Customer Service Manager at Givva Wealthtech Limited in Nairobi, Kenya

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    Customer Service Manager

    Givva Wealthtech LimitedNairobi, Kenya

    Posted

    2 days ago

    Apply by

    4 Sept

    Full Time
    On Site
    Senior
    Financial Technology (FinTech)
    Customer Service & Support

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    Job Description

    Givva Wealthtech Limited is seeking a Customer Service Manager to lead its customer service department and operations in Nairobi. The role focuses on driving a customer-centric culture, optimizing workforce capacity, and ensuring timely, quality support across the company's financial products. The manager will handle escalations, oversee onboarding, analyze performance data, and champion people management to enhance customer satisfaction and regulatory compliance.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Manage customer service department and operations while driving a customer-centric culture across the business, ensuring all clients and partners receive timely and quality support.
    • Evaluate and optimize workforce capacity and skills, ensuring proper staffing and role alignment to deliver best-in-class customer support across Givva's diverse financial products and services.
    • Ensure clients are served within agreed timelines by developing, reviewing, and refining service processes and policies to maximize customer satisfaction and regulatory compliance.
    • Handle escalated issues, including emerging service disruptions, system outages, or high impact customer complaints, ensuring follow-through and clear feedback to frontline teams.
    • Review and approve outgoing customer communications, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and alignment with Givva's brand voice and regulatory standards.
    • Oversee customer onboarding operations, leading the onboarding team to deliver smooth, efficient, and customer-satisfying experiences.
    • Analyze customer trends and performance data to inform operational adjustments, enhance service delivery, and align processes with evolving client needs.
    • Champion people management, ensuring compliance with policies, performance monitoring, and corrective action including disciplinary processes where necessary.
    • Drive engagement and inclusion across 100% remote and hybrid teams through structured feedback loops, communication, and motivational strategies.
    • Collaborate with leadership and cross-functional teams to enhance internal and external customer satisfaction, boosting Net Promoter Score NPS and Customer Effort Score CES.
    • Ensure accurate and timely reporting, delivering daily, weekly, and monthly performance dashboards on campaigns, SLAs, escalations, and customer insights.

    Required Qualifications

    • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Management, or related field Master's or professional customer service certification is an added advantage.
    • A minimum of 5 years' experience in customer service.
    • Proven leadership and people management skills, with experience managing large teams.
    • Strong background in call center operations, workforce optimization, process development, and cost control.
    • Expertise in handling escalations, system outages, and high-impact customer complaints.
    • Proficiency in CRM systems, call center tools, and reporting dashboards, with strong analytical and reporting skills.
    • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across departments.
    • Knowledge of fintech operations, financial products and regulatory compliance requirements.

    Job Details

    Job Function

    Customer Service & Support

    Minimum Experience

    5 years

    Education Level

    Bachelor’s Degree

    Area of Study

    Business

    Field of Study

    Business, Finance, Management

    Languages

    English

    Additional Information

    How to Apply: Interested and qualified? Go to Givva Wealthtech Limited on givva.world to apply.

    Show You Can Run a Customer Service Floor Under Pressure

    This role is about leading a large team through high-stakes escalations and system outages while keeping NPS and CES on track. Hiring managers will probe how you've built processes, managed workforce capacity, and turned unhappy customers into loyal ones.

    1. Quantify your team leadership: In your CV, state the exact size of teams you've managed and the channels you oversaw (calls, email, chat). Give numbers for SLAs met, escalation resolution times, and any NPS/CES improvements you drove.

    2. Prepare a crisis playbook story: Have a concrete example ready of handling a system outage or major complaint wave. Walk through how you communicated, triaged, and prevented repeat issues.

    3. Show your fintech fluency: Be ready to discuss how you've ensured regulatory compliance in customer communications and onboarding. Mention any experience with digital lending, mobile money, or investment platforms.

    4. Prove your workforce optimization skills: Talk about how you've used forecasting and scheduling to match staffing to demand. Mention any tools you've used for workforce management and how you cut costs without hurting service.

    5. Highlight your CRM and reporting chops: List the specific CRM and call center tools you've used (e.g., Salesforce, Zendesk, Five9). Bring examples of dashboards you built and how you used data to make decisions.

    6. Emphasize stakeholder communication: This role works with leadership and cross-functional teams. Prepare examples of how you've influenced other departments to improve customer outcomes.

    7. Show your people management style: Discuss how you've handled disciplinary processes and performance monitoring while keeping morale high. Mention any engagement initiatives you've led for remote or hybrid teams.

    8. Align with Givva's mission: Research Givva's products and customer base. In your cover letter or interview, connect your experience to their goal of boosting customer satisfaction and regulatory compliance.

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    Tags

    customer service
    call center
    CRM
    fintech
    leadership