Are you passionate about creating positive experiences for students and their families? At Contour Education, we’re dedicated to supporting students throughout their educational journey, and our Customer Service Representatives are at the heart of delivering exceptional service every day.

If you’re empathetic, reliable, and love being part of a dynamic, people-focused environment, this role is your opportunity to make a difference.

Who Are We

At Contour Education, we’re revolutionising tutoring with engaging, small-group sessions that prepare students for success. We’ve been reshaping education since 2020, with over 5,000 students enrolled and 100+ team members having joined us on this exciting journey. Recognised as one of Australia’s fastest-growing startups for 4 straight years, we’re not slowing down!

The Role

What You’ll Do

• Support Students & Parents: Handle incoming enquiries via Missive and Podium about schedules, invoicing, rescheduling, and general information, ensuring quick, professional, and solutions-oriented responses.
• Oversee Campus Operations: Keep the campus running smoothly by managing administrative tasks, maintaining stock and equipment, and preparing classrooms to create a welcoming learning environment.
• Engage with Customers: Assist walk-in students and parents at the campus, providing support and information in a patient, empathetic manner.
• Maintain High Standards: Monitor and address any operational issues during classes, ensuring a seamless and enjoyable experience for everyone involved.

Who You Are

• A Great Communicator: You listen actively, show patience, and deliver clear, empathetic communication that leaves a lasting positive impression.
• Organised & Detail-Oriented: You juggle multiple tasks efficiently and ensure accuracy in everything from scheduling to record-keeping.
• Proactive & Adaptable: You’re quick to solve problems and flexible in managing the day-to-day demands of campus operations.
• Tech-Savvy: You’re comfortable using tools like Missive and Podium and eager to learn new systems as needed.

Why Join Contour?

• Meaningful Impact: Be a key part of a team that supports students in achieving their educational goals.
• Supportive Environment: Work in a collaborative and dynamic workplace where your efforts are valued.
• Diverse Role: Enjoy a mix of administrative, customer service, and operational tasks that keep things interesting.
• Flexible Hours: Fit work around your schedule with weekend shifts available.

If you’re detail-oriented, empathetic, and excited to contribute to Contour's mission, we’d love to hear from you!

Skill Requirements

• Above market rate compensation.
• Significant improvement in public speaking, team, and leadership skills (and you get paid for it).
• Personalised mentorship, training and feedback to improve your customer service and communication skills.
• Creative freedom in a fun start-up environment (no corporate walls, talk directly to the founders or students).
• Satisfying and fulfilling work that ultimately helps students thrive and succeed (it feels good when you help students enjoy their time at Contour, and do well at school!).
• Opportunities for career growth and long-term opportunities in a rapidly growing education company.

As a high-growth tech company selling software in a competitive global market, the work is not easy. But it’s interesting and super fun. As the Customer Success Consultant, your primary purpose is to ensure our customers get, and keep getting value from their investment in Phocas. You strive to retain our customers, turn them into advocates for Phocas and proactively identify opportunities for further revenue growth within our existing customer base.

It’s what our consultants love about the work. Because it gives meaning to their roles. Oh, and did we mention it was fun?
No? Well, you’re in for a good time.

Here’s how you’ll do that

• Proactively drive activities that increase brand awareness, product presence and user adoption. This could be through regular customer account reviews, product demonstration, customer training, events and other marketing activities
• Provide exceptional service and support, and ensure the customer is gaining value from their investment through coaching, advice and training
• Guiding clients through onboarding, issue resolution, and adoption phases with your fantastic communication and training abilities
• Identify new business opportunities within the account for revenue growth
• Collaborate with global colleagues to continuously improve products, internal processes and documentation as they relate to customer success

This is what you’ll need to do it

• A love of working with customers and developing long-term value
• Excellent presentation, training and communication skills
• You enjoy building rapport with your customers, and staying up to date with product enhancements and features
• Financial planning, accounting, or financial modeling knowledge, as well as an understanding of ERPs is essential
• Solid understanding of business needs and customer focus with a dedication to customer experience
• Previous experience within a Customer Success role within SaaS

A bit about us to see if we’re a match for your enthusiasm

We’re a business planning and analytics company on a mission to make people feel good about data. We’ve been hard at it for 20+ years, helping 2,300 companies turn complex business data into performance boosting results. Despite our global status, we’ve held on to our start-up roots. The result is a workplace that’s fast, exciting and designed for fun.

Create your happy place!

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.

Phocas is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology or another related subject. In lieu of degree, relevant equivalent experience required.
• Minimum 3 years’ prior experience working in Customer Success or Account Management roles
• Proven track record of meeting or exceeding retention goals / customer satisfaction metrics
• Experience with Phocas or related products – other BI, CRM, ERP software products

• Previous experience working within the SaaS/IT industry
• Familiarity with financial planning, accounting, or financial modeling is essential