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About this Customer Support Specialist role at Remote Recruitment

Remote Recruitment · Remote · South Africa

Salary: R29 000 per month

Remote Recruitment is hiring a Customer Support Specialist to work from home in South Africa for a UK business. You will handle customer questions across email, live chat and phone, and take ownership of problems until they are properly resolved.

Full-time and 100% remote, working 09:00–17:00 UK time (11:00–19:00 SAST).

Key responsibilities

  • Respond to customer queries over email, live chat and phone
  • Investigate issues thoroughly rather than passing them along
  • Keep the ticketing system tidy and up to date
  • Write clear help articles and canned responses for common questions
  • Spot patterns in complaints and feed them back to the product and operations teams
  • Follow up with customers after resolution to confirm they are happy

What you will need

  • Experience with customer support in a service, retail, SaaS or contact centre environment
  • Familiarity with helpdesk tools such as Zendesk, Freshdesk or Intercom
  • Excellent written English and a friendly, plain-speaking tone
  • Good judgement about when to escalate and when to solve it yourself
  • A quiet home workspace, reliable computer and stable fibre internet
  • A backup power solution for load shedding

What is on offer

  • A permanent, fully remote position with a UK employer
  • UK business hours with a clear finish time
  • Training on the product and the tools you will use
  • A path into senior support, quality or team leadership

If you like solving problems properly the first time, apply through Remote Recruitment.

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About Remote Recruitment

We connect top-tier South African talent with leading UK and European companies through remote work opportunities. As a specialist recruitment firm, we help businesses scale with skilled professionals while providing job seekers with life-changing career prospects.

Our expertise spans technology, finance, marketing, HR, and business support, ensuring the perfect match between talent and employer needs. We prioritise culture fit, career growth, and seamless remote hiring—empowering professionals to thrive in global roles.

Join us and take your career beyond borders!

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