Front Desk Operations
Front Desk Operations - Customer Service Representative: NYC, Long Island, NY, Hoboken, NJ, Greenwich, CT
alts | Alteration Specialists is looking for a Front Desk Operations Representative
Alts is looking for a dynamic professional Front Desk Operations member, distinguished by their charisma, commitment, and professional integrity. This role will include responding to phone calls and emails, office management and administration, as well as internal/external communication, and creative problem solving. This is a customer facing position, full-time role in New York City, Brooklyn, NY, Long Island, NY, Hoboken, NJ & Greenwich, CT, with competitive pay, full benefits, and opportunities for future growth.
Responsibilities include:
Front Desk - Office Management
- Maintain a professional, warm, welcoming office environment
- Greet all clients, manage check-ins, pickups and payment
- Answer all inbound calls to the Alteration Specialists Studio
- Manage all client bookings and appointments
- Process new transactions and ensure internal reporting is correct
- Responsible for ordering, tracking and managing office inventory, supplies and purchases
- Ensure all outsourced garments are appropriately tagged, distributed and delivered
- Manage the flow of fitting room processes and appointments
Customer Service
- Quick, warm, and on-brand customer communication across emails, calls and in-person
- Thoughtful and authentic recommendations to customers through a deep understanding of their need
- Thoughtful interaction with each customer
- Collect, organize, and track consumer feedback, day to day issues and other relevant information and communicate this to the team
- Contribute ideas to company policies to create an even better customer experience
Operations
- Ensure that all QC checkpoints that live with front operations are consistently met for each garment entering or leaving your studio
- Ensure all tickets are properly created, and processed throughout the garment’s life cycle with Alteration Specialists
- Properly record and document all RFA’s, refunds and other failures of process, and brainstorm written solutions to achieve a higher operational efficiency
Attributes
- You are warm, compassionate, and empathic. You have a calming demeanor and a way of building trusting, caring relationships with ease.
- You are a skilled communicator. You’re both a great listener and an effective speaker and writer. You treat sensitive information with respect and discretion.
- You are mission driven. You are motivated to help change the fashion industry, and move towards a more sustainable future and serve as an excellent ambassador for a cause you believe in.
- You are systematic. You derive pleasure from being highly organized, creating order, and checking things off your list.
- You are detail-oriented. You take pride in a beautifully executed workflow and typos in your emails make you cringe.
- You are thoughtful. You can anticipate the needs of your tailoring team and clients, and feel committed to proactively creating a supportive environment for all. You are able to recognize how your individual role feeds into the larger organization’s objectives.
- You have great professional integrity. You take ownership over your work, ask for help when you need it, and are committed to your own growth and development.
Experience
- Experience in customer service related roles preferred
- Prior responsibilities in the fashion industry, and communications management desired.
- Experience or deep interest in fashion and sustainability desired, with a working knowledge of garment construction desired.
*This is an entry-level/early career role.*
Why the Role is Compelling
As a Front Desk Operations member at Alts, you will play a critical role in the overall success of the store and contribute to a positive and dynamic shopping experience for customers. You will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic team, hone your organizational and customer service skills, and grow your career in the retail industry. This is a fantastic chance to join a supportive, goal-driven company with plenty of opportunities for advancement as the brand continues to expand. We are a performance-driven company, and strong performance can lead to promotion opportunities as early as three months to our full time Studio Experience Coordinator position which would come with a raise.
Alts is committed to hiring and rewarding top talent. We value hard work, dedication, and the development of our employees. As part of our team, you will receive competitive compensation, benefits, and ongoing opportunities for personal and professional growth.
CompensationFDO earns $18 an hour when you are accompanied by a Studio Experience Coordinator or other FDO. If you are working a shop on your own then you will be paid $20 an hour for that specific shift. $18 an hour is the base compensation for any and all FDO roles.
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