About the Role
Join Initial Washroom Hygiene at the Croydon branch as a Service Team Leader within the Operations and Management Graduate Program. This role offers a dynamic career path in a FTSE100 company, focusing on managing a team, ensuring key performance indicators are met, and contributing to operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of Customer Delivery Representatives.
- Ensure delivery of Key KPIs, including Health and Safety, State of Service, Vehicle Maintenance, and Productivity.
- Plan weekly routes to maximize customer facing time and minimize driving time.
- Conduct daily debriefings of direct reports to ensure planned works are completed and re-plan as necessary.
- Provide clarity on business expectations for customer service for drivers.
- Assist the service management team with customer service requests and related information.
- Coordinate customer service requests and other related information to ensure customer service expectations are achieved.
- Work with the Service Centre Manager, Service Manager, and Other Service Team Leaders to deliver company objectives.
- Manage performance to ensure CDRs are working contracted hours and fulfilling daily calls.
- Address performance issues with direct reports.
- Contribute to route solutions for new customer service requirements.
- Identify sub-standard customer service, route deficiencies, or CDR performance issues.
- Provide customer service data from the CDR to the service centre management team.
- Communicate business requirements to the CDRs, ensuring clarity on objectives and tasks.
- Plan time to ensure the service operation runs efficiently.
- Ensure all CDRs operate in an efficient and effective manner.
- Support and coordinate CDR resources.
- Develop and manage CDRs based at the Service Centre.
- Pro-actively review CDR and vehicle requirements for effective and efficient resource utilization.
- Adhere to Company Health and Safety and environmental policies and obligations.
- Participate in Graduate Development Days and project work.
- Gain exposure to other parts of the business.
- Take part in the Aspiring Development Program.
Requirements
- A minimum 2.2 degree in BSc/BA in any subject (business-related, transport, logistics, supply chain or management disciplines preferred but not necessary).
- A full UK driving licence or be working towards this.
- Target-driven, ambitious and self-motivated.
- Comfortable working out in the field dealing with customers face-to-face.
- Desire to work with people and provide excellent customer service.
- A desire to work hard and have fun.
Skills
- Team Management
- Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Management
- Route Planning
- Customer Service
- Performance Management
- Communication
- Organization
- Health & Safety Compliance
- Environmental Policy Adherence
Location
- Croydon
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Monday to Friday (40 hr week)
Experience Level
- Graduate
Education Level
- Minimum 2.2 degree in BSc/BA
Salary/Compensations
- £31,154 per annum (basic salary)
- £31,825 per annum (expected OTE)
Benefits
- Career progression
- Mobile phone
- Laptop
- Company discount scheme
- Industry-leading training
- Regular bonus and commission schemes
- Salary grading system linked to performance
- Opportunity to contribute to a Private Healthcare scheme
- Company pension scheme
- RI Rewards (discounts and cashback offers)
- Overtime opportunities
- Leads Commission scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Long service recognition (extra five days of annual leave after five years)
- Refer a Friend bonus (up to £1,000)
About the Company
- Rentokil Initial (FTSE100) is one of the largest business services companies in the world, operating in over 90 countries.
- Provides services that protect people and enhance lives.
- Rentokil is the world’s leading commercial pest control and hygiene provider.
- Initial is the world’s leading commercial hygiene services provider.
- Ambius is the world’s leading provider of plants and scenting.
- Focuses on the Right People, doing the Right Things, and in the Right Way.
- Invests in training and developing colleagues.
- Looking for talented and driven people to join the Rentokil Initial Family.
Equal Opportunity
- Rentokil Initial are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse working environment.
