Overview
Key Accountabilities
Functional
Complete day to day customer service related operational tasks to ensure delivery meets customer expectations and is consistent with set process performance indicators, applicable service level agreements and the customer service functions core values.
Leverage deep understanding of specific key account customers, processes / systems and act as an issue point of contact for any verbal or written form of enquiries from external customers and consumers and internal customers from the BP Business and third parties. These customers will include retail fuelling sites, branded and unbranded customers, commercial and strategic accounts and terminals.
Interact with customers in a professional, friendly and efficient manner and raise concerns about meeting service levels or deadlines.
Proactively resolve Key Account customer issues (working with other teams as appropriate):
Take ownership and resolve raised verbal and written customer issues.
Raise activities that are not actioned by assignees.
Provide customer service via the internet, phone, fax and email to support activities including:
Account set-up, allocation and delivery issues.
Order processing and order fulfilment.
Sales order tracking.
Supervise supply outages and react accordingly for incoming and existing orders.
Retail marketing programme information, policy and product fulfilment.
Retail site experience complaints, fuel quality claims, site locator etc.
Complaint resolution, identification and management of complaint root causes.
Log, assign and supervise progress of queries and customer requests from receipt to completion ensuring data is accurately entered and maintained in all customer service and data collection systems.
Support GBS activities through immediate triage, partner concern (high risk customer issues – financial, legal, reputation), resolution or logging and forwarding of customer inquiries / issues.
Service Management & Continuous Improvement
Manage and maintain customer expectations, referencing pre-established service level agreements where applicable.
Make recommendations on existing knowledge base documents and identify knowledge gaps.
Build and maintain strong relationships with both the customer and internal business partn6ers through the provision of timely, accurate and high quality service.
Highlight process gaps and inefficiencies; proactively seek solutions to increase productivity and / or level of service provided.
Perform user acceptance testing in service centre technology and ERP systems to help ensure effective enhancement execution.
Requirements
Educated to A Level standard or equivalent
C1 level of German language knowledge
Previous experience customer service skills in a telephone environment and or customer services environment preferred, ideally dealing with Key Account Customers
Must demonstrate a strong understanding of customers’ needs / behaviours
Excellent written/oral communication skills and ability to build effective working relationships
Strong time management and organisation skills
Strong problem solving skills
Highly motivated
Experience using SAP and/or Siebel and MS Office application
This position is a hybrid of office/remote working
About bp Finance Business & Technology (FBT)
Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably in is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.
