Customer Sales Advisor - Stroud, United Kingdom - Great Western Railway

Great Western Railway

Verified Company

Stroud, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Part time

Description

Who are we?
GWR is the proud custodian of Brunel's railway - one of the most prestigious networks in the world. We have some of the newest trains in the country and exciting plans to extend our services.

With more than one hundred million passenger journeys each year, we carry people to over 275 stations in the South West, from Cornwall and South Wales to London, passing through beautiful country and some of the UK's top tourist destinations.

We are transforming the way people think about train travel, empowering our team of over 6,000 people from all different backgrounds to make it a great experience for our customers.

Together, we will revalue rail as a very special way to travel - relaxing, fast, efficient, friendly and fun.

About the team?
Stroud is a beautiful station and you'll be part of the station team who look after this historic station.

Stroud has incredible links with the local community and you will play a key role is helping to maintain and nurture our existing community links.

About the job?

You will confidently and impartially sell the full range of tickets and services, ensuring that customer requirements are met and exceeded, provide information and assistance to customers and ensure that the station environment is kept to a high standard.

This is a part time role, details of working hours can be found below.

Your main responsibilities will be:

Being dedicated to our customer's needs
Accurately and impartially selling the full range of products and services to our customers in a friendly, professional and efficient manner
Maximising opportunities for increased sales by adopting selling techniques and offering enhanced products to customers
Carrying out routine maintenance and cleaning of ticket machines and IT equipment
Accurately completing all accountancy and other associated documentation

You'll need to be:

Able to deliver extraordinary front line customer service
Able to understand customer requirements and expectations
A selfstarter with a can do attitude
Confident when decisionmaking
Calm yet directive
Able to work to strict procedures

As a minimum you'll need to have:

The ability to work as part of a team or independently
Evidence of numerical ability
Attention to detail
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Live within 1 hour of Stroud Station

Working Pattern?
This role is part time with a set roster covering afternoons 27.5hrs per week.

This role has a set working pattern: Monday-Friday: 12:50hrs-18:20hrs.

A requirement to work 1 in 3 Sundays is included in addition to your working hours - Sunday hours will vary.

Please note:
This role requires lone working.

The Reward?

As well as a great team environment and comprehensive training, all GWR colleagues enjoy a range of benefits including on-going development, defined benefit pension scheme, free rail travel across the GWR network for you and your family, company-sponsored health care plan, discounted shopping and gym membership and an employee assistance programme.

We value our differences such as age, gender, LGBTQIA, ethnicity, religion and disability. We maintain zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice towards our colleagues, customers, and future talent.

We celebrate and encourage diversity of thought, progressive ways of working and seeing all our colleagues grow and thrive.

We review all roles and job descriptions to ensure they are accessible and, where possible, we support and provide flexible working options; we recommend that you refer to each vacancy description for further details.