Customer Service Team Leader

Newcastle-Under-Lyme, England, United Kingdom

12/20/2024

Job title: Customer Service Team Leader

Location: Newcastle under Lyme

Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week, between 06:30-00:30 Monday-Sunday

Starting salary: £34,000, plus an annual bonus of up to 10%!

Other benefits: 35% hourly uplift for unsociable hours, annual bonus, 25 days plus bank holiday allowance, private medical care, enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave pay, gym allowance, Smart Spending discounts, paid volunteer days, home office allowance, a contributory pension plan and many more!

Who we are

Bally’s Interactive is the digital arm of one of the world’s leading entertainment providers, Bally’s Corporation, with tens of millions of players across the globe and big plans always in the works. Our brands and sites include market movers and shakers like SportsCaller, Vera&John, Virgin Casino, Jackpotjoy and many more. We make our mark by embracing the diversity of our global team, challenging ourselves, and striving to make a difference for our players.

Well, what about the team?

The Customer Operations team provides frontline support across our brands here at Bally's Interactive, we're passionate about building caring and long-lasting relationships with everyone from brand-new players to seasoned experts. In our day-to-day mission, we work closely with teams such as Risk, Responsible Gambling, and Retention, to help the company keep its finger on the pulse of player needs.

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Team Leader to lead and motivate a team of Customer Support Advisors and Chat Hosts. With a key focus on people management and operational excellence, you will be responsible for the success of your team and wider department, ensuring team members are supported and achieving both business and personal goals, managing the day to day running of the call centre operation and promoting the company values and DNA in all you do.

So, what will you be doing?

• Managing the operation and supporting development of your direct reports. Conducting all aspects of people management from setting targets, reviewing and analysing performance, conducting 121s and supporting recruitment within your team.
• Empowering your team to provide a best-in-class experience by embedding quality and service standards. Analysing and resolving deficiencies, identifying trends, and recommending continuous improvements to the service offered to our players.
• Understanding and ensuring staff are compliant with local, company, and UKGC policies and procedures.
• Optimizing work processes and exploring effective and efficient ways of working, with a continuous focus on performance. Making sense of complex, high quantity information to effectively solve issues or gaps within the department.
• Recognising key motivators in the working environment. Supporting your teams personal development to meet both employees' career goals and business objectives.
• Ensuring employees experience a working environment where they can voice questions or suggestions for open discussion. Provide support and coaching, and treat all team members fairly, equally and with respect.
• Working collaboratively with Operations Manager and Key Stakeholders, build relationships and drive our culture amongst your team.
  
  

And what are we looking for?

• Have experience managing a team in a fast-paced contact centre environment.
• Possess experience in all aspects of people management including conducting 121s and coaching sessions, setting and managing targets, disciplinary and absence management.
• Possess excellent influencing and leadership skills to achieve team and departmental objectives.
• Be action oriented. Take on new opportunities and challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Be an effective communicator. Develop and deliver multi-mode communication that conveys a transparent message to suit the audience needs. Be able to interact inclusively and effectively across all levels.
• Possess the ability to multitask and prioritise. Juggling multiple tasks in parallel, often with changing requirements and priorities.
• Able to create a unique working style that engages the team and promotes a positive working culture.
• Be creative and think outside the box. Possess a willingness to innovate and explore new ideas.
  
  

This is what you'll get

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holiday allowance
• Annual bonus of up to 10%
• Pension plan
• Health insurance
• Company share scheme
• Volunteering days
• Home office allowance
• Wellness or Gym allowance
  
  

DNA / Values

At Bally’s Interactive, we are driven by a set of core values that we like to call our DNA. We strive to embody our DNA and keep them at the heart of everything we do!

We are Always Ready to embrace change, adapt, and do what it takes to delight our customers. We believe that You Make the Difference, which is what gives our players the best experience and keeps them coming back. We are All One Team, looking out for each other, respecting diversity while connecting through a common purpose. Our teams are Learning Every Day by showing constant curiosity and the drive to learn from successes, mistakes, new experiences, and the people around us. At Bally’s we Love to Lead by thinking differently, seeking innovation, and always looking for ways to raise our game.

Equal Opportunities

At Bally’s Interactive, we are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and working conditions. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are important to us, and we encourage a culture where everyone can be themselves at work. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success, this is our superpower.

We do not discriminate against employees or job applicants on the basis of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, age, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, political opinion or disability.