Director, Member Care Center
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What will your day look like?
You will be responsible for the strategic leadership and oversight of Alliant’s telephone channels and related phone functions. The incumbent is responsible for the overall direction of the call center to ensure an outstanding member experience, improved call efficiency, low abandonment, increased share of wallet and employee product knowledge, training and engagement.
The phone channel serves as the primary “branch” for the High Digital Transactor segment and PIM target market segment, which are the market segments critical to Alliant’s long-term strategy success. Resources to do the job require superior critical thinking skills, performance management and employee development practices with comprehensive experience in call center technologies and practices. The Director, Member Care must be passionate about the voice of the member and enhancing the member experience.
Responsibilities
Do you see yourself doing this?
- Set the standards and guidelines of the Member Care Center function to continually enhance operations, team performance and member experience
- Champion member success measurements and service level agreements that properly monitor success for the member care center
- Ensure appropriate resources are available to meet changing requirements and volume to meet performance objectives
- Leverage customer insights and root cause analytics to identify companywide improvements and present these to Senior Stakeholders
- Work effectively with peers and influence member improvements to drive an effective member experience
- Work collaboratively with marketing team to ensure messaging and brand alignment
- Monitor call industry sales and service trends and seek out best practices to enhance service and sales excellence, with focus on leading a best in class contact center
- Accountable for ensuring full regulatory compliance and legal requirements are adhered to through required standards and processes while ensuring that all risk issues and events are comprehensively captured and closed within established target dates
- Develop improvements, embed change to continually enhance the member experience
- Accountable for ensuring a high quality, consistent and compliant member experience
- Ensure staff is licensed for both P&C and NMLS licensing and CE requirements are met
- Lead the Member Care Center team in fostering positive member relationships via phone and IVR interactions
- Oversee vendor relationships for overflow/afterhours partnership, sales tracking and referral systems, and other related partnerships that enable service and relationship excellence
- Develop and analyze key metrics to ensure individual and team goals are met while being accountable for improving key customer metrics such as NPS, call quality and operating costs
- Empower and engage care center leaders to develop a highly-skilled team of sales and service consultants to provide tailored product recommendations and meaningful advice to existing and prospective members
- Lead the member communication strategy within the Member Care Center and ensure all communications effectively represent the Alliant brand
- Establish the Member Care business plan which is designed to grow balances and deepen existing member relationships through product cross-sales and targeted member solutions; this includes the establishment of sales goals and incentive plans
- Establish objectives, set goals and hold people accountable through clear, effective, timely and constructive feedback
- Drive a consultative approach within all interactions with members to drive satisfaction while deepening share of wallet, where appropriate
- Provide business vision by creating imagery and transparency in the possibilities, opportunities and direction of the future
- Demonstrate courage, ability and agility to understand and address organizational transition in real-time; establishing expectations for the unexpected
- Capture, analyze, and understand the internal environment, team dynamics, and talent capabilities to address organizational refinement, agility and growth
- Champion Employee/Internal Customer Engagement, employee development and all cultural hallmarks through a strong leadership signature and a growing command of Alliant’s leadership competencies
- Continually assess and provide discerning development, insightful coaching and talent utilization/optimization of subordinate leaders of others
- Apply High Performance Management practices in leading an engaged workforce in order to effectively leverage the full potential and talent of the function
- Provide a structural and consistent approach to ensure that individual development plans are in place, performance management is consistent, performance management process is respected and followed, and coaching and feedback are provided on a regular and dynamic basis
- Lead people and system resource optimization strategy and make certain achievement of optimal service levels
Qualifications
What makes you a great fit?
You’ll be a great fit if in addition to the Completion of a Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing or a related field, required, Master’s degree preferred, and you have:
- 10+ years’ experience in a senior leadership role within a call center, required
- Experience working in financial services or other regulatory industries, preferred
- Superior written and verbal communication skills, required
- Excellent presentation and facilitation skills, required
- High professional standards regarding relationship management, collaboration, internal and external customer service, required
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment as a collaborative, inclusive, and flexible team member
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, critical thinking and decision making skills
- Strong strategic, creative and conceptual abilities
- Exceptional follow-through and project management skills
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Products: Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
- Flexibility in work hours and availability, especially during major projects
When you’re happy, we’re happy!
As a thank you for joining our team, you’ll benefit from:
- Competitive medical, dental, and free vision benefits
- Competitive compensation plan
- Contributions towards gym memberships
- Generous PTO and banking holidays off