Customer Support Representative - Japanese & English Speaker

Posted:
8/29/2024, 4:08:49 PM

Location(s):
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ⋅ Victoria, Australia

Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level

Field(s):
Customer Success & Support

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your experience to a world-class company that is market-leading for both content and technology? Do you have experience working across the Japanese market? If yes, we are looking for you!

Based in Melbourne, we are looking for a Customer Support Representative who will support clients using our Confirmation products globally however, specifically focusing on our clients based in Japan.

This role will operate on a shift pattern (Monday to Friday) throughout the year: 9:30am – 6pm AEST / 10:30am – 7pm AEDT.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Customer Support Representative, you will:

  • Respond to customer inquiries in both English and Japanese via phone and email.

  • Concisely and accurately document information in our CRM system (Salesforce), paying particular attention to problem description, resolution taken, and any required follow-up action.

  • Handle complex and/or specialized issues, resolving as many inquiries as possible on the first interaction. Solving complex issues may involve interpreting the needs of the customer to determine the most applicable resolution.

  • Appropriately filter and escalate cases to other teams when appropriate (e.g. product, sales, technology, marketing, etc.).

  • Track resolution progress, and actively keep customers informed with updates.

  • Collect and forward customer feedback to facilitate continuous product improvement.

  • Promote usage of our public help centre to users to encourage self-help on support queries

  • Maintain up-to-date product knowledge of all supported products to facilitate the continued provision of quality guidance to customers.

  • Maintain data in our CRM system to ensure the accuracy of active users and contacts.

  • Ability to flex working hours to accommodate busy periods and react with increased productivity.

  • Help the team achieve their performance key metrics through queue management and excellent customer service.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Customer Support Representative if your background includes:

  • Fluent written and verbal communication skills in Japanese and English.

  • Minimum: 1 year experience in a customer facing position or equivalent experience desired.

  • Experience in customer support via phones, emails or in person.

  • Familiarity with the Microsoft office suite of software.

  • Strong problem solving, analysis, design, and testing skills.

  • Quick learner, eager to leverage new technologies in a dynamic team environment.

  • Strong commitment to customers and proven experience owning issues to resolution.

  • Work as part of a team & independently in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

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What's in it For You?


You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

  • Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

  • Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

  • Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

  • Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

  • Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

  • Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.


Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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Thomson Reuters Corporation

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Headquarter Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1977

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