RELX

Customer Services Consultant-1

RELX  •  Durban, ZA (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

Are you ready to combine outstanding customer support with a commercial mindset to create value in every customer interaction?

Do you enjoy understanding customer needs, solving problems, and identifying solutions that support customer growth?

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (http://www.relx.com), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles (https://stories.relx.com/responsible-ai-principles/index.html).

About the Role

You will support existing and prospective customers across phone, email, and chat while identifying opportunities to recommend products and solutions that meet their needs. You will take ownership of customer issues and sales opportunities, maintain accurate CRM records, and collaborate with internal teams to support customer retention and growth.

Responsibilities

  • Handle customer inquiries via phone, email, and chat in a professional and timely manner.
  • Resolve customer issues, complaints, and service requests with a high level of accuracy and ownership, escalating complex or unresolved issues when required.
  • Provide clear, accurate information on products, services, pricing, and policies and follow up with customers to ensure satisfactory resolution and ongoing engagement.
  • Conduct outbound and inbound sales conversations with existing and prospective customers, identify customer needs, and recommend suitable products or solutions.
  • Meet or exceed individual and team-based sales and performance targets and convert service interactions into value-adding sales opportunities where appropriate.
  • Manage the sales process from initial engagement to close, build and maintain a pipeline of prospects, and follow up on qualified leads.
  • Build strong, long-term customer relationships that support retention and growth and maintain strong product and industry knowledge to effectively educate customers.
  • Ensure CRM systems are consistently and accurately updated, adhere to compliance, quality assurance, and data protection standards, and collaborate with internal teams to enhance customer experience and commercial outcomes.

Requirements

  • Previous experience in customer support, call centre, or telesales sales-based roles.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills and a confident phone manner with the ability to influence and persuade.
  • Customer-centric mindset with a sales-driven approach.
  • Ability to multitask and work under pressure.
  • Proficiency with CRM systems and basic computer applications.
  • Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills, active listening, and effective objection handling.
  • Strong problem-solving and negotiation abilities, with good time management and attention to detail.
  • Resilience, adaptability, and a continuous improvement mindset.Work in a Way That Works for You

Working Pattern

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

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RELX

About RELX

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.

Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.

Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.

RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs more than 36,000 people over 40% of whom are in North America.

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Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
London, GB
Year Founded
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Website
relx.com
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