Closing Date: 28 February 2026
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Collections Agent  Durban
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We are a people orientated business that provides outsourced contact centre solutions and specialises in customer life cycle management. Our people are our most important asset. We create a culture of empowerment and accountability with a focus on skills, talent, and career development for all our people within the business. Our highly engaged environment displays our passion to create a great place for our people to work and it is teamwork that drives our success.Β Β 

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Role Objectives:Β 

  • Answering or making calls to clients to learn about and address their needs, complaints, outstanding debts or other issues with products or services.Β 
  • Responding efficiently and accurately to callers, explaining possible solutions, and ensuring that clients feel supported and valued.Β 
  • Engaging in active listening with callers, confirming or clarifying information and diffusing angry clients, as needed.Β 
  • Building lasting relationships with clients and other call center team members based on trust and reliability.Β 
  • Utilising software, databases, scripts, and tools appropriately.Β 
  • Understanding and striving to meet or exceed call center metrics while providing excellent consistent customer service.Β 
  • Contacting debtors by telephone/digital platforms to enact and negotiate debt recovery.Β 
  • Preventing repeated payment delinquency by negotiating manageable debt payments.Β 
  • Negotiating settlements to receive payment on a certain percentage of the debt.Β 
  • Recording all communications, payment plans agreed to, and amounts paid on CRM.Β 
  • Initiating legal and repossession proceedings if debt recovery fails.Β 

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Required Qualifications:Β 

  • Matric.
  • Clear criminal & credit record

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Required Experience:Β 

  • Minimum of 1 years’ experience in Collections, Energy,Β Β 
  • Previous debt collection / energy experience will be advantageous.Β 
  • Strong Collections service experience.Β 
  • Ability to resolve conflict and diffuse tension.Β 
  • Exceptional telephone manner, customer service skills, active listening skills, verbal, andΒ written communication skills.Β 

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Role Knowledge and Skills Required:Β 

  • Collections agents are customer-facing representatives of their agencies.Β 
  • Negotiation – working with customers to resolve their debts, whether through a payment plan or a lump-sum settlement amount, is a vital part of the collections agent’s role.Β 
  • Persuasion – in addition to negotiation skills, collections agents should be persuasive in explaining why it’s in a customer’s best interest to pay off a particular debt.Β 
  • Patience and diligence – often, collections agents need to be patient and diligent, especially when it comes to tracking down the individuals responsible for paying off a debt as customers may avoid calls from collections agents or quickly hang up.Β 

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IMPORTANT NOTICE:Β Β 

THIS VACANCY IS OPENED TO DURBAN APPLICANTS ONLYΒ 

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Closing Date: 28 February 2026