Customer Support Team Lead providing training, coaching, and support for the Sales Support team. Ensuring exceptional customer experience and compliance with company standards at Trail Appliances.
Responsibilities
Provide day-to-day leadership, guidance, and floor support to team members, ensuring questions and issues are resolved promptly to maintain productivity and service levels.
Conduct regular team huddles, and coaching sessions to communicate priorities, reinforce expectations, and drive accountability.
Monitor individual and team performance against key performance indicators (KPIs), service level agreements (SLAs), quality standards, and productivity targets as assigned by management.
Participate in delivering onboarding and ongoing training programs to ensure employees have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to perform their roles effectively.
Promote compliance with company policies, procedures, and service standards while reinforcing a culture of accountability and customer excellence.
Investigate customer issues by coordinating with Sales, Operations, Logistics, Warehouse, Delivery, Finance, and other departments to achieve effective resolutions.
Manage customer recovery situations and service failures by implementing appropriate solutions that protect the customer experience and company reputation.
Support the team in resolving order management issues, delivery concerns, product availability challenges, and system-related exceptions.
Oversee daily workflow and operational priorities to ensure service levels, response times, and departmental objectives are consistently achieved.
Monitor operational dashboards and queues to ensure deadlines and customer commitments are met.
Ensure administrative tasks, documentation, and system updates are completed accurately and within established timelines.
Participate in continuous improvement initiatives by providing operational feedback and recommending best practices.
Build strong working relationships with Sales, Logistics, Warehouse, Delivery, and other internal departments to support seamless customer experiences.
Support the Supervisor with the day-to-day operation of the department, ensuring business priorities are effectively managed in their absence.
Assist with workforce planning, scheduling, workload balancing, and operational decision-making to achieve departmental goals.
Perform additional leadership or operational responsibilities as assigned to support departmental and organizational success.
Assist leadership in implementing operational initiatives, process improvements, organizational change management activities and other activities.
Requirements
Previous experience in customer service, administrative, training or team lead role.
Experience providing on-the-job coaching, classroom instruction or online training required for the role.
Strong customer service focus with the ability to manage escalated situations professionally.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Strong time management and organizational skills.
Detail oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Strong systems and process capabilities.
Experience analyzing performance data and applying findings in a constructive way.
Skilled in using CRM and order management systems.
Ability to quickly understand and explain processes and workflows.
Proven ability to build strong relationships with clients, team members, leaders and business partners.
Strong leadership skills, including collaboration, communication, decision making and creative problem-solving.
Motivated and self-sufficient, with the ability to work well under pressure and move forward with confidence.
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office.
Ability to establish priorities, work independently and support a high-volume team environment.
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