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Customer Care Trainer

Johnny's Selected Seeds
Waterville, ME Full Time
POSTED ON 3/10/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/8/2025

Job Description

Job Description

Johnny's Selected Seeds was established in 1973 by our Founder, Rob Johnston, Jr. Today we are 100% Employee Owned . Johnny's mission is Helping families, friends, and communities to feed one another by providing superior seeds, tools, information, and service .

Johnny's is renowned for our exceptional customer service offering seeds, tools, supplies and information to direct market growers and avid home gardeners. We source, breed, trial, and sell outstanding selected varieties of vegetables, cut flowers, herbs, and farm seed, as well as thoughtfully designed tools and equipment. We take pride in the wealth of information and depth of experience we offer our customer base, nationwide and globally.

If you are passionate about good, healthy food and would choose to work for a company with fellow co-owners who are passionate about our mission and values, Johnny's may be the place for you!

Customer Care Trainer

Onsite Fairfield, ME

Position Summary

Reporting to the Shared Services Manager, the Customer Care Trainer trains and supports all training across our Customer Care groups. The Trainer is responsible for evaluating our needs and current practices, and for creating, delivering, and maintaining a training development plan complete with online modules, and SOP instruction guides. The Trainer is also responsible for ensuring Contact Center Representatives interact with customers in accordance with Johnny's set guidelines and will monitor and assess the quality of Contact Center Representative and customer interaction across all the Customer Care groups and communication methods including phone calls (inbound and outbound), emails, and live chat.

This position is full-time, year-round, on-site at Johnny's Selected Seeds Business Office in Fairfield, Maine

Responsibilities

  • Develop a process to assess training needs
  • Schedule, communicate, and instruct employee training and ongoing training needs
  • Create training strategies, initiatives, and materials such as online resources and training docs.
  • Contact and utilize others within the company for resources for instructional training
  • Test and review created materials
  • Maintain a database of all up to date training materials
  • Monitoring and assessing performance against a set of criteria
  • Provide QM feedback to Sales and Customer Service agents by offering constructive feedback on what areas can be improved as well as areas that are executed well.
  • Develop a metric for Quality Scores to track individual and team performance
  • Preparing reports for management on where the Contact Center has improved and where it could improve further
  • Ongoing implementation of agent training and coaching initiatives

Education

  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college / university or equivalent work experience
  • Qualifications & Skills

  • Proficient computer skills, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel)
  • Experience with technologies and best practices for instructional manuals and teaching platforms
  • Adherence to company philosophy / mission statement / sales goals
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and communication, both written and verbal.
  • Ability to identify individual and team skill gaps
  • Organized, able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently
  • Leadership and team building skills a plus
  • Encouraging to team and staff; able to mentor
  • Able to analyze details and strategize for better solutions
  • Availability to work extended hours and varied days during peak times in the season
  • Brings a positive attitude to the job and enjoys working with a diverse group of people
  • Work experience as a Customer Service / Sales trainer or mentor or similar role
  • Physical Requirements

  • Must be able to move, manipulate and operate computer equipment
  • Capable of sitting for prolonged periods of time.
  • Ability to bend, pull and lift (up to 15 lbs. occasionally
  • Benefits

  • Health Insurance (HMO, PPO, HSA)
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account (Medical & Dependent Care)
  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan & Profit Sharing
  • 401(k)
  • Employee Discount
  • Maternity / Paternity / Adoption & Foster Care Leave
  • Company Paid Life Insurance
  • Voluntary Life Insurance
  • Voluntary Pet Insurance
  • Company Paid Short- & Long-Term Disability Insurance
  • Paid Time Off
  • Educational Assistance
  • Johnny's Selected Seeds is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against otherwise qualified applicants on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability or handicap, or veteran status.

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