Customer Service Manager

Lead People

Build Relationships

Make a Difference

Customer Service Manager

Location: Brough Salary: £38,000 - £45,000 Contract: Permanent, Full-time

Are you an experienced customer service leader who enjoys developing people, managing key accounts and building strong commercial relationships? This could be the opportunity to put your leadership and account management experience to work in a role where you can make a genuine difference.

Consortium Professional Recruitment are delighted to be partnering with an established specialist equipment hire business to recruit a Customer Service Manager . This newly created position offers the opportunity to lead a close-knit team, take ownership of important customer accounts and shape a more proactive, commercially focused approach to customer service. You'll join a collaborative, hands-on environment where people are valued, ideas are welcomed and building long-term customer partnerships is central to success.

The Opportunity:

As a Customer Service Manager , you'll play a key role in:

• Leading and developing a team: Coach, support and motivate an established customer service team, creating clear expectations and helping individuals build confidence, capability and commercial awareness.
• Managing key accounts: Take ownership of key customer relationships, acting as a trusted point of contact, understanding their ongoing requirements and ensuring they receive a consistently high standard of service.
• Developing existing customer accounts: Build strong, lasting B2B relationships through proactive account management, regular customer engagement and identifying opportunities to strengthen partnerships and grow account value.
• Delivering excellent customer service: Work alongside your team to manage customer enquiries, quotations, orders and equipment hire requirements, ensuring a responsive and reliable service.
• Improving processes and performance: Introduce practical improvements, establish consistent service standards and work collaboratively with operational, transport and finance colleagues to deliver on customer commitments.

Your work will directly contribute to stronger customer retention, increased account development opportunities, a more commercially aware customer service team and continued business growth. This is a genuinely hands-on leadership opportunity, combining people management, operational customer service and key account management. It's ideal for someone who enjoys developing customer relationships as much as developing their team.

About You:

We're looking for someone who can bring:

• Proven account management experience: Previous experience managing and developing B2B customer accounts is essential, including building long-term relationships, understanding customer needs and identifying opportunities for account growth.
• Key account relationship management: Confidence in managing important customer relationships, handling customer expectations and acting as a trusted partner to support customer retention and satisfaction.
• People leadership experience: A proven ability to lead, coach and develop a customer-facing team, with the confidence to introduce positive change and support different working styles.
• A strong customer service background: Experience delivering excellent service within a B2B, operational, technical or product-led environment.
• Commercial awareness: The ability to recognise opportunities to develop existing accounts, increase customer engagement and recommend relevant products or services through a consultative, relationship-led approach.
• Communication and organisational skills: A collaborative approach, sound judgement and the ability to balance customer account responsibilities, team leadership and operational priorities.

Experience within equipment hire, construction, engineering, manufacturing or a similar sector would be advantageous, but isn't essential. We're equally interested in hearing from people with transferable B2B account management and leadership experience. You'll be approachable, proactive and commercially minded, with a genuine interest in building customer relationships and supporting your team to succeed.

While previous account management experience is important for this position, you don't need to meet every desirable requirement to be considered. If you have relevant leadership experience, enjoy developing customer accounts and can see yourself making a positive contribution, we'd encourage you to apply.

The Benefits and Package:

In return, you'll enjoy:

• Salary: £38,000 - £45,000
• 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays
• An additional day off for your birthday
• Private healthcare
• Pension scheme
• Regular team socials and company events
• Monday to Friday working, with no weekend requirements
• A supportive, close-knit working environment with direct access to decision-makers
• The opportunity to shape a newly created role and make a visible impact on team development, key account relationships and customer experience

How to Apply:

This exciting Customer Service Manager opportunity is being managed by Consortium Professional Recruitment, a trusted recruitment partner. If you're ready to take the next step in your career and would welcome the opportunity to lead a team, manage key accounts and build strong, lasting customer relationships, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply with your CV attached.

Consortium Professional Recruitment Ltd are a professional level recruitment consultancy specialising in the delivery of high relevance recruitment services on behalf of our clients across the UK. We regularly receive large responses to our advertising which can make providing individual feedback to every applicant challenging. If you haven’t received a reply from us within 14 days of your application, we regret to say your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. We have a policy of retaining your details for future vacancies unless you request otherwise. To learn more about our services, please visit consortiumrecruitment.co.uk