Ticketing Intern – West Ham United FC – London

Job Description
To support to the Women’s Ticketing and Group Bookings Manager with the West Ham United’s Women’s team ticketing requirements. This includes processing season and match tickets together with handling supporter’s enquiries by phone and email. In addition, you will support the Women’s Ticketing Manager on match days at the Chigwell Construction Stadium in Dagenham, where the West Ham Women play home games. Using excellent communication skills, you will provide a high level of customer service.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• To consistently deliver a customer service to an exceptional standard
• Sell tickets over the phone
• To maintain and promote the image of West Ham Football Club
• Work with the ticket office team to ensure quality across the department is of a high standard
• Deal with enquires by phone and email in a timely manner
• Collect the personal information (e.g. phone number and address) to high level of accuracy
• Be aware of all ticketing information and any changes to information, to be ready to inform customers when necessary
• Proactively sell season ticket packages and other ticket products
• When necessary, deal with complaints, refunds and similar tasks in a professional manner
• Be forward thinking and suggest innovative and original ideas that can help make the ticket office more successful, effective and efficient
• Be self-evaluative to ensure you can continuously improve on your own performance

PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential (E) Desirable (D) Trainable (T)
Education/Qualifications/Training:
• 5 GCSES A-C Grade (D)
• Excellent I.T. skills (D)

Specific Experience:
• Ticket office or contact centre experience (D)
• Experience working within a sporting organisation (D)
Abilities/Skills/Knowledge:
• Ability to follow instructions
• Able to use initiative
• Good time management skills
• Ability to work calmly under pressure
• Ability to work well as a member of a team and as an individual
• Exceptional communication skills, especially on the phone (E)
• Have a strong work ethic, can-do attitude
We are committed to the principle of equality and equal opportunities in employment. We will actively promote equality and equal opportunities in our business to ensure that individuals receive treatment that is fair and equitable and consistent with their relevant aptitudes, potential skills and abilities. Employees will be recruited and selected, promoted and trained on the basis of objective criteria.

How to apply
https://www.careers.whufc.com/
Contact
West Ham United, London Stadium, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, E20 2ST
020 8548 2748
humanresources@westhamunited.co.uk

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