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 provide general administrative support to the Business Area.

1. Secretarial
• Screens calls and ensures accurate and timely messages are provided
• Manages diaries
• Greets all visitors to the Business Unit
• Ensures all equipment is set up as necessary, prior to meetings
• Ensures all refreshments are appropriately organised
• Assists with all correspondence from the client

2. Administration
• Organises necessary logistics for meetings and other occasions
• Manages office stationary, supplies and place orders when necessary, managing the supplier relationship
• Completes all office filing, faxing, printing, binding, photocopying, scanning and e-mailing
• Makes travel arrangements when required
• Processes payments
• Types correspondence
• Manages and updates notice boards
• Takes meeting minutes
• Logs all facility queries, tracks and escalates where necessary
• Compiles necessary administration reports

3. Purchase Orders
• Processes all purchase orders accurately and timeously
• Files all POs according to recipients
• Ensures all cross charges are completed on a monthly basis
• Provides a record with all necessary payment information, including proof of
payments
• Assumes responsibility for the Business Unit’s petty cash
• Captures the relevant data on the procurement system

Requirements

• Minimum matric or equivalent NQF
• Minimum 2 years secretarial experience
• Advanced MS Suite

Additional Requirements

* Are you willing and able to work in a night shift environment (Monday - Friday 2pm -8am) occasionally as per client requirements working weekends

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?

What you will be doing;

The purpose of the role is to understand our customers and how best to serve them, relevant to the market and current market trends, through training and quality management systems and by
implementing best practice methodologies.



Service delivery
• Ensures provision and achievement of all operational training requirements
• Ensures that all statutory training and reporting requirements are met
• Establishes monthly and annual training schedules based on business requirement and within resource availability and ensures compliance
• Establishes facilities standards for training delivery and ensures standards are met
• Establishes and implements all relevant policies and procedures for CX delivery
• Ensure that training days are scheduled and that the administration and logistics relating to these learning interventions are completed prior to its implementation
• Ensure Training Needs Analysis are conducted following the Merchants methodology
• Defines and develop customized programmes based on the needs they have identified
• Responsible for timeous and effective delivery of CX, product, process, systems, and behavioral training to operational and support employees
• Ensures team members’ knowledge of the business product, systems & processes is current and relevant
• Observe Facilitation and review Material to ensure delivery to the required standards
• Developing, executing, implementation, measuring and review quality improvement strategies through robust root cause problem solving and focused action management
• Verifying Quality Metrics, drive achievement of goals and trigger containment and corrective actions
• Manages delivery of customer experience programs by analyzing data to identify key priorities and aligns, training, quality program and other corrective activities to assess and address identified area

Collaboration and Optimization
• Collaborates with stakeholders to determine training requirements and priorities
• Conducts regular Voice of Customer sessions within the business unit to ensure an understanding of quality standards and requirements.
• Meets with the Operational Management team at a minimum once a month to provide feedback on quality performance, trends and focus areas
• Conducts regular calibration sessions to ensure the validity and reliability of results
• Enhance Customer Success quality management system, informed by best practices and in
collaboration with BPS
• Working with the Operational teams, and the clients to understand data and customer needs to ensure customer experience is enhanced throughout the process and training initiatives
• Collaborates with Operations and the People Development team to ensure that competence gaps are filled.
• Identifies trends and common challenges, collaborate with peers, and makes
recommendations for solutions

Governance, Compliance and Best Practice
• Ensures that the standards of the Merchants Quality Management Framework are applied and managed effectively within the Business and in alignment to best practice as governed by the COE
• Implement and conduct controls and perform regular checks to ensure validity and reliability of results (including QA moderation)
• Monitors the activities of the customer experience team to ensure compliance with acceptable standards of customer service

Escalations
• Ensures disputes and complaints are effectively investigated, managed and tracked
• Identifies and escalates risks and quality issues to resolve them as efficiently as possible.

CX Reporting
• Review and analyze customer experience feedback and performance metrics, such as customer
satisfaction and NPS, identify training and other improvement opportunities and report on insights
and recommendations.
• Develops and delivers reports to meet CX, the Business Unit and Client requirements and timelines
• Identifies, establishes and conducts reporting and analysis on Business interventions, using
methodology in line with the COE and Merchants best practices, showcasing pre- and postassessment methodologies and ROI models.
• Track progress made in the implementation of recommended and actions.

• People Management
  • Leadership
  • Leads by example in living the values of the organisation
  • Ensures the department is fully equipped to handle the work load and distribute work flow
  • Coaches to ensure a full understanding of consequences of errors
  • Creates an environment that fosters team work and co-operation amongst team members
  • Creates awareness of Merchants strategic objectives and their alignment to the department and company objectives
  • Communicates effectively, building and maintaining relationships
  • Ensures consistent compliance to company policies and procedures, corporate governance and relevant legislation
  • Attraction & Selection
  • Ensures appropriate staffing and action accordingly
  • Identifies need for creation of position and forward recommendation to direct manager and HR
  • Ensures appointments are in line with EE targets / strategy
  • Selects and places candidates in terms of agreed recruitment and selection process
  • Retention
  • Develops and empowers people, recognizing and rewarding value-added performance
  • Training and Development
  • Continually strives to up-skill and motivate staff through effective leadership, mentoring,
  coaching, performance improvement and the creation and implementation of individual development plans
  • Monitors implementation of training needs as per individual development plans
  • Career Pathing and Succession Planning
  • Identifies, manages and develops talent
  • Performance Management
  • Sets direct reports quantitative and qualitative performance objectives and ensure individual
  performance objectives are in place and reviewed to meet organisational and individual needs
  • Ensures bi-annual performance reviews take place with direct reports, identifies poor performance
  and takes corrective action
  
  
  Knowledge
  
  
• Minimum 4 years CX experience
  
• Experience of Training environment
• Experience of QA 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?

What you will be doing;

This position is responsible for the entire planning cycle and the management of a team of Schedulers, Real Time Administrators (RTA) and the overall contractual delivery related to the Workforce Management team.


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
• Ensures that all Human Resources policies and procedures are observed

Workforce Planning
• Reviews forecasted call volumes, average handling time and shrinkage to calculate the required headcount figures
• Ensures that workforce’s schedulers complete Agent schedules within agreed timeframes and in line with call volume, average handling time and shrinkage forecasts
• Monitors Real Time Administration team to ensure that adherence to schedule is managed by them in line with operational processes
• Assesses forecasting accuracy and put processes in place to optimise forecasting accuracy
• Identifies and highlights trends impacting call delivery, and ensures remedial plans are incorporated into planning
• Optimises headcount requirements to reduce cost without impacting operational delivery
• Analyses schedules and makes recommendations for improvement, including impact on budget
• Analyses impact of contractual changes on schedules and provides management with
information required to make decisions

Reporting and standardisation
• Provides all management reports as required by the business
• Meets regularly with other WFM managers to agree standard WFM and reporting processes and implement them on the operation


Knowledge
• Matric or equivalent
• At least 2 years workforce management experience, including people         management experience
• Computer literate (Excel– intermediate)

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