The Opportunity
Kite Packaging have a brilliant opportunity for a Customer Service Representative to join their Customer Service team in Coventry. Kite Packaging was founded in 2001 with a unique vision and a philosophy of employee-ownership. We were a true greenfield start up and have grown quickly to be the 2nd largest packaging distributor in the UK. In the past year Kite has been awarded ‘Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies in the Midlands’ and ‘The Sunday Times Track 100 Fastest Profit Growth in the UK’.
Our growth has consistently been the best in our sector, and we are continually investing in our business and our greatest asset is our ‘people’. Turnover in 2023 was £168m and our growth continues to accelerate.
www.kitepackaging.co.uk is the Ecommerce website for Kite Packaging – a major national distributor of packaging products via a carrier network. Due to the number of orders / items we currently despatch on a daily basis, we are taking a lot of inbound enquiries via the phone, email and live chat in reference to deliveries, orders and general queries.
Key Skills and Essential Experience:
The successful candidate will have at least 2 years experience working in an office based customer service role.
The successful candidate will also have the following skills:

• Clear and professional telephone manner
• Experience of dealing and handling a high level of calls and queries
• Possess excellent listening and problem solving skills
• Strong administration and organisational skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent delivery focus under pressure and used to working to deadlines
• Comfortable working with different systems and juggling multiple tasks
• Experience in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
• Willing to go the extra mile

What you’ll get:

• Excellent competitive salary
• Bonus Scheme (upon completion of probation)
• Good work life balance. 8:30am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday
• Holidays 20 days, rising to 25 after 5 years of service
• After 6 months a range of benefits: life insurance, pension, cycle to work scheme and an optional healthcare scheme
• The option to become a shareholder in the business after 6 months employment

Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £25,451.00 per year
Additional pay:

• Bonus scheme

Benefits:

• Company pension
• On-site parking
• Referral programme

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Customer service: 2 years (required)
• Microsoft Office: 2 years (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Location:

• Coventry (required)

Work Location: In person
Reference ID: Customer Service Rep - Coventry