Team Lead Customer Service

Your Responsibilities

Your ability to build motivate develop and lead a world class Customer Service team that inturn delivers worldclass service to our customers are the most critical success factors in the role. This role is suitable for individuals who enjoy working with others and have proven ability in building and developing a team. They are passionate about delivering outstanding experiences to customers and possess great passion and determination in solving team customer and organizational problems.

Leadership and Team Development:

• Team Performance Management: Provide ongoing constructive feedback coaching and training to improve individual and team performance.
• Employee Engagement: Foster a positive work environment promoting teamwork and addressing any concerns to maintain high levels of employee engagement.
• Employee Development: identify individual development opportunities and provide support and resources for helping team members accomplish their personal and professional goals.
• Goal Setting and Performance Reviews: Establish clear performance expectations and conduct regular performance reviews.

Customer Service Delivery:

• Service Level Management: Ensure customer requests (Phone/Email) are answered promptly and that service level expectations are met.
• Resolving on First Contact: Minimize the need for customers to call back by resolving issues on the first attempt. Identify topics of repeat contact and identify and implement sustainable solutions.
• Deliver and improve Customer Satisfaction: Maintain high levels of customer satisfaction through effective communication and problem resolution. The Team leader understands analyses and uses customer contacts to analyze root causes to customer issues and implements solutions to resolve them.
• Resolve Customer issues Be an escalation point of contact and a subject matter expert when employees and customers need help.

Operational Efficiency:

• Call Quality Monitoring: Regularly monitor calls to ensure that company policies procedures and compliance standards are adhered to. Provides regular coaching to improve performance.
• Productivity Management: Ensures that great customer issues resolution is delivered in alignment with strong efficiency. Identifies ways to improve efficiency of the immediate team and broader organization.
• Staffing: Plans ahead and optimizes real time capacity management to ensure customers receive on time service.

Collaborative problem solving:

• Own Customer issues: identify research and resolve complex customer issues and provide timely and effective solutions to Raisin customers. See the big picture connect the dots to understand the issue and associated issues better. Demonstrate the ability to handle complex customer issues escalations and disputes effectively.
• Decisionmaking: Make informed decisions that align with Raisin policies and benefit both the customer and the organization. Identify process issues and work across functions to find sustainable solutions.

Communication Skills:

• Internal and External Communication: Deliver clear and effective communication within the team and with other stakeholders internally and externally.
• Customer communication: Ensure that communication with customers meets and exceeds customer and brand expectations. Find ways to improve customer communication to improve satisfaction reduce customer complaints and improve customer loyalty.

Your Profile

Experience:

• Financial Service experience is a MUST Experience with a Deposit taking bank and/or fintech preferred.
• 5 years experience with 2 years in a Team Leader role in a Financial Services Service center/Contact center.

Qualification/Skills:

• Bachelors Degree. Additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Proven ability to build motivate and lead a Customer service team. Experience in a remote or hybrid work environment is preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong critical thinking skills to make wellinformed decisions by weighing evidence considering alternatives and anticipating potential consequences.
• Ability to interact with customers while staying calm under pressure in volatile and demanding situations.
• Proven ability to build positive relationships and find agreeable solutions in tough/conflict situations.
• Strong analytical and data management skills.

Join our mission join our team and grow with us!

At Raisin we care about each other and it is one of our top priorities to foster an open and caring environment in which everyone feels welcome and comfortable. Our culture is strongly driven by our ambitious team who are at the heart of our success.

As part of our US team you will benefit from:

• Flexible working hours and 28 vacation days.
• Employee Development Budget of $2200 and 4 full training days per year.
• Access to Babbel for continuous learning.
• Company 401k contribution of 5%.
• Healthcare coverage contribution including medical dental and vision.
• Commuter benefits and flexible working from home policy.
• Regular team events and yearly Summer and Winter Party.