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Call Centre Agent

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 1+ years' call centre or high-volume phone experience
  • Clear, friendly spoken English with professional call control
  • Proven reliability: stable fibre internet, backup power for load shedding, and a quiet home office
  • Comfortable with tech tools: call systems or diallers, CRMs, and Google Workspace or Microsoft 365

Responsibilities

  • Answer inbound calls promptly with a professional, friendly manner
  • Handle bookings, queries, updates and confirmations accurately
  • Make outbound follow-up and courtesy calls to schedule
  • Log every call outcome cleanly in the system, first time

Key facts

Other skills

  • Technical Acumen
  • Communication
  • Professionalism
  • Reliability
  • Time Management

About the company

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Remote Recruitment

Staffing & Recruiting

REMOTE RECRUITMENT is a remote jobs recruitment agency that assists UK-based companies with finding the best talent for their needs. We operate as a full-service employment agency providing recruitment/staffing for the following specialist fields:- Marketing specialists- Sales- Assistants/adminWe source talent and handle the entire process on your behalf, based on your company’s needs for each role. We also take care of background checks and contracts to ensure you focus your attention where it’s needed, on your business.

Company details

Company typeScaleup
IndustryStaffing & Recruiting
Company size11 - 50

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Job description

A hundred calls a day, and every single caller deserves your best one. That is the job - and the right person loves it.

Job Overview

Our UK-based client is hiring a full-time, remote Call Centre Agent based in South Africa. You will handle inbound and outbound calls for UK customers: queries, bookings, updates and follow-ups - delivered with pace, accuracy and warmth. This is a long-term role on UK business hours.

About Our Client

The client is a busy UK operation where the phones never stay quiet for long. They know South African agents are among the best in the world at this work - clear English, natural warmth and serious work ethic - which is exactly why they are hiring here.

Key Responsibilities

- Answer inbound calls promptly with a professional, friendly manner

- Handle bookings, queries, updates and confirmations accurately

- Make outbound follow-up and courtesy calls to schedule

- Log every call outcome cleanly in the system, first time

- Resolve straightforward issues on the call; escalate the rest with clear notes

- Meet call quality, handling time and customer satisfaction targets

- Follow scripts and compliance requirements without sounding robotic

What You Will Be Doing Day-to-Day

Your shift runs on rhythm: headset on, queue live, one caller at a time getting your full attention. Between calls you wrap up notes fast and accurately, so the next agent - or tomorrow's you - has the full picture.

You will hit your numbers by being consistent, not rushed, and you will flag anything odd - a broken process, a recurring complaint - to the team leader who can fix it upstream.

This suits a South African professional with call centre experience who genuinely likes people, keeps energy up through a full shift, and takes quiet pride in clean stats.

If you are based in South Africa with clear spoken English and proven phone experience, this is a stable remote role with a UK employer that treats agents as professionals. Apply today.

Requirements

- 1+ years' call centre or high-volume phone experience

- Clear, friendly spoken English with professional call control

- Proven reliability: stable fibre internet, backup power for load shedding, and a quiet home office

- Comfortable with tech tools: call systems or diallers, CRMs, and Google Workspace or Microsoft 365

- Accurate, fast note-taking and after-call wrap-up

- Consistent, punctual and dependable across full shifts

Benefits

Full-time remote position working for a UK-based employer. Competitive salary paid in ZAR. Long-term stable role. Supportive team environment. Direct access to founder-led business.

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