Our Newcastle team has an exciting opportunity available for an organised, efficient and dedicated Customer Care Executive to join them on a permanent full-time basis.

Your extraordinary skills will be used for the day-to-day phone based management of our business customers. This role reports directly to the Customer Service Manager and will see you utilise your awesome Customer Service experience to enhance customer relationships, nurture the existing portfolio, grow and sustain the business services portfolio as well as exploring sales opportunities through actively promoting our services via inbound and outbound activities.

In this role, you will be required to:

• Conduct outbound calls to existing customers and exceptional customer service
• Sell consultatively and make recommendations to prospects and customers of various solutions the company offers
• Actively identify new business lead opportunities and communicate these via the standard operating procedures to the relevant field sales person
• Develop a database of qualified leads through referrals, telephone conversations and networking
• Effective management and resolution of all customer enquiries in a timely manner
• Focus on client retention and protect existing portfolio by identifying opportunities to re-sign and upgrade existing contracts
• Create quality sales leads for the field based sales team
• Liaise with other departments to ensure customer enquiries are resolved in a timely manner
• 1st contact resolution
• Processing enquiries efficiently and pro-actively resolving client issues
• Make outgoing calls to our existing client database to promote our products and services

To be successful, you will need to have the following:

• Prior experience in Sales, Account Management and Customer Service role.
• Highly developed negotiation skills to ensure contractual obligations are met
• Previous working experience in a similar role will be highly regarded
• 2 years excellent customer service/telesales skills
• Demonstrated skills in B2B sales development
• Highly effective time management skills
• Intermediate computer and system skills
• Complaint handling experience
• Ability to work under pressure, multi-task and work autonomously
• Meeting Deadlines and KPIs' on a daily/monthly basis
• High attention to detail
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Love working in a team environment

The successful candidate must be able to pass a Pre-employment medical as well as background checks.

About Us -

Rentokil Initial is a member of the FTSE 100 of leading companies. This is a growing and successful business – we employ some 36,000 colleagues across 66 countries – and offer a wide range of learning and development programmes for colleagues to enhance their skills.

If you're the Customer Service Superstar we're looking for, and you are seeking a supportive company culture and a great opportunity for your career, click the Apply button now to submit your resume.

Employee Testimonials -

"I have been with Rentokil Initial for 15 years and they have always been there and supportive of me...so I have tried to carry that on as a manager myself."

Deb Morris

"The team culture is inclusive, family-oriented and feels like a small business even though it is global"

Lisa Craker

Love getting out on the road, having control over your schedule and the idea of an early afternoon knockoff? A role as a hygiene technician with Initial Hygiene (A Rentokil Initial company) could be what you’re looking for.

Initial Hygiene is looking for enthusiastic, natural-born problem solvers with a great attitude to join our team of hygiene technicians covering the Dubbo area.

If you’re looking for a job that offers autonomy, flexibility and variety and are looking to be part of an organisation where you are empowered and supported every step of the way, we’d love to hear from you.

Benefits of being part of the Initial Hygiene team:

• A fully-maintained company van including fuel card
• Mobile phone
• Employee cash incentive programs & bonuses
• Company uniform, safety boots and all the tools you need
• Comprehensive induction, training and qualification
• Access to employee assistance program, for you and your family
• Ongoing learning and development
• Career Progression, many of our technicians have expanded into managerial, supervisory or cross functional roles ...and more!

At Rentokil Initial, we take care of the training, but what we do need from you is:

• Valid driver’s license
• As part of the recruitment process, you will be required to complete pre-employment medical, references and police checks
• Confident using a mobile phone service app/tablet

About Rentokil Initial (Parent company of Initial Hygiene)

At Rentokil Initial, we are proud to be the global expert in pest, hygiene and indoor plant care. What sets us apart is our people. We are a friendly and supportive team driven by a passion to help protect people, enhance lives and preserve our planet, every day.

From washrooms, to aged care homes, to office plantscaping and classrooms – we're there, ready, bursting with passion and pride to make a positive difference for our customers and communities.

"As an Initial Hygiene Technician, you feel like your own boss."

Stephen Kroger

Initial Hygiene Technician

"There are so many things I love about my job. I love being on the road, my own little van that I get to zoom around in, and the relationships and connections I get to build."

Angela Smith

Technician

Our Why

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

About the Role

Our Service Desk Agents are the first point of contact for our clients. No two days will be the same as you’ll be proactively problem solving any customer issues that come your way or escalating them as appropriate.
As part of the Managed Services team, you’ll provide high quality, efficient support to our clients and their customers through responding to telephone calls, emails and alert monitoring. Following ITIL processes, you’ll identify, troubleshoot and resolve incidents and service requests.

At Datacom we’re committed to developing, retaining, and promoting diverse talent. We want to help you grow your current skills and give you the opportunity to learn and develop brand new ones.

Have a qualification in IT and looking for your entry to the industry? We promise to provide you with a supportive environment while learning the key foundations in our Service Desk team and all we need from you is passion and enthusiasm!

Your career at Datacom, just like technology, has endless possibilities. Looking to get into Cyber Security, Cloud, Network or Database engineering? Our Service Desk Agent roles are the first step in unlocking your IT career!

