Customer Support Consultant (German Speaker)

RoomRaccoon

RoomRaccoon was founded by Nadja Buckenberger and Tymen Van Dyl in 2017 with a mission to redefine hotel operations through our all-in-one hotel management system.  

Our diverse team of 110 professionals, spread across 5 offices worldwide, serves 2000+ clients across Europe, USA and Africa.

Title: Customer Support Consultant / Customer Care Consultant 

Type: On-site

Terms: Full-time (3 month FTC > Permanent)

Language: German 

Location: Only considering applications-based in South Africa (Cape Town).

Your North Star

Customer Support plays a crucial role in our business by providing high-quality assistance and resolving client queries through excellent communication skills. This ensures a positive and productive experience with our product, leading to increased client satisfaction and retention. 

As a Customer Care Consultant, you will need the ability to quickly identify issues and troubleshoot problems, all while showing empathy and patience throughout the process to address client needs effectively. 

You will join a global team of customer service representatives and will be responsible for taking care of our German clients.

Day in the life of the Customer Support Consultant

Customer Support

• Support hoteliers by providing professional, personalised responses to their queries via email, phone, and online discussion forums. 
• Deliver world class customer experience by listening to hoteliers and being responsive to their needs as well as going the extra mile to pre-empt future needs 

• Assess queries and, where necessary, escalate to internal teams via pre-defined processes and channels and follow up to ensure resolution 
• Meet daily & weekly engagement metrics with a goal to achieve set targets for customer satisfaction and retention 

Retention and Service Recovery  

• Working closely with our Implementations Team to ensure a seamless transition of client accounts to support.  
• Acknowledge hotelier dissatisfaction and demonstrate extreme care when engaging with them with a goal to retain dissatisfied customers and turn them into promoters 
• Retain hoteliers by understanding the situations and behaviors that indicate they want to stop using RoomRaccoon and work with internal teams to prioritise resolving their issues 

Key skills:

• Non-negotiable: Fluency in German and English
• Has 2+ years' experience in a service-oriented, technical or customer support role 
• Technical proficiency in working on different systems (training will be provided) 

Beneficial skills:

• Hotel (front desk/reservations) / and or hospitality experience 

How to be successful as the Customer Support Consultant 

• Problem Solving
• Customer focused 
• Active Listening
• Empathy
• Resilience

Perks: 

• Free Food Fridays
• Mac Environment - Equipment provided 
  
• Incentive Based Commission 
• Formal Training Budget
• Annual Hotel Experience
  

Disclaimer: Thanks so much for your excitement about joining RoomRaccoon! We’re lucky to have so many talented people eager to be part of our team, so we’re reviewing applications as they come in. If you don’t hear from us within three weeks, it means we’ve decided to move forward with other candidates this time—but don’t be discouraged! Keep an eye on our careers page, and we’d love for you to apply for roles that fit your talents in the future!