This is a highly autonomous role within a fast moving sales contact centre environment, responsible for managing team sales performance, maintaining efficient processes and delivering exceptional service.
Key Accountabilities
• Day to day operational management of Corporate Partners, Team Leaders and Customer Service Representatives.
• Accountable for driving productivity KPI’s through effective team and individual performance management.
• Ultimate responsibility to manage cases around employee conduct and capability and authority to dismiss in appropriate cases.
• Carry out rigorous Performance Management for direct reports during the year. Act as mentor and coach to Customer Service Team Leaders.
• Manage day to day operational performance within FSA guidelines, including risk, audit and quality requirements to deliver a high and consistent quality of customer engagement supporting your customers through an effective branded service delivery.
• Provide high standards of sales and service delivery to your customers by ensuring agreed sales and service processes are managed effectively.
• Maximise agreed Sales and Revenue targets by active management of daily, weekly, monthly outputs ensuring performance is reviewed, success is celebrated and non-performance is action planned.
• To be accountable for ensuring agreed resource is managed and in the right place at the right time interacting with our Capacity Planning team in order to achieve agreed Service Levels.
• Ensure written/telephone complaints procedure is followed in accordance with best practice guidelines and that service standards are met by effective management of escalated complaints in business area.
• Effectively communicate change and processes to team and have a structured approach for communication in one to ones and team meetings.
Skills, knowledge and behaviour
Skills
• Ability to lead, motivate, enthuse and inspire others to excellence
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to communicate confidently at all levels
• Strong influencing skills
• Highly motivated and self-driven
• Excellent leadership and management skills
• Ability to deal with difficult people
• Excellent Presentation skills
• Effective planning and prioritisation of work
• Experience of dealing effectively with a variety of performance management issues
• Numerate with strong analytical skills
Experience
• Accountability for operational teams in a call centre environment
• Experience of using call centre technologies to maximise performance is critical
• Proven track record in managing people and processes providing advice and guidance to first line supervisors
• Experience of insurance / financial services is desirable