Contact Center Sr Manager

This role will be the primary contact for all new hire onboarding in the Contact Center. This leader will partner with a team of experienced coaches to ensure that new members of the organization have a warm, welcoming experience from recruiting and training through successful completion of “on the job” skill building. The role will oversee all facets of customer experience that lead to new hire effectiveness and retention. Successful new hire graduates will be prepared to deliver high quality customer service to increase customer satisfaction and enhance customer relationships. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participate in the new hire interviewing and selection process, ensuring that hiring practices lead to strong candidate experiences and training classes
• Act as an ambassador for the Citizens brand to new colleagues, helping to build enthusiasm for the brand each colleague’s place within the organization
• Develop strong partnerships with key stakeholders, including Recruiting, Learning and Development as well as business line managers
• Deploy a high performing team to ensure all new colleagues develop appropriate skills and knowledge mastery of relevant policy and procedures
• Coach and support colleagues to ensure confidence and capability upon graduation from new hire program
• Utilize colleague feedback and lessons learned to make iterative improvements to program

Qualifications:

• Strong coaching abilities - takes responsibility for coaching to drive performance
• Leadership skills that foster collaboration, respect, and harmony amongst team.  Builds a climate that values collaborative/innovative thinking
• Excellent communication, time management and attention to detail/organizational skills 
• Goal driven while also meeting day to day business needs
• Advanced problem-solving skills.  Ability to help colleagues negotiate through difficult situation with customer recovery as end result
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills
• Ability to multitask and work independently
• Anticipates potential problems or obstacles and takes pre-emptive action

Experience:

Progressive leadership in a Contact Center setting. Experience in training/adult learning preferred.

• Hours & Work Schedule
• Hours per Week: 40
• Work Schedule: Monday Through Friday, 8AM - 4:30PM
• In-office 4 days per week

Equal Employment Opportunity

Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.

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