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Customer Support Associate (Dutch Speaking)

Bloom & Wild

Amsterdam
Intern
0-2 years experience
Hybrid

Key Skills

Dutch Fluency
English Fluency
Customer Service
Zendesk
Slack
Problem Solving
Empathy
Communication Skills
Time Management
Adaptability

Job Description

bloomon is turning the flower industry on its head - for the better. How? By disrupting the traditional supply chain! We skip the auction and wholesale, to shorten the journey for our flowers. And we harness technology, brand and innovation to deliver gifts and subscriptions that delight our customers across Europe. We launched in Amsterdam in 2014, and in 2021 joined forces with Bloom & Wild, the UK's fastest growing ecommerce company (according to the Financial Times). Our group is backed by top tier investors and is now home to a family of 3 strong brands, Bloom & Wild, bloomon and Bergamotte. Together, we’ve delivered over 20 million orders (and counting!), making us the largest direct to consumer flower business in Europe. Our vision is to create the destination for making life a little more thoughtful and beautiful. And we won't stop at flowers and plants. Starting with the Bloom & Wild brand, we're expanding our gifting offering to other categories like cakes, candles and cocktails. This is all part of our ambition to build Europe's #1 direct to consumer gifting destination. We care wildly about people and our planet. Which is why we’re so proud to be a certified B Corp™ - committed to making long-term positive change for our community, and the world around us. 🛠️ Customer Delight Team @ Bloom & Wild Group With the same care we are watering our flowers and arranging our beautiful bouquets, we are looking after our customers and helping them out. Do you love to be in contact with people, take problems seriously, and strive for solutions? Do you have a friendly personality and like to make people happy? Are you proactive and like to work in a dynamic environment? Join our Customer Delight Team as a Customer Delight Associate and bring joy to customers' days with every interaction! In this role, you'll focus on supporting both our bloomon and Bloom & Wild brands (can be London or Amsterdam based), delivering exceptional service that leaves a lasting impression. As a part of the Dutch Customer Delight team, you will handle requests from Dutch-speaking customers, requiring flexibility and adaptability to meet diverse needs. In this role, you will be responsible for our Dutch customers via email, whatsapp, live chat and phone. From time to time we will also ask you to jump into our Dutch email queue (we have a great translation tool) and all English queues. It is essential that you can think in a solution-oriented way and are able to work independently. For this position, it is also a must that you are empathetic and can put yourself in our customers' shoes. You will carry out varied work and be given a lot of responsibility straight away. Being organised, proactive and ready to hit the ground running will be essential to success in the role. We are a hybrid team working across the UK, Netherlands and Germany and take time to regularly connect remotely and in person. Please note that this role requires fluent Dutch language skills. ⚙️ What you'll be doing: A typical day sees you actively engaging with customers through various channels in Zendesk, working to resolve their issues, communicating with colleagues on Slack for support, and completing associated admin duties You’ll also spend part of your week attending company and team meetings, sharing feedback with colleagues, and spending time with your manager evaluating your performance and working on growth opportunities within your role Working hours for this role will be with shifts between 09:00 and 22:30 Monday-Sunday and may change when required to match the business needs. This also includes bank holidays. Flexibility is required for this role. We expect you to work at least one evening shift per week (delivery nights are Wednesday - Friday) and in a pattern across weekends too ✅ You’ll love this role if you… Strong verbal communication and writing skills in Dutch (fluent) as well as English as you will work to support customers in both languages A background in a customer service-oriented position is a plus Comfortable working towards quality and productivity targets A solution-oriented and friendly attitude as well as a kind nature Proactive and definite ‘can do’ attitude Available part-time (32 hours +) Please note that this role is hybrid - based in Amsterdam These are some of the skills and experience we think will enable success in this role, but please don’t worry if you are missing some of these. We’re committed to building a team made up of different strengths, skills and experiences, so if you’re excited about our values, passionate about what you do and would like to join us in doing things more thoughtfully, we’d love to hear from you. 🏡 Belonging at Bloom & Wild Group We know that we learn through our differences, and building a diverse team has always been central to creating the best experience for our customers. We value all backgrounds, perspectives, ideas and experiences, and encourage everyone to share their opinions openly within our caring and inclusive team. 🧭 Our ways of working We do things a little bit differently. From inventing letterbox flowers to founding The Thoughtful Marketing Movement. We’re big on collaboration, empathy, knowledge sharing and growth, and our values drive our priorities every day: Lead change for good: we have the guts to try new things and step up to do what matters most Think deeply, act swiftly: we make sure there’s thoughtful rationale behind our approach and always act swiftly to implement ideas Care wildly: we pour care and creativity into everything we do and pay attention to the things that make a difference Stay open, be curious: we’re open about what we’re doing and why, and we welcome challenges from each other We really believe in the power of face-to-face connections - be that through a shared project, a learning and development opportunity, or an after work social - and trust our teams to make the right decisions (for them and us) about where and how they work each day. Our working patterns are flexible and vary across the business, depending on the type of work, need for collaboration, and personal and wellbeing circumstances. 🌟 (Some of) The good stuff To care wildly for our customers, firstly we care wildly for our teams. We work hard to craft a culture of thoughtfulness and care, where there is a strong sense of inclusion and belonging, enabling all of our people to thrive and be successful each day. 🌻 Work that works for you Work Abroad for up to 30 days each year Share in our success with a choice to take equity options from day 1 1 day per year to volunteer on a project that’s close to your heart We’ll support your commute to our office and site locations. Depending on your journey to work, this may include a Swapfiets, an NS business card or expense reimbursement 🌴 Time off 24 vacation days and an option to buy an extra 5 each year Happiness days (1 extra day each quarter for your personal ‘me time’) 1 celebration day per year, to celebrate a holiday that’s important to you Flexible bank holidays - trade a bank holiday for another day that fits your beliefs, values and celebration calendar 🌱 Health and wellbeing Mental health support through Open Up, including access to online therapy sessions Allies and champions groups Mental Health First Aiders and awareness training for our managers In person and virtual yoga every week Our office kitchen is stocked with healthy drinks and snacks to keep you going Workplace pension contributions 🌳 Growth & Development A flexible training framework for every stage of your career development through our Bloom & Learn programme Internal & external Speaker Sessions on a variety of different inspirational topics 💐 Moments that matter We love having lunch together! We offer daily fresh and healthy lunch options at our locations in Amsterdam and Amstelveen, A BBQ-worthy rooftop terrace (Amsterdam HQ) Social & wellbeing monthly calendar We love to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries and other important milestones! Summer and End of Year events, team lunches and post-peak celebrations Irresistible discounts on our products, blooms & subscriptions! 🫱‍🫲 Getting hired We know that job searching can be daunting, and we want to do everything we can to ensure that your experience with us is a good one. Interviewing is a 2-way process, and we’re keen to answer all of the questions you have, so that you can be sure (and excited!) that we’re the right move for you. We believe in leading change for good, so do let us know if there’s anything we can do to support your application process. Also, if you have any feedback, please help us to improve our candidate experience by sharing (anonymously) here. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Core Responsibilities