If you're looking for meaningful work with genuine career progression opportunities, training and development, we'd love to hear from you!

Operating Hours
The operational hours for the Service Desk are Monday to Sunday 6am to 10.30pm, to be successful for a Full-Time role you will need to have full availability to work across these hours on a rotating roster!

Benefits

• Continued opportunities for long term growth in IT in Australasia's largest professional IT services company!
• We aim to have everyone ITIL certified in their second year!
• We offer options for you to interview virtually.
• Best in class rewards and recognition program including awards and corporate retail discounts on tap.
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee referral programs - once you are in and you are loving it - you can refer a friend and get $1000!

What you’ll bring

Someone who wants to be part of a team that is striving to achieve the best possible outcome for all our customers, and develop skills and knowledge that form the foundation of a career in IT.

In our successful candidates we are looking for:

• Self-starters who are motivated to kick-start their careers in technology
• Team players who have excellent interpersonal skills (you’ll be working with people just as much as computers)
• Customer-centric superstars — we pride ourselves on delivering our best work to our customers
• Awesome problem-solvers who have fresh ideas and are willing to give anything a go.

Due to client clearance requirements Australian Citizenship, ability to pass national police check and willingness to obtain a Baseline Clearance is essential.

Why join us here at Datacom?

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.

We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.

The customer service role is to provide quality on-time support to our Operations teams including our wide customer base!

Your ability to build strong relationships with internal staff and our customers will be an essential part of the role.

You will need to have outstanding communication and interpersonal skills and the ability work independently solve any issues that may arise and be able to work in a fast-paced and changing environment in order to ensure the business meets the timeslot deliveries and pickups requirements.

About BagTrans

BagTrans is a national transport company for over 35 years and has been working with some well-known household brand names in the Australian Consumer, Packaged Goods, Pharmaceutical and Food Manufacturing sectors.

We are an ever growing business with a culture built on trust, respect and determination. Our focus is on delivering quality and exceptional service to our customers, we believe that our success today is the future.

With a national footprint, that is why we are the natural supply chain partner of choice.

About you:

• At least 2 years' experience in a customer service role within the logistics, freight, or delivery service industries.
• Excellent planning and communication skills.
• Ability to organise workload in a busy environment while coordinating multiple timelines and priorities consistently.
• Excellent focus and attitude towards customer service.
• Strong work ethic and poses a "Can do" attitude.
  

Why you will want to work with us...

• Great security and stability with our rapidly growing company.
• Internal advancement opportunities for high performers
• Free onsite parking
• Working with like-minded and passionate people in an environment that will support and challenge you.
• Supportive and energetic team culture.
  

BagTrans is proud to be a part of the Logistics Holdings Australia Group (LHA) network of companies, a Division of Freight Management Holdings (FMH).

Love getting out on the road, solving problems on your feet and meeting new people? A role as a pest control technician with Rentokil Initial could be what you’re looking for.

As a pest control technician, you’ll be responsible for working with commercial customers in Lismore, Ballina, Alstonville and surrounding areas to keep their premises pest-free.

The ideal applicant will live in these areas or close by, the team is run out of Arundel on the Gold Coast.

So, if you are a natural-born problem solver who values autonomy and flexibility, and are looking to be part of an organisation where you are empowered and supported every step of the way, we’d love to hear from you.

Benefits of being part of the Rentokil Initial team:

• Working for the world’s largest pest control company
• A fully-maintained company van including fuel card
• Mobile phone
• Employee cash incentive programs & bonuses
• Company uniform, safety boots and all the tools you need
• Comprehensive induction, training and qualification
• Access to employee assistance program, for you and your family
• Ongoing learning and development
• Career Progression, many of our technicians have expanded into managerial, supervisory or cross functional roles
• ...and more!

At Rentokil Initial, we take care of the training, but what we do need from you is:

• Valid manual Australian driver’s license
• As part of the recruitment process, you will be required to complete pre-employment medical, references and police checks

• Experience working independently to achieve set targets
• Ability to communicate to internal stakeholders and clients both verbally and in writing
• Confident using a mobile phone service app/tablet
• Manage, maintain and build upon client relationships

About Rentokil Initial

At Rentokil Initial, we are proud to be the global expert in pest, hygiene and indoor plant care. What sets us apart is our people. We are a friendly and supportive team driven by a passion to help protect people, enhance lives and preserve our planet, every day.

From washrooms, to aged care homes, to office plantscaping and classrooms – we're there, ready, bursting with passion and pride to make a positive difference for our customers and communities.

In Australia, we operate three brands: Rentokil Pest Control, Initial Hygiene and Ambius Indoor Plants. Our parent company, Rentokil Initial plc, employs more than 56,000 people across more than 80 countries, supporting over 5 million customers.

Employee Testimonials:

"There are so many things I love about my job. I love being on the road, my own little van that I get to zoom around in, and the relationships and connections I get to build."

Angela Smith

Technician

"There's a sense of purpose in what I do. I get up and go to work to make sure that my people are safe, they're happy and our clients are serviced."

Darran Gibson

Local Service Manager

"Rentokil Initial is the undisputed leader in the global pest industry, and I am very happy to work for them."

Don Ng

Pest Control Technician