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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

Additional Requirements

• International client experience

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 organising
• 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 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 organising
• 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 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 organising
• 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

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 is must

Experience in Quality environment bonus

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

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.

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 position is to monitor schedule adherence, identify schedule inefficiencies and flag operational service level risks.

1. Adherence Monitoring

• Monitors daily absenteeism.
• Monitors non-adherence and communicates out-of-line situations
• Identifies issues that may impact the site’s ability to meet service levels in real time
• Reviews performance across skill sets and recommends real time changes that will improve site performance

2. Reporting and administration

• Accurately captures exceptions and real time reporting
• Produces accurate daily Workforce Management performance reports to various levels of management covering all areas of the business
• Produces daily and weekly Absenteeism Reports
• Adjusts real-time schedule to accommodate extra-time as governed by scheduling process

Requirements

• Matric or equivalent
• 2 years Agent experience
• Understanding of ACD reporting
• MS Excel – intermediate

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