Team Leader, Insurance Operations - Toronto, Canada - Foresters Financial Services, Inc.

Foresters Financial Services, Inc.
Foresters Financial Services, Inc.
Verified Company
Toronto, Canada

1 month ago

Sophia Lee

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Role Title

Team Leader, Insurance Operations

Purpose of role


Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

  • Build, manage and sustain a high performing service team ensuring that service and quality objectives are being attained and maintained on a consistent basis.
  • Ensure the highest level of customer service and facilitate all actions necessary including research and follow up to positively satisfy customer needs. This includes building and forging strong relationships with field partners and internal customers.
  • Ensure team members are trained and fully competent in all the required functions and companyapproved technologies and tools to effectively assist, support and resolve all customer inquiries.
  • Provide leadership, coaching, and mentoring to the staff to develop their competencies and position them for success.
  • Support a positive, motivating work environment that values the people and encourages participation, creativity, learning and accountability.
  • Manage all scheduling, phone coverage and workflow for the US Disbursement team, ensuring daily workflow is managed within compliance, audit, quality and SLA standards. Customer Service Team Leads monitor associate calls for quality standards, providing coaching and constructive feedback to associates
  • Conduct gap analysis, root cause and validation for continuous improvement opportunities.
  • Initiate and implement process recommendations, with appropriate approval. Act as a change sponsor to ensure successful implementation of new processes, procedures, systems, etc. Facilitate feedback from Team members to oneup Manager.
  • Handle escalation resolution with mínimal to no supervision.
  • Collaborate with other leaders and staff within Insurance Operations to ensure that all functions are fully integrated and are in accordance with the Company's goals and objectives, ensuring that all overarching SLAs are considered, met and/or exceeded.
  • Proactively support the Management Team with required reports, summaries, investigations, feedback, and potential challenges. Effectively liaise and negotiate with other business units to resolve and enhance customer service expectations and business deliverables.
  • Represent Insurance Operations on audit investigations providing clarification and details of processes and any exceptionbased decisions.
  • Be an active listener and demonstrate empathy and patience in a nonscripted environment.
Key Qualifications

  • Minimum 2+ years of progressive leadership experience, preferably within the insurance/financial services industry.
  • Strong people leadership skills with the proven ability to adapt and implement ongoing changes, ensuring a seamless transition to the customer.
  • Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor front line employees to create a high performing team
  • In depth product, system and regulatory knowledge with proven ability to adapt and implement ongoing changes, ensuring a seamless transition to the customer.
  • Strong sense of personal accountability, mature judgment, confidence and flexibility. Ability to exercise independent discretion at all times.
  • Well developed problem solving, analytical and decision making skills, including the ability to analyze situations, diagnose problems, develop and implement solutions, often within narrow timeframes, e.g. preventing complaints from escalating further and turning potentially damaging caller situations into positive caller experiences. Further includes being able to facilitate creative problem solving with others. Also includes being a forward thinker.
  • Ability to forecast anticipated changes to work volumes and successfully achieve established service level agreements (SLA) within a fast paced environment.
  • Must have the initiative and ability to look for and champion improvement opportunities. Adaptable to ongoing change and lead by example.
  • A "take charge" attitude along with the ability to selfmanage workload and priorities in a changing and evolving environment. This includes effective and efficient time management, multitasking and prioritizing skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize own work and work of others; can work effectively under pressure and time constraints within a fast paced environment.
  • Advanced verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills required to effectively communicate with all levels of employees and customers.
  • Exceptional customer service orientation.
  • Ability to work in a new and ambiguous environment where tasks, processes, procedures, and lines of authority are evolving and changing. Also possessing an aptitude in teaching and guiding the effectiveness and usability of new systems and tools.
  • Understand the implications of data input, content and quality to all systems, departments and end customers.
  • Takes initiative to increase knowledge of Foresters Financial business and how own job contributes to our corporate and department objectives. Applies this knowledg
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