Contact Centre Team Leader - Newcastle West, Limerick

As the leading foodservice provider across the island of Ireland, Sysco’s success is driven by a team of passionate and dedicated individuals who go above and beyond to deliver every day.  

We don’t just deliver food and drink to our customers. We deliver new thinking, technology and talent to our industry. We deliver opportunities - to ourselves and to our colleagues ensuring that we can all thrive in work and beyond.  

We are now looking for new talent to join us as we continue to grow, innovate and deliver.  

Contact Centre Team Lead- Newcastle West, Limerick

We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a Contact Centre Team Lead, a role which drives a culture of customer obsession within their team to capitalise on sales opportunities and minimize negative customer experience. The Team Leader delivers high levels of performance across all operational KPIs within their team. Provides an effective and efficient service to our customers across Tele-Sales and Customer Service. 

The Team Leader owns and drives individual as well as team projects and activities focused on delivering an efficient and effective customer experience. 

The Team Leader delivers results through others. The Team Leader leads and motivates a team to achieve exceptional performance and fosters an environment of engagement and enablement.

The role requires a candidate who will be: 

• A Leader with previous contact centre & people management experience 

• Self-motivated and results driven 

• Eager to expand Knowledge and Skills 

If you are ready for a challenge, we want to hear from you.

Apply today and discover what your career could look like with Sysco Ireland. 

Key Accountabilities: 

• Understand, Manage and deliver team level results against set KPIs working with the Contact Centre Manager to ensure that all customers view Sysco as their most trusted partner. 

• Instil a strong customer focused mind set within the team to both ensure adherence to SLA's and end to end ownership of customer issues. Your team acts as the voice of the customer within the business. 

• Demonstrate leadership, and work as a role model at all times through inclusiveness, integrity, transparency and empathy. 

• Ensure that your team are Sysco advocates who consistently demonstrate the values of a Sysco employee 

• Create a positive culture within your team where successes are shared and celebrated. 

• Develop your direct reports by ensuring consistent performance feedback setting specific achievable goals. 

• Provide coaching and training to give your team the strongest possible foundation for their career within Sysco. 

Requirements: 

• Experience in use of Sales Force desirable but not necessary. 

• Ability to perform under pressurised situations, seeking out solutions, getting people to trust and follow your lead. 

• Able to manage workload & conflicting priorities.  

• Presents a calm exterior at all times. 

• Solution Oriented: Ability to effectively plan, organise and deliver, ensuring milestones are in place and reviewed regularly against requirements. 

• Demonstrate commercial acumen, able to challenge the status quo; not afraid to ask why, and suggest ideas that will improve People Engagement, Customer Satisfaction or Commercial Delivery.  

• A self-starter who has a demonstrated capability and maturity to take ownership of their own development. 

• Thrives on working in a team and supporting others to achieve their goals both within their department and cross functionally. 

• Able to operate effectively & proactively in a customer service environment with attention to detail and high work standards in support of a “Right First Time” mindset.  

• Excellent Interpersonal and communication skills -ability to communicate cross-functionally at all business levels. 

• Excellent organisation and time management skills. 

• Ability to think strategically, know what matters to the business and the customer in terms of KPI's / goals etc. 

• Uses Sysco Speaks as a framework for driving People Engagement, by understanding that people are our greatest asset. 

Sysco Ireland Culture 

• Customer Focus: We deeply understand our customers' needs, continuously looking at ways to deliver real value. 

• Building Relationships: We foster strong, effective relationships across teams, always working together. We embrace change and support each other through it. 

• Clear Communication: We communicate clearly and effectively, ensuring our message resonates.  

• A Passion for Food: We source and deliver food and drink that inspires excellence and creativity in kitchens for the most memorable dining experiences.