Sales Support Specialist

**Job Requisition and Specialist Recruiter details**
- Req: 140528
- Role: Sales Support Specialist
- Specialist Recruiter: Lebohang Monate

**Job Family and Cluster**
- Sales And Services
- CIB

**Career Stream**
- Sales

**Leadership Pipeline**
- Manage Self: Professional

**FAIS Affected**
- FAIS Affected - Yes

**Job Purpose**
- To be the direct contact between the external customer and Nedbank to build and maintain relationships according to CIB CSD and TS customer, sales, support and digitisation strategy. Provide operational and client service to internal stakeholders and the CIB client to best meet their needs across the end-to-end products, channels and solutions life cycle in line with Nedbank's client service strategy. Provide quality and accurate business administrative services to internal and external stakeholders enabling CIB CSD and Nedbank to achieve its business goals. Be part of the retention strategy of Nedbank CIB by ensuring exceptional client service is provided to enhance the client's experience, aligning to the TS and CSD CIB client value propositions.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide further service offerings, beyond the current product suite to grow the client base and product utilisation across Nedbank Clients
- Understand the assigned sector client needs, touchpoints and trends to provide a world class support service.
- Support and resolve client issues and problems as they occur by investigating, using remote tools to better understand the issue and recommending value-adding solutions to solve the case at first call resolution level.
- Act as a trusted partner to achieve better client service and business results by exceeding service level requirements.
- Assist clients with both onboarding and enablement digital self-service recommendations to drive the Digital First strategy of Nedbank thereby enhancing the client’s online experience.
- Ensure that complaints handling and ad-hoc request logging through to other areas within the Nedbank Group are effectively dealt with to close the loop back to the client.
- Meet and exceed internal and external client needs by timeously responding and addressing queries within the Service Level Agreement (SLA).
- Communicate daily and consistently as per client agreement to ensure service standards are adhered to and that clients are retained.
- Deliver a world class service
- Ensure that escalated queries are accompanied with adequate information (i.e. screenshots, time stamps, etc.) obtained from remote sessions held (where relevant) and that the correct DTs and FAQs were referenced to attempt first call resolution.
- Build relationships to enable the effective negotiation with relevant stakeholders on behalf of the client to meet the client’s requirements in a mutually beneficial way.
- Collaborate and build effective networks across Nedbank to address the client need.
- Support TS Sales in all escalated client servicing related issues.
- Teamwork and collaboration - Building relationships with TS Service Support Specialists and Principles, Coverage Bankers and Associates.
- Challenge the status quo to drive continuous improvement.
- Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in field of expertise by identifying training courses and career progression opportunities for self with input from management.
- Focus on reducing the need to escalate queries by continuously upskilling oneself and driving to address client issues on first call resolution level.

**Essential Qualifications - NQF Level**
- Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
- Preferred Qualification
- Bachelors degree in business or equivalent qualfication

Minimum Experience Level
- 1 - 3 years’ experience in a similar or related client service environment

**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Communication Strategies
- Data analysis
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Nedbank policies and procedures
- Principles of financial management
- Principles of project management
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Relevant software and systems knowledge
- Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
- Credit and risk Knowledge
- Behavioural Competencies
- Building Partnerships
- Earning Trust
- Energy
- Facilitating Change
- Innovation
- Work Standards
- Planning and Organizing
- Customer Focus
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566_