Customer Service Team Leader

Customer Service Team Leader


Title: Customer Service Team Leader


Contract Type: 6 month fixed term contract, Full time, 35 hours


Salary starting : 42,149 per annum to 46,410 per annum (London weighted salary) or 37,573 per annum to 41,541per annum (Regional salary), (Dependant on experience)


Grade : 8


Reporting Office: London, Stratford or Manchester, Trafford


Persona: Homebased Worker: Contractual hours to be worked on a remote basis, with ad hoc office attendance as required.


Working Pattern: Monday to Friday, shifts been 8:00am - 6:15pm
Closing Date: 25 th September 2026

Benefits include: Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more


Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.


L&Q reserves the right to not progress applications for candidates who have had one unsuccessful application/interview process with L&Q for the same or similar role in the previous 12 months. (remove if internal only)


Please click here for the role profile - Customer Service Team Leader.docx




Join our award-winning Customer Service Centre at L&Q!


At L&Q, we're passionate about delivering outstanding customer experiences and inspiring teams to achieve excellence. That's why we're looking for a dynamic leader to join us and make a real impact in our fast-paced inbound customer service centre.


As a Customer Service Team Leader, you'll lead and motivate a large team of up to 17 people, driving performance and ensuring first-class service for our residents. You'll bring proven experience in managing high-volume customer service environments and a talent for coaching and developing people to reach their full potential.


If this sounds like you, we would love for you to apply!


Your Impact in the Role:

• Leading from the front, setting the standard for excellence and stepping in to support your team when needed.
• Driving performance to meet and exceed KPIs while fostering a culture of accountability and success.
• Acting as a confident and effective coach, inspiring and developing your team to deliver exceptional customer service.
• Promoting collaboration across teams and championing a right-first-time approach for every customer interaction.
• Playing a key role in leading change initiatives, ensuring processes are efficient and customer experiences are consistently outstanding.

What You'll Bring:


To excel in this role, you'll bring together strong leadership, adaptability, and a genuine passion for delivering outstanding customer service.

• Have a proven track record of coaching and developing team members while achieving departmental goals and managing a remote team.
• A proactive, hands-on approach-leading by example and stepping in to handle customers enquires at peak times.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to promote collaboration across teams, with excellent stakeholder management.
• Self-driven and resilient, with a creative, solution-oriented mindset.
• Analytical and detail-oriented, you identify issues in data, systems, and reporting, driving creative, solution-focused outcomes.
• Results-driven, consistently aiming to meet and exceed KPIs, while thriving in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Proven experience in leading a team to manage digital platforms and communication with customers.

Homebased roles:


We'll provide you with all the equipment you need to get started, including a laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse and headset. These items can be collected from one of our offices either in Stratford, London, or Trafford, Manchester.


As this is a home-based role, you'll need a quiet and suitable workspace with a desk and chair where you can work comfortably. You'll also be responsible for having a reliable broadband connection with a minimum speed of 30Mbps download and 10Mbps upload.


If you're successful, we'll ask you to provide evidence of your broadband speed and a photo of your home workspace as part of the onboarding process.


If you're ready to make a meaningful impact, drive performance, and keep customers at the heart of everything you do-apply today!


If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please email (url removed)


About L&Q:


We're one of the UK's leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people's health, happiness and security. Everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life.


250,000 people call our properties 'home', and we're proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England.


People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values and behavioural framework , which outlines our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q.


At L&Q, we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger - and they're at the heart of everything we do.


When we recruit, we look at what really matters: your skills, experience, and potential. We're proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. We're a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and we've introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair, transparent, and consistent. It's all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome - Find out more here .


Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK's largest housing associations.


Click here to find out more about L&Q and why you should join us.