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Admin/Customer Service Asst

Hot Tuna Plc

£17,500 pa

Full time. Permanent

About this role

We are looking for an energetic and lively admin assistant who will also look after our Customer Services help line. You'll be a key part of the team, responsible for answering the phones when other executives are out of the office, dealing with orders and enquiries from our Distributors across Europe, helping the Finance Controller with data entry and financial administration as required, helping the Design Director with production schedules and order management, and generally getting stuck in to daily events as they occur. Should be exciting!
You will also be responsible for Customer Service. We are just about to launch our e-commerce website so customers can buy Hot Tuna direct on line. If they have any queries about our website or about their order, or if they want to return an item, they’ll call you and you’ll sort them out. Don’t worry though, you’ll be fully trained and well supported by your colleagues to make sure the customer's experience is the best it can be.

Person description

Skills and interests: To be a good Admin/Customer Services Assistant, you must:
•have a genuine interest in working with and helping colleagues and customers
•have good communication skills
•be polite, tactful and friendly
•be numerate, lively and quick-thinking
•be patient and calm
•be able to handle complaints and difficult situations
•be proficient on Word and Exel
•be keen to learn new tricks
Qualifications and/or experience: You will need a good general educational background, at least two to four GCSEs (A-C) including English and maths. All round work experience in an office environment will be a plus. But most important of all you need to be willing to help, keen to learn and looking to have fun at work as part of a creative little group. Whether you are a school leaver or a parent returning to work or an older employee looking for a new challenge, give us a call.
You’ll be supervised and mentored by the financial controller, who will also be brand new to the company, so will do everything possible to help you to help your colleagues and customers and make Hot Tuna a successful and fun place to be!

About Hot Tuna Plc

Hot Tuna is a rapidly expanding multi-national surfwear and streetwear business, with a proud heritage of fun loving and ‘edgy’ design. Although Hot Tuna has small offices in the USA and Australia, it is run by a very small team in London, soon to relocate to fun offices in Lambeth, SE1.

How to apply

If you fancy working with us please email me, [email protected]
I'm the non-exec director at Hot Tuna and I'm handling recruitment right now. Please call me on 07825 303060 to tell me you have applied or if you want to know more. Best of luck! Francis

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This notice was posted on Wednesday 6 July 2011
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