Client Service Escalation Specialist, CoStar - London

Client Service Escalation Specialist, CoStar - London Company Overview

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world's real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We've continually refined, transformed, and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation.

Responsibilities

• Be the customer's (external & internal) point of contact for any escalated questions related to our products, research, billing, etc.
• Answer incoming calls; diagnose technical and application calls from customers, sales and other departments ensuring the customer's needs have fully been resolved.
• Second tier of support for other departments.
• Take escalated calls and provide consultation on policies and procedures as well as technical support for CoStar products and applications.
• Provide other departments direct feedback after case resolution.
• Take ownership of cases until fully resolved to ensure the customer's experience is world class.
• Use negotiation and outstanding customer service to handle escalated calls from internal and external customers.
• Provide product knowledge and skills training on a one to one basis with customers and/or other departments.
• Support sales colleagues to ensure the world class standard of customer service is maintained.
• Assist customers with usage of application including problem solving application and network related issues and running complimentary standard reports when customers need them and are unable to access our program(s) for technical reasons.
• Track and coordinate escalated customer issues which require management response, ensuring follow up and all concerns for possible trending analysis.
• Proactively recognise and alert others to trends impacting customer service.
• Enter actions for all customer contact in CRM including notes detailed enough that subsequent users can track your actions.
• Diagnose and resolve software program problems with malfunctioning electromechanical equipment or software applications and recommend corrective action.
• Research, replicate, perform root cause analysis, and provide feedback for product issues reported by customers.
• Research and communicate new solutions based on client needs / requests.
• Provide exhaustive and complete troubleshooting.
• Promote teamwork and cooperative effort.

Qualifications

• French language skills (written and spoken) to business/professional level.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience in customer service, building rapport over the telephone and overcoming objections.
• Knowledge of commercial real estate preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal skills (Communication, Conflict Resolution, Negotiation, etc.) when dealing with internal and/or external audiences at all levels of management.
• Ability to deliver results while working to deadlines under pressure.
• Ability to plan and organise workload in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing situations at a high growth company.

Benefits

Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. As well as having an outstanding working environment based in iconic buildings the Shard and Blue Fin or one of our key UK wide hubs. Other perks include full private medical cover, dental cover, Life Assurance and member rewards, 28 days annual leave, a competitive pension, season ticket loans, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and much more!

Equal Employment Opportunity

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug free workplace and perform pre employment substance abuse testing. CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on the mission to digitize the world's real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. CoStar is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by calling 1 or by sending an email to .