role
• Strong communication, planning, and coaching skills
• A passion for teamwork and customer service

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
• Fluency in both English and French

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.

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

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 that the day to day management of a CX team is in line with CX deliverables according to SOW’s & OLA’s.

1. Service delivery

• Ensure that the planning, administration and logistics to deliver CX activities ensures timeous and effective delivery of outcomes as agreed with CX manager.

• Planning of annual training schedules based on business
• Execution of the operational & statutory training and measurable achievement of learning outcomes
• Ensure Training, Quality & Coaching compliance with standards as prescribed by PBS
• Ensures team members’ knowledge of the business product, systems & processes is current, relevant and up to date.
• Ensure facilitation skills and material are delivered to the required standards

2. Collaboration and Optimization

• Conducts regular Voice of Customer sessions within the business unit to ensure an understanding of quality standards and requirements.
• Conducts regular calibration sessions to ensure the validity and reliability of results
• Working collaboratively with the CX Manager and analysts to provide information/data, raise triggers and make recommendations for improvement accordingly.

3. Governance, Compliance and Best Practice

• Ensures that the standards of the Merchants Quality, Learning & Coaching Management Frameworks are complied with and delivered effectively within the Business.
• Implement and conduct controls and perform regular checks to ensure validity and reliability of results (including QA moderation)
• Monitors the activities of the CX associates to ensure compliance with acceptable standards of customer service

4. Escalations

• Ensures disputes and complaints from operational teams are investigated, responded to and tracked
• Identifies and escalates risks and quality issues to resolve them as efficiently as possible.

5. CX Reporting

• Delivers data to meet CX, and the Business Unit requirements and timelines & deadlines

6. People Management

• Provide leadership and guidance to payroll administrators
• Coaches to ensure an understanding of consequences of errors
• Ensure teamwork and co-operation within the team
• Communicate Merchants objectives and alignment of the department to the objectives
• Enforce compliance to company policies, procedures, and legislation
• Development of staff to ensure best practice standards and knowledge of relevant legislation
• Ensures performance reviews are completed
• Identify poor performance and actions appropriately.

Requirements

• Minimum 1 or 2 years CX experience
• Experience of Training environment
• Experience of Quality environment

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 train, coach and evaluate agents’ interactions, ensuring the agents are ready, prepared and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

Training

• Delivers induction, product, systems, and customer experience training to agents
• Deliver refresher training as required
• Creates a training environment conducive to providing the best possible learning experience
• Ensures completion of learning assessments and provides relevant feedback

Quality Evaluations

• Monitors and evaluates agent’s client interactions against the agreed methodology.
• Identifies areas of strength, development, and process improvements.

 Coaching

• Provides coaching in a confidential setting to improve and/or maintain service, minimize errors, and capture coaching feedback onto the relevant system

 General

• Operates within agreed work schedule and meet quality standards independently.
• Remain relevant through call taking and/or listening.
• Do floor walking and agent support during OJT (on-the-job training).
• Facilitate calibration and/or voice of customer sessions.

Administration, Record Keeping and Reporting

• Accurately record training and coaching interventions
• Provides feedback on training material updates required
• Provides quality reports per the business unit requirements

Requirements

• Matric or equivalent NQF
• 12 months contact centre experience.

Additional Requirements

Experience in Training environment

Experience in Quality environment

Must have Collections experience

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 that the day to day management of a CX team is in line with CX deliverables according to SOW’s & OLA’s.

1. Service delivery

• Ensure that the planning, administration and logistics to deliver CX activities ensures timeous and effective delivery of outcomes as agreed with CX manager.

• Planning of annual training schedules based on business
• Execution of the operational & statutory training and measurable achievement of learning outcomes
• Ensure Training, Quality & Coaching compliance with standards as prescribed by PBS
• Ensures team members’ knowledge of the business product, systems & processes is current, relevant and up to date.
• Ensure facilitation skills and material are delivered to the required standards

2. Collaboration and Optimization

• Conducts regular Voice of Customer sessions within the business unit to ensure an understanding of quality standards and requirements.
• Conducts regular calibration sessions to ensure the validity and reliability of results
• Working collaboratively with the CX Manager and analysts to provide information/data, raise triggers and make recommendations for improvement accordingly.

3. Governance, Compliance and Best Practice

• Ensures that the standards of the Merchants Quality, Learning & Coaching Management Frameworks are complied with and delivered effectively within the Business.
• Implement and conduct controls and perform regular checks to ensure validity and reliability of results (including QA moderation)
• Monitors the activities of the CX associates to ensure compliance with acceptable standards of customer service

4. Escalations

• Ensures disputes and complaints from operational teams are investigated, responded to and tracked
• Identifies and escalates risks and quality issues to resolve them as efficiently as possible.

5. CX Reporting

• Delivers data to meet CX, and the Business Unit requirements and timelines & deadlines

6. People Management

• Provide leadership and guidance to payroll administrators
• Coaches to ensure an understanding of consequences of errors
• Ensure teamwork and co-operation within the team
• Communicate Merchants objectives and alignment of the department to the objectives
• Enforce compliance to company policies, procedures, and legislation
• Development of staff to ensure best practice standards and knowledge of relevant legislation
• Ensures performance reviews are completed
• Identify poor performance and actions appropriately.

Requirements

• Minimum 1 or 2 years CX experience
• Experience of Training environment
• Experience of Quality environment