Job Description
Job Title: Customer Service Consultant
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Start date: March 24th 2025
Working hours Monday- Friday 37.5 hours per week covering from 8am-6pm No weekend or evening work
Fantastic industry leading benefits: Private Healthcare, Market leading pension,Training & Development opportunities.
Salary & Benefits: We offer a base salary of up to £25,000 dependant on your experience. Additional to this we offer great benefits which include: 28 days holiday + bank holidays (with the option to buy and sell), annual bonus and salary reviews, discounts, a market leading pension package, with the opportunity to tailor benefits to suit your preferences.
We are seeking friendly and customer-orientated individuals to join our team of Customer Service Consultants. In this role you will have the opportunity to work with a variety of internal and external customers, including Financial Advisors and Royal London Group Members. This is a pivotal position within our organisation, offering the chance to make a real impact. With your exceptional communication skills and attention to detail, you will help to build strong relationships with our customers, you will be their first point of contact, dealing with inbound and outbound enquiries, resolving any queries through to completion and keeping the adviser/customer up to date.
About the role
- Provide a professional and superior experience for every customer.
- Manage customer queries via inbound/outbound calls as well as responding to email and written correspondence.
- Prioritise and respond to customer queries in a timely fashion, detailing requirement for the fulfilment of their request and managing their expectations.
- Accurately log all queries and maintain customer data to ensure accuracy of content and that we meet regulatory standards.
- Work as part of a wider team to ensure best practises and advice is consistently given to customers, meeting their needs, and supporting the Royal London Group purpose.
About you
- Experience in a customer service role via telephone or face to face is essential.
- High level of customer care, always putting the customers’ needs at the heart of the decisions you make.
- Polite, professional phone manner with the ability to communicate in a clear, confident, and sincere tone.
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment with the ability to manage and prioritise multiple queries and processes simultaneously.
- Working Knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook is required.
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Royal London is a purpose-driven mutual. Our Purpose, ‘Protecting today, investing in tomorrow. Together we are mutually responsible’, defines the impact we want to have. It shapes what we do on behalf of our members and customers, financial advisers, our colleagues and the communities in which we operate. Our People Promise is our collective commitment that our workplace will be inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling where all colleagues can thrive and experience a sense of belonging. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
Our inclusive values and people promise are core to who we are and how we work. It’s good for our people, and good for our customers too, because with an inclusive workplace and a diverse workforce we will reflect our members, customers and communities to deliver the best outcomes.
We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across our organisation. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected– whatever their background.
Workplace Initiatives
Program for parents returning to work after Parental Leave? |
No |
Leadership development programmes? |
Yes |
Mentoring programmes? |
Yes |
Coaching programmes? |
Yes |
Employee-led diversity networks? |
Yes |
Internal women’s networking groups? |
Yes |
Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage? |
Yes |
No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary: |
26 weeks (followed by 13 weeks half pay) |
Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary: |
4 weeks |
Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
Gender pay gap reporting information 2022: |
|
Mean pay gap: |
35.3% |
Median pay gap: |
33.9% |
Mean bonus gap: |
70.4% |
Median bonus gap: |
48.5% |
Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of women in leadership? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership? |
No |
Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index? |
No |
Graduate Programmes
We have a number of graduate programmes designed to deliver technical experts and future leaders.
Royal London Career Confidence programme
Our hybrid programme focuses on equipping you to feel empowered in your career and supported to explore new opportunities as they arise.
Apprenticeships
We offer a wide range of Apprenticeships that are targeted at both new joiners and existing colleagues.
Inclusion
We promote an inclusive culture at Royal London and have a range of inclusion networks for our colleagues to get involved with.
Our Women's Network is a community that celebrates and supports its members, helps everyone to learn more and inspires all of us to aim higher. Confidence and development are strong themes here and our events focus on three key areas of team working, finance, and wellbeing. There are two sub-groups to the Women’s Network – Women in Technology and our Periods and Menopause Group – focused on actions such as supporting over 20 new Periods and Menopause champions and launching guidance and training for leaders.