Live Customer Support Team Lead (North West) at Moniepoint Incorporated - Remote

Moniepoint Incorporated is a global business payments and banking platform and recently became QED Investors’ first investment in Africa. We are the partner of choice for over 600,000 businesses of all sizes, powering the dreams of SMBs and providing them with equal access to the tools they need to grow and scale.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Live Customer Support Team Lead  

Location: Kano (Remote)
Employment Type: Full time 

Job Summary

• To build strong relationships with customers and ensure they are optimizing a product or service to receive the highest ROI.
• To be successful, they need to know the ins and outs of a product or service to properly educate customers and communicate effectively with a variety of personalities and technical backgrounds.
• As managers, they play a major role in hiring, training, and mentoring the customer success team.
• They are also in charge of implementing policies with internal teams to establish a level of quality customer service that exceeds their expectations, especially for anyone who has direct contact with customers.

Responsibilities

• Have a good understanding of the organization's products
• Build relationships with customers, help them with issues, and continually delight them with a positive, customer-centric attitude.
• Provide proactive strategy with their assigned customer accounts
• Develop and share best practices with team members to continually improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of our processes
• As the Live Customer Support team lead, you'll be responsible for line management of several Customer Support Officers. This will include mentoring and coaching those individuals through situations they may encounter with their customers, and developing them such that they, in turn, become Senior Customer Success Managers, able to work with our biggest or most complex customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 5 years of experience in a customer-facing role within a Fintech or a similar company, such as Customer Success, Customer Support, or Account Management
• Previous experience in a team leadership or supervisory role
• Possess strong phone, written, and verbal communication skills with excellent presentation skills
• Confident, high energy, self-motivated, and a true team player
• Experience working with senior and executive-level customer contacts
• Demonstrated ability and desire to work and excel in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent multitasking and project management skills
• Well-organized, with high attention to detail and the ability to prioritize
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Proficiency in using customer support software and tools
• Proactivity
• Ability to handle escalated situations
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Fluent in Hausa
• Has experience in leading a team
• Must reside in any of these states - Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, Jigawa, Sokoto, and Zamfara

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.