<p>About the Role:</p> <p>The Consumer Retention Specialist handles interactions with Kinetic customers that are entertaining the thought of disconnecting their services. The role is primarily responsible for saving, both reactively and proactively, every customer from disconnecting their Kinetic service. This is achieved by offering special retention offers, troubleshooting repair issues, which includes inputting repair tickets, offering faster internet speeds, and other add on services that may help retain the customer. A key goal with every interaction in this position is that whether the customer is saved from disconnecting or not, is for each conversation with a customer to be the last one that the customer must have with us before their initial inquiry is 100% resolved.</p> <p>Our Consumer Retention Specialists are expected to resolve the customers need for calling on each call, by educating, explaining, and saving our products and services while achieving low repeat caller statistics, with high customer satisfaction and last call resolution results. The Consumer Retention Specialist position has the opportunity to earn an additional monthly bonus in the form of commissions. <em>This position can be filled remotely in the following markets: Iowa: Newton, Des Moines, Knoxville, and Grinnell; Georgia: Cornelia and Dalton; and Harrison, AR.</em></p> <p>What You'll Do:</p> <ul> <li>Be the voice of the customer and a customer advocate to the leadership team </li><li>Handle calls in a remote work from home environment from customers that are threatening to disconnect, shop around, or are at high risk to disconnect their Kinetic products and services </li><li>Have a last stop shop mentality when resolving customer inquiries, whatever a customer may inquire about or need resolved you will own it </li><li>Log the customers reasons for calling and resolution taken using our Retention Recommender </li><li>Use Retention team only save offers and escalation procedures to prevent customers from disconnecting </li><li>Explain, retain, and sell products and services to existing customers as needed </li><li>Other duties as assigned </li></ul> <p>Do you Have?</p> <ul> <li>High School diploma or equivalent and at least 6 months experience. College hours or a college degree may be substituted for some experience as deemed appropriate </li><li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills </li><li>Strong organizational skills with the ability to multi-task, prioritize daily tasks, and perform successfully in a fast-paced environment </li><li>Must have land-based home internet service (ie: Fiber, Cable, or DSL) with a minimum 25 kbps download speed </li><li>Work environment must be distraction free and abide by Kinetic Work from Home policy </li><li>Must be able to work any shifts within the team operating hours: Monday - Friday, 7:00 am EST - 8:00 pm EST and rotating Saturdays from 8:30 am EST - 5:00 pm EST </li></ul> <p>Even Better:</p> <ul> <li>Bilingual (Spanish/English) skills are a plus </li></ul> <p>Physical Tasks- Sitting and Stationary: 67-100% | Carrying: Occasionally: 0-33% | Lifting-Lowering >1-15 lbs: Occasionally: 0-33% | Repetitive Hand Action: Medium Dexterity: Continuously: 67-100% | Fine Manipulating: Frequently: 34-66%</p> <p>Audio Visual Needs- Hearing: Continuously: 67-100%| Near Vision: Continuously: 67-100%| Far Vision: Occasionally: 0-33%| Peripheral Vision: Occasionally: 0-33%</p> <p>Equipment Used in Job Performance: Computer, Printer, Telephone, Basic Office Supplies</p>