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Customer Service Analyst (GMS)
England Rugby
The Rugby Football Union is the national governing body for grassroots and elite rugby in England. Its purpose is to encourage rugby, and its values, to flourish across England.
Job Posted- 26 Nov 2024
Status- Full Time
Location- England
Closing date- 10 Dec 2024
The Role:
To work within the central customer services team, reporting to the Customer Service Specialist (Game Management System), and supporting the wider customer services team by delivering high service and communication standards across the department and specifically within the Game Management System workstream.
This is fast paced, high profile environment, which requires a positive and resilient team player who is able to build rapport with our service users, resolving all queries and concerns to a high standard.
Some Key Responsibilities Include:
- Logging incidents and service requests into the RFU IT service management tool.
- Setting the correct priority and severity to all requests.
- Logging, responding to and managing customer requests for the externally facing Game Management System all the way to resolution.
- Assist in pre-release testing, providing feedback on success criteria for our externally facing services and products.
- Provide post-release support where necessary to external users. Assigning and escalating incidents and service requests to 2nd/3rd support team members and third parties.
- Following up on open incidents/service requests with support teams and third parties via email, phone and face-to-face methods.
- Providing regular feedback to users on the status of their issues including third party escalations.
- Assisting in maintaining the GMS knowledgebase with detailed customer-facing documentation to a high standard, ensuring an increasing portion of tickets are resolved using the KB.
- Ensuring all incidents and service requests adhere to SLAs and are recorded accurately against KPIs.
- Ensuring all completed tickets are closed to the satisfaction of the requestor.
- Stay up to date with current thinking and best practice, proposing recommendations on improvements we can make, then being pivotal in the implementation element.
- Supporting the wider customer services team as overflow as required, e.g. Ticketing.
- Supporting on the lead up and delivery of Event Days as required across the wider Customer Service team.
- Actively collaborate with colleagues to contribute to the development and delivery of the current strategic, business and operational plans.
- Act as an ambassador for, and promote the best interests of the RFU, including the promotion of our culture and core values – This Rose Means Everyone: Put The Team First, Shape The Future, Respect Each Other.
QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
The skills and attributes outlined in this description are not exhaustive and we welcome candidates who can bring different relevant experiences to the role.
Essential:
- Credible experience in customer service and/or service desk, managing complex situations and helping to resolve any issues.
- Experience of working on a service desk, specifically around prioritisation.
- IT service management awareness.
- Experience managing complex accounts and clients offering bespoke service.
- Effective communication skills.
- Experience in working in a fast-paced environment.
- Customer service driven with an orientation towards serving the needs of others, providing a consistent, high-quality service at all times.
- Excellent organisational skills, able to apply these to personal time management, office systems and processes.
- Confident in decision making in the absence of a manager.
- Ability to establish positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Dynamic and flexible approach to a varying workload.
- Committed to embodying the ethos our culture by using our three core values – Put The Team First, Shape The Future, Respect Each Other – to guide your day-to-day decisions, actions and interactions.
- Committed to actively contributing and building an inclusive culture in your role and day to day behaviours.
Desirable:
- Experience working with the RFU’s Game Management System.
- ITIL Foundation level.
- Experience working with Office 365 particularly Skype for Business, SharePoint & OneDrive.
- Experience working with JIRA.
- Experience working on a service management tool e.g. ServiceNow, Freshservice.
- Working knowledge of Ticketing systems, particularly XR/Tixserve and GMS.
- Relevant experience of the rugby environment/strong practical understanding of the rugby or sporting landscape in England.
- Interest in IT service operations and delivery.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential. If there is anything we could do to support you through your application or to provide the best environment for your interviews, including assistance or adjustment, please reach out to [email protected].
- During your application, we will ask questions about your identity. This information is considered highly confidential and will not be seen by hiring managers. You can find out more about why we ask these questions here.
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