Provide exceptional support to Dutch-speaking customers via email, WhatsApp, live chat, and phone for the bloomon and Bloom & Wild brands. Resolve customer issues using Zendesk and collaborate with team members via Slack to ensure customer delight.

Requirements

Candidates must be fluent in both Dutch and English with a solution-oriented and empathetic attitude. Availability for part-time work (32+ hours) including evening and weekend shifts is required.

Benefits

  • Work Abroad up to 30 days per year
  • Equity Options
  • Volunteer Day
  • Commute Support
  • 24 Vacation Days
  • Option to buy 5 extra vacation days
  • Happiness Days
  • Celebration Day
  • Flexible Bank Holidays
  • Mental Health Support
  • Online Therapy Sessions
  • Yoga Classes
  • Workplace Pension Contributions
  • Training Framework
  • Daily Fresh and Healthy Lunch
  • Product Discounts

About Bloom & Wild

Industry: Retail

Company size: 201-500 employees

Bloom & Wild is re-inventing the $60B global flower industry. Over a billion flower exchanges take place every year and industry satisfaction levels are low. Driven by our core belief that you can never care too much or be too thoughtful, we do things a little differently. From inventing letterbox flowers to founding The Thoughtful Marketing Movement. And we’ve seen impressive traction to date. We are Europe’s largest direct to consumer flower company. As the inventor of letterbox flowers, Bloom & Wild is powered by great ideas that are rooted in continuously improving the experience for our customers. On a mission to make sending and receiving flowers the joy it should be for both the sender and the recipient, we promise beautiful, brilliantly-designed letterbox surprises and make-a-statement bouquets. Our flowers are sent as the freshest buds, carefully packed and ready to bloom for arrangements that last. The result is almost 60k five star reviews and the status of the UK’s most-loved online florist. Since launching in 2013 we’ve raised £126m of venture capital and private equity funding from investors including General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Burda Principal Investments and MMC Ventures. We’ve been named one of the 5 fastest growing tech companies in Europe and are alumni of Tech Nation’s Future Fifty. We were also one of the Sunday Times Top 100 Small Companies to Work For 2020. We’ve got a brilliant ideas-led innovation culture. And we’re looking for people from all backgrounds to help drive our next exciting stage of growth. If you’re interested in joining us, please take a look at our open roles on our jobs tab. Bloom & Wild acquired bloomon in April 2021 and Bergamotte in July 2021, cementing our position as Europe's leading online flower company. Together, we are active in 8 countries. We are home to a family of 3 strong brands, Bloom & Wild, bloomon and Bergamotte.

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