Leadership Skills:
- Support Team Managers across ~4 teams with 25-50 non-exempt WePay specialists by communicating standards and expectations, and providing timely, constructive feedback on tasks and assignments
- Drive a high-performance culture through proactive performance management coaching
- Work across multiple teams to identify best practices
- Create a culture that attracts and retains top talent
- Establish an environment for inclusion and diversity initiatives
- Be available to teams and others to assist with real time customer issues
- Leads people toward meeting the organization’s vision, mission, and goals
Customer Focus:
- Resolve complex and escalated employee and customer problems and inquires
- Monitor service levels and specialist performance to keep management and specialists aware of email/chat queues waiting to be answered, abandonment rates, real time assistance with specialists who are outside of normal expectations and any system issues that are impacting our customers
- Meet all regulatory timeframes for issue/complaint resolution
Communication Skills:
- Partner with teams to deliver key messages through team huddles, staff meetings, and one on one coaching/development sessions with specialists
- Communicates strategically, using two-way communication to generate enthusiasm and foster an atmosphere receptive to open exchange
- Create development and coaching material to drive performance and presenting the material during monthly development sessions
- Partner with peers and other Merchant groups to effectively influence change to improve the employee and customer experience
Problem Solving Skills:
- Approach escalated problems logically and with good judgment to ensure the appropriate customer outcome
- Make appropriate decisions on behalf of the customer quickly and effectively
- Prioritize work time effectively to ensure efficiency
- Partner with other areas to research complex issues
Analytical Skills:
- Shapes and influences strategy in line with overall functional strategy and objectives
- Leads execution of key projects
- Ability to evaluate and analyze data from multiple sources in a fast paced environment and make decisions based on thorough assessments of the issues and outcomes
- Execution of control initiatives
- Required to abide by all applicable regulatory and department practices and procedures
- Understands broad picture of revenue and expense drivers and influences decisions that impact P&L
Required qualifications, skills, capabilities:
- Minimum of two years of expert customer interaction or customer/client support experience; experience working in a high productivity client contact center preferred.
- Full understanding of Merchant account regulations and standards
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to follow complex methods and procedures in the performance of diverse routine and non-routine tasks
- Ability to plan and prioritize workload to meet deadlines
- Demonstrated analytical and critical thinking skills, ability to anticipate problems and resolve quickly.
- Ability to motivate, coach and develop staff for performance improvement
- Advanced proficiency level in a Microsoft Office environment
- Flexible and adaptable; possess demonstrated change management skills.