
Manager, Customer Benefits Support
- New York City, NY
- $122,000-134,200 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead a team of Customer Support Benefits Specialists who assist our customers with inbound support inquiries across multiple channels
- Form a tight cross-functional relationship with key stakeholders across Risk & Insurance, Benefits, Account Development, Retention, and Revenue Enablement to ensure seamless interactions and alignment of goals and initiatives
- Create and present a quarterly root cause analysis to report on Benefits trends and insights to senior leadership
- Recommend improvements to Benefits products, features, and processes as a result of data-backed insights and analysis
- Participate in the annual Health Insurance Renewals program to represent Customer Support
- Assist with resolving customer critical moments and turning a customer's negative experience into a positive one
- Understanding customer needs related to benefits trends, and make recommendations to improve customer outcomes
- Contribute to the development and implementation of Benefits Specialist training and certification.
- Obsess over customer satisