Customer Service Agent (Pet Nutrition)

Our client is a leading European provider of premium natural pet nutrition, focused on supporting pet health and wellbeing through high-quality, minimally processed food. The business offers a broad range of fresh and gently cooked meals, functional snacks, and supplements, combining quality ingredients with nutritional expertise to deliver healthy and nutritious solutions for pets.

Role overview

As Customer Service Agent you will be the voice of our brands for pet owners, trade customers and marketplace buyers. You’ll resolve queries across email, chat, social and phone, process B2B orders for our client’s shop, manage subscriptions, and contact customers who abandoned their basket to help them complete their order. You’ll work across multiple brands, switching tone of voice as needed, and use AI tools every day to work faster and more accurately. This role is central to keeping customers happy, loyal and coming back.

Our client’s approach to AI

Every role in this team is expected to use AI as a daily working tool — not occasionally, not reluctantly, and not because someone else will upskill them. AI proficiency in your own domain is a baseline expectation, not a differentiator. The “AI in this role” section below sets out the specific tools and use cases relevant to this function. These are not aspirational — they reflect how the role is designed to operate from day one.

Job Type: Full Time/Permanent

Location: Cape Town

Workplace: Onsite

Focus areas: Customer support, Outbound sales, B2B order processing, Subscriptions, Marketplace

Reports to: Team Lead Customer Service

Requirements

• 1+ years in customer service, ideally in e-commerce, D2C, retail or a contact centre
• Experience with a helpdesk tool; Gorgias experience is advantageous
• Familiarity with Shopify orders and draft orders is advantageous
• Experience with Klaviyo or Amazon Seller Central is a plus
• Experience with outbound calling, telesales or sales targets is a plus
• Comfortable using AI tools in day-to-day work
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Customer obsessed — genuinely enjoys helping people and solving problems
• A clear, warm communicator in writing and on the phone
• Confident with outbound calls and comfortable working towards sales targets
• Detail-oriented — accurate with orders, refunds and records
• Organised — manages a busy queue and switches between brands and channels without losing quality
• Interested in pets and natural pet nutrition
• Uses AI as a daily working tool — willing to learn and apply new tools