Senior Credit & Debt Agent

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

Senior Credit and Debt Agent - This is a permanent, full-time position (37 hours per week)

About us

At British Gas, our people are our best asset, and we'd love you to join us! Our mission is to provide energy services and solutions to our customers sustainably, affordably, and simply. It’s what we do best. We’re proud to live our values every single day. We care. We’re courageous. We collaborate with each other.

We’re looking for people who can work from home after their training but commute to our Stockport office at least once a month.

Here’s the address:
British Gas
New Bridge Lane
Stockport
SK1 2GT

Salary £27,161 with an annual business review of up to 16% (paid quarterly)

Working Hours – Our opening hours are Monday to Friday between 8am and 6pm so shifts will fall between these hours.

Start Date - November 2024

Training – Your training will be in our Stockport office for 8 weeks. Please make sure this fits in with any pre-booked time you have off because we cannot allow any holidays during this time. ***Please note to ensure you have the best training support, initial training will be office based***

What will you be doing?
You’ll be working as a Senior Credit & Debt Agent in an exciting and ground-breaking new role in our British Gas Residential Energy Division. Supporting and resolving customer enquiries and complaints across a range of our products. Increasing customer retention and loyalty by providing amazing service whilst maximising opportunities to grow our business with our British Gas Product range.

You will be part of a multiskilled team, working with our residential energy customers. You will have end to end management and accountability for resolving any type of contact you receive in this department, being in control of your own performance. No transfers to other teams, just one stop resolution in the palm of your customers’ hands.

You will work with experts in a specialised area of your team, joining “gurus” within the department to solve pre-defined tasks on behalf of your customers, colleagues, and peers. This is your chance to really make a difference to our customers’ energy journey. You will be empowered to make smart and effective decisions by placing your customer at the heart of everything you do.

And the skills we need from you:

• Your absolute passion and flair for delivering amazing customer service should be one of your motivational drivers

• It goes without saying we need people with lots of energy and enthusiasm to deal with the different types of enquiries we receive every day, so your time management and organisational skills need to be on point!

• You will need to be digitally savvy as you will be working across multiple complex systems

• We work across a variety of contact channels; calls, webchat, messaging services so you should have fantastic communication skills, both written and verbal

• This department is super-fast paced and, at times, can be high pressure so your resilience, agility and ownership skills are key to this role

• Providing the right solution first time is a key focus of in all roles to ensure we deliver against our promises

• We ask you to be courageous and creative with your ideas to improve the customer journey and our processes that support this.

• Oh, and don’t forget we’d love to see you self-develop and improve your skills in the role and the wider business – we’ll support you with that too!

What else you’ll need:

When you work from home you will need a reliable broadband speed. We ask that it’s at least 10mbps download and similar upload speed. You will also need a suitable home working environment (we’ll provide the computer equipment, but you will need a suitable desk space with no interruptions or distractions).

Let’s talk benefits

Private Medical Cover

Holiday Allowance - 25 days holiday per year + bank holidays

Life Assurance
Contributory pension
A superb selection of fabulous flexible benefits
Occasional office commute – that’s got to be good for your wallet and the planet!

You’ll need the Right to Work in the UK so a passport/VISA or a birth certificate and proof of National Insurance are essential. A financial check will be carried out before you start with us to ensure you meet our criteria for employment. We’ll also ask you to complete a DBS Check (Criminal Records) and of course we’ll collect your previous employment references as standard.

“As part of our selection process to find the best people to join our team, when you apply for this role you will be asked to complete an online mandatory situational judgement exercise. This is to help us assess your suitability in terms of drive and capability for the demands of the role.”

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.