Team Leader
Experience: Job Code: REQ-017614
Sagility
job Details
Job title
Team Leader
About Sagility
Sagility combines industry-leading technology and transformation-driven BPM services with decades of healthcare domain expertise to help clients draw closer to their members. The company optimizes the entire member/patient experience through service offerings for clinical, case management, member engagement, provider solutions, payment integrity, claims cost containment, and analytics. Sagility has more than 25,000 employees across 5 countries.
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Job Description:
Education:
Minimum 4 year college degree with degree in Management, Life Science, or Marketing.
Experience:
1+ years experience in customer service, call center or related field, including 12 months in a supervisor capacity. Healthcare Industry Preferred.
Mandatory Skills:
Expert communication skills, both written and verbal.
Computer / Digital Literacy such as Microsoft Office Suite, data entry, using multiple software applications simultaneously, strong general computer skills, and high comfort-level in intranet/internet navigation.
Job Knowledge
Sense of Urgency
Passion for Excellence
Working in Team/Interpersonal Skills
Work Organization
People Management/Team Orientation
Drive for Results/Execution
Thriving in Change
Expertise/Analytical Skills
Product Knowledge
Problem Solving
Presentation Skills
Facilitation Skills
Coaching
Process Improvement
Performance Management
Discipline Management
Roles & responsibilities:
Ensure that Team Members meet productivity standards.
Assist Shift Managers in ensuring that client service levels are met or exceeded.
Report to Shift Manager any health/safety and performance concerns that may affect agent's fulfillment of role in Operations.
Monitor service calls, e-mails, and other contact methods to observe employee's demeanor, technical accuracy, and conformity to company policies.
Monitor individual Team Members' statistics for Attendance, AHT, Productivity, and Quality.
Recommend and apply corrective measures for Team Members who do not meet minimum performance metrics.
Assign reports or projects to Team Members as needed.
Work with Team Members to resolve grievances.
Meet with team at least once a week to discuss issues and share best practices
Responsible in cascading policy/procedure updates and/or training flashes to the agents/CSRs.
Communicate resignations from the team and other agent concerns to HR.
Update employee attendance record in Employee Self Service (ESS) and make sure that records will be sent to payroll timely.
Escalate all employee concerns to HR Business Partner and Shift Manager
Coordinate with Shift Manager and Workforce department about team member's shift, days off, and leaves (vacation leave, sick leave, maternity/paternity, etc.)
Escalate Quality related issues to Shift Manager
Note all situations that arise that were not covered in training or in previous updates. Work with the Shift Manager to ensure that all other teams, the Quality Assurance, and the Training Teams are informed so repeat questions do not arise.
Determine work procedures and expedite workflow.
Recommend new or modifications to existing procedures to ensure Continuous Process Improvement (CPI).
Inform the Shift Manager when the systems needed to handle calls are not working effectively.
Recommends corrective services within client limits to adjust customer complaints.
Strives to help the entire team when in need of assistance.
Use data from reports on Attendance, AHT, Productivity, and Quality to coach CSRs towards better performance.
Incorporate personal observations and documented critical incidents in coaching sessions to further improve CSR performance.
Work with Escalation Agents to prepare them for future Team Leader positions.
Identify team members who display potential for other positions within the company. Assign tasks or projects to further develop that potential.
Prepare a Performance Assessment/Appraisal (PA) for each associate at the end of each year.
Take escalated calls from Escalation Agents or from CSAs in the absence of EAs.
The above statements are intended to indicate the general nature and level of work being performed by employees within this classification. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this job. Employees in this job may perform other duties as assigned.
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