Careers At Sagility

Team Leader

Job Code : REQ-007935
Quezon City Fully Onsite

Job Description

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.

International/Global
Customer support-Enquiry
Claims Lifeline

Job title:

Team Leader

Job Description:

Duties and Responsibilities below are applicable for both in-office-based and telework based employees:

  • Understand  Sagility Business Strategy and managed care direction.
  • Uphold the  Sagility and Sagility Core Values at all times
  • Utilize and be familiar with current system functions, applications and enhancements.
  • Maintain a high level of professionalism towards peers and customers at all times
  • Maintain the highest level of integrity with the information used and divulged in calls or correspondence.
  • Perform tasks in an efficient and effective manner with regard to the delivery of service requirements required by the client, project or company

  

Internal Customer Relations

  • Communicate resignations in the team and other agent concerns to HR.
  • Submit employee attendance records to payroll.  Escalate all payroll concerns to his / her Shift Manager.
  • Escalate Quality related issues to his / her Shift Manager.

Process Improvement

  • 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 Group, and the Training Team 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.

Staff Development

  • Use data from reports on Attendance, AHT, Productivity, and Quality to coach agents towards better performance.
  • Incorporate personal observations and documented critical incidents in coaching sessions to further improve agents? 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 (PA) for each agent at the end of each year.

Staff Management

  • Ensure that team members meet productivity standards.
  • Assist Shift Managers in ensuring that client service levels are met or exceeded.
  • 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.

Others

  • Take escalated calls from Escalation Agents or from agents in the absence of EAs.
  • Take calls when service levels demand it.
  • Perform tasks assigned by his / her Shift Manager.
  • Prepare composite reports from individual reports of subordinates.

Telework Functions:

  • Supervisor will continue to provide support and handle supervisor calls whenever required.
  • Regular coaching must be scheduled and practiced even remotely. Supervisors will need to coordinate with work force for the schedule and accordingly arrange the meeting with the agent over the phone or through skype or MS Teams via Citrix.
  • Ensuring records such as Employee Personal Information and Contact numbers, Equipment, Tokens, etc. are updated and well communicated with his/her manager.
  • Supervisors are to keep their teams informed of updates and announcements. Communicating regularly with the teleworker to ensure he/she has the information needed to successfully perform his/her job.
  • Supervisors must initiate, manage and monitor chat support group for agents or teams of agents in a shift.
  • Supervisors will continue to manage their team?s attendance and coordinate with workforce management for their agent?s work schedule and other activities such as coaching, days off, vacation leave, and sick leave.
  • Teleworkers are expected to meet the same performance requirements as their in-office-based colleagues.
  • Should be available during scheduled work hours and ensures they understand their manager's expectations for accessibility and response time when they are working off-site.
  • Teleworkers are to meet deadlines and ensure achievement of set targets.
  • Teleworkers should promptly respond to calls, e-mails, and instant messages.
  • Teleworkers ensure background noises and distractions are kept to a minimum.
  • Teleworkers have to be available for contact and communication during the periods in which home- based work is carried out.
  • Teleworkers complete periodic reviews with process managers to know their progress and provide any support or performance interventions
  • Teleworkers are to comply and be familiar with all teleworking and in-office policies and procedures set forth by the client, the company and the program.
  • Teleworkers have adhered to Attendance and Work Hours policies set forth by the client and company.
  • Teleworkers must perform work during scheduled work hours only.
  • Teleworkers need to account for and report time spent the same way they would at the regular worksite, or according to the terms of the company
  • Compliance to work hours must be adhered.  Holiday/Leave shall be as per current/regular work hour policy.  Extra login must be as per policy/statutory requirement.
  • Use the company attendance system and ensure that they are approved before the given timeline every month which shall be used to compute the attendance for payroll processing
  • Teleworkers are to ensure that responsibility to care for children or other family or household members or engaging in any other non-work-related interests will not compete with the employee?s work requirements during the designated work hours.
  • For Teleworkers: In the event a teleworker has a change of address for their home worksite, they should notify the designated supervisor in writing at least 7 days prior to the change of address.
  • Teleworkers are to report incidences to immediate supervisor and/or the proper authority for immediate resolution
  • Teleworkers should report back to office for work when advised by Supervisor. This can be advised based on business needs, Continuous disruption to work at home, performance challenges, Customer complaints and failing compliance audit.

GENERAL SAFETY AND SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • In-office-based and teleworkers Protects the organization?s assets by upholding the principles of the Quality Information Security Management System (QISMS).
  • In-office-based and teleworkers ensures confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information critical to fulfilling the organization?s business functions.
  • In-office-based and teleworkers reports Information Security related incidents without any delay to the right authority.

  • In-office-based and teleworkers remain compliant with the relevant business, local and international regulatory and legislative requirements particularly the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Gramm Leach Bliley Act or 1999, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Standards of PCI DSS.
  • In-office-based and teleworkers are to strictly comply to the Clean Room Policy set by the Client and the Company. This includes but not limited to the following:
    • All portable devices are prohibited from entering the clean room environment. This includes, but is not limited to, mobile devices (i.e. phones, tablets, laptops, etc.), printers, USB storage devices and thumb drives, electronic media recording devices or image/screen capture devices.
    • For Teleworkers: Exceptions to this requirement (i.e. utilizing personal laptop or cell phone for connection) are granted on limited basis with protocols in place to track and monitor the use of the portable devices.
    • For Teleworkers: A cell phone may be used to access a mobile hotspot for connectivity purposes
    • For Teleworkers: A cell phone may be used to communicate with a Team Leader or Support Technician
    • Copy/Paste and print screen functionality is not allowed
    • Users are not permitted to use paper, pen, pencil and printed material in the clean room
    • For Teleworkers: Where connectivity is not directly through Sagility?s network, all access is achieved through virtual machines or application virtualization (i.e. Citrix or VM Ware)
    • Token hardware will be safeguarded from theft, damage, loss or misuse.

General Safety and Security

  • Protects the organization?s assets by upholding the principles of the Quality Information Security Management System (QISMS).
  • Ensures confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information critical to fulfilling the organization?s business functions.

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Competency requirements below are applicable for both in-office-based and telework based employees:

With Basic Competency Level in ff:

  • Fiscal Management

With Moderate Competency Level in ff:

  • Change Management

With Excellent Competency Level in ff:

  • Product Knowledge
  • Expertise/ Analytical Skills
  • Drive for Results/ Execution Communication Skill (Spoken)
  • Communication Skill (Written)
  • Customer Service Orientation
  • Computer Literacy
  • Job Knowledge
  • Sense of Urgency
  • Passion for Excellence
  • Working in Teams/ Interpersonal Skills
  • Work Organization
  • Thriving in Change
  • Problem Solving
  • Facilitation Skills
  • Coaching
  • Performance Management
  • Presentation Skills
  • Business Acumen
  • Conflict Management
  • Discipline Management
  • Planning, Organizing, Controlling

  • Able to establish, implement and continuously improve the quality information security policies assigned to him / her.
  • Able to establish structure and procedures to protect classified information.
  • Able to report information security related incidents without any delay to the right authority.

     Example: All information-related incidents, losses, weaknesses and software/hardware malfunctions, breaches of confidentiality.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

Reports to:  Shift Manager and/or Operations Manager

Education and/or Experience:

College Degree (any field)

Reasoning Ability: Must be able to problem solve, and determine problems, also to recommend solutions. To seek out better methods of training classes to operate.

Employees must be in good standing for any consideration.

Employees on any performance and/or attendance improvement action plan are not eligible for career progression.

Office-Based Work Environment: The work environment consists of a professional office workplace.

Telework environment: The work environment should be incompliance with the Clean Room Policy set forth by the Client. Teleworkers must agree to comply with all  Sagility policies and procedures regarding the safekeeping of confidential information. This includes but not limited to the following:

  • Their workspace must be isolated from the rest of their home and used exclusively for Sagility business.
  • They must make sure that other people in the home cannot see confidential Sagility information at any time.
  • They must ensure that household noises cannot be heard as they conduct Sagility business by telephone.
  • The phone call conversations must not be heard by others in the house.
  • Teleworker?s computer must be password protected and if they leave the workspace, they should lock their screen or shut down their computer.  If company documents or equipment is accessible to others in the household when they are not working, they must be secured in locked file cabinets if possible.

Home Inspection for Teleworkers:  Teleworkers must agree to allow their managers and/or the program?s Compliance Team to inspect the workspace in their home.   This will allow them to work together to ensure the workspace is safe, private, and secure.

Physical demands: The work may sometimes require travelling to the different sites that caters to Sagility client depending on the business needs. Employees may be required to work during holidays or weekends and/or extended hours depending on the needs of the business.

Location:

Quezon City, Bridgetowne ZetaPhilippines