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Advanced Customer Care Associate

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Strong problem solving skills including customer de-escalation
  • Excellent reading and written language skills (English)
  • 1+ years of customer service experience in retail, hospitality or contact center
  • High School Diploma or GED is preferred, not required

Responsibilities

  • Deliver exceptional service across every channel, including phone, chat, email, and beyond
  • Manage escalated customer concerns by providing advanced solutions and/or compensation
  • Build lifetime relationships with customers through ownership of complex follow-up and resolution
  • Work closely with all business partners to facilitate solutions and provide timely feedback

About the company

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Crate and Barrel

Retail – Furniture & Home Furnishings

At Crate and Barrel, we help people love how they live in moments that matter. Founded in 1962, Crate and Barrel, Holdings (CBH) is an industry-leading home furnishings specialty retailer, including the brands Crate and Barrel, Crate and Kids, CB2, and Hudson and Grace. A leader in omnichannel retail and direct marketing, we believe in the experience of physical stores and embracing the customer experience by offering inspired living across all of our platforms. From curated product sourcing and production to custom delivery and set-up in more than 90 countries, our 7,500 talented associates form the dynamic teams that keep our company running and growing. Today, Crate and Barrel, Holdings is owned by the Otto Group, a Hamburg, Germany based global family of retailers and retail-related service providers focused on digital innovation, technology, sustainability and corporate responsibility. We operate more than 100 stores throughout the U.S. and Canada, and hold international franchise locations in nine countries, including six franchise eCommerce platforms. To learn more about Crate and Barrel, visit www.crateandbarrel.com. To become a part of our family of brands, visit our careers site at www.jobs.crateandbarrel.com and www.jobs.cb2.com

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryRetail – Furniture & Home Furnishings
Company size5001 - 10000

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Job description

We inspire purpose-filled living that brings joy to the modern home. With a team of more than 8,000 associates spanning 130 store and distribution locations across the U.S. and Canada, we achieve together, drive results and innovate to inspire. Drawn together by a shared passion for our customers and a spirit of fun, we deliver high-quality home furnishings that are expertly designed, responsibly sourced and bring beauty and function to people’s homes. From the day we opened our first store in Chicago in 1962 to the digital innovations that engage millions of customers today, our iconic brand is nearly 60 years in the making—and our story is still unfolding.

 

The Advanced Customer Care Associate elevates the customer experience by delivering exceptional service across every channel, phone, chat, email, and beyond. This role serves as a skilled troubleshooter, managing escalated issues with urgency, empathy, and sound judgment to preserve and strengthen long-term customer relationships.

 

A day in the life of an Advanced Care Associate...

  • Demonstrate a high quality of customer service and accountability by maintaining a positive, empathetic and professional attitude toward internal and external customers
  • Build lifetime relationships with customers through ownership of complex follow-up and resolution
  • Maintain passion for the brand and expertise in products and services
  • Suggest alternative product solutions and/or upsell based on customers’ needs
  • Highly proficient at expressing information and concepts clearly and professionally and adapts communication style to audience and situation
  • Respond to domestic and international customer questions, requests and concerns via all channels while achieving team and department goals
  • Work in speciality groups when assigned
  • Manage escalated customer concerns by providing advanced solutions and/or compensation to customers based on department guidelines.
  • Ownership of customer needs from start to finish by being the customers Hero
  • Work closely with all business partners to facilitate solutions and provide timely feedback
  • Develop and maintain effective, collaborative relationships with internal and external customer
  • Offer support to others in all settings, be a team player
  • Provide on demand coaching to Customer Care associates to support first contact resolution
  • Adhere to all Customer Care Guidelines
  • Perform other duties, as assigned

What you'll bring to the table...

  • Strong problem solving skills including customer de-escalation and a can-do attitude
  • Excellent reading and written language skills (English): good math skills
  • Excellent organizational skills, ability to multi-task and navigate through multiple systems in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent telephone presence, interpersonal skills, and ability to communicate effectively with a diverse group of people
  • Excellent data entry, typing and computer skills
  • Ability to be self-sufficient, manage time in a scheduled work environment, supporting the team and the customer
  • Thorough working knowledge of email, internet browsers, and Google platform
  • Possess a selling focus including offering Crate and Barrel Credit Card (CBCC), alternative items, upsell and provide a supportive shopping experience


We'd love to hear from you if you have...

  • High School Diploma or GED is preferred, not required
  • 1+ years of customer service experience in retail, hospitality or contact center
  • Advanced knowledge in phone, email and/or chat required

     

    Euromarket Designs, Inc., which does business as Crate and Barrel and CB2, will be referred to as “the Company”. The Company is deeply committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please contact the location you are applying to here and ask to speak with a manager regarding the nature of your request.

    The Company is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

    The Company participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the US.

    State / City Compliance: The Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal history, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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