INTRODUCTION
A company situated in Pretoria is seeking a Hearing Expert with 1-3 years of experience to join
their team.
JOB PURPOSEHearing experts will provide high-quality counselling and remote care to a hearing care programme being provisioned to service the market in the United States. They will ensure that clients understand the effects of hearing loss, and counsel them through the options available to them in terms of hearing care. Once a client of the Hearing Aid company, the client will be assisted remotely via video and voice calls, with the Hearing Expert troubleshooting issues with hearing aids remotely and making suggested changes and tweaks to the settings and functioning of the hearing aids for the client.
Requirements
Minimum education (essential):
B. Communication Pathology in Audiology
Minimum Education (desirable)
M. Communication Pathology in Audiology
Minimum Applicable Experience (years)
1-3 years
Required Nature Of Experience
- Sale and fitment of hearing aids
- Troubleshooting regarding hearing aid client experience
- Fine-tuning of hearing aid settings
- Customer relations and relationship management
- Technical support (hearing aids and apps connected to hearing aids)
- Administration and client record management
- Working within a digital environment
- Telephonic sales experience and high conversion rates
- Excellent English skills
- Conflict management
- Excellent communication ability and oratorship
- Working in a call centre or in sales
- CRM system (Salesforce in particular) experience
- Ease of use with video calling
- Cold Calling experience
- Working hours from 15:00 - 02:00
- Working shifts, four days per week
- Monday to Friday
Essential Competencies
- Examining Information
- Articulating Information
- Making Decisions
- Resolving Conflict
- Thinking Positively
- Inviting Feedback
- Understanding People
- Valuing Individuals
- Developing Expertise
- Adopting Practical Approaches
- Interacting with People
- Establishing Rapport
- Convincing People
- Showing Composure
- Checking Things
- Following Procedures
- Managing Tasks
- Upholding Standards
- Taking Action
- Seizing Opportunities
Client Support and Relationship Management 50%
- Solve problems for end users to get the products working.
- Solve problems as effectively and efficiently as possible in reducing the time spent with each query.
- Manage the ticketing system.
- Escalate queries with discretion.
- Respond to queries and follow up with feedback.
- Conduct business in a professional manner when communicating and interacting with clients to ensure client satisfaction.
- Maintain a high customer effort score by going above and beyond for customers.
- Complete assigned CRM tasks for follow-ups and support calls to clients.
- Conduct client check-in calls and follow-up surveys.
- Interpret client input and feedback into an improved service in terms of hearing aid settings.
- Make accurate adjustments to hearing devices, using remote support.
- Keep client interaction logs up to date on Salesforce.
- Report on campaigns (feedback to clients).
- Report to and work with other client relationship managers in the Contact Centre to ensure client satisfaction.
- Maintain the ticketing system.
- Ensure other required documents, reports and email accounts are up to date and accurate.
- Assist clients with questions about hearing loss and hearing aid benefits.
- Handle escalated incoming calls regarding services and technologies offered.
- Generate and secure potential revenue by:
Cold calling new prospective clients;
Following up on calls, messages and tasks.
Following up on supplied leads.
- Achieve set revenue goals and targets.
- Upsell additional products to existing (and potential) clients.
- Maintain absolute customer confidentiality and protection of personal information.
- Maintain client records in accordance with the procedure
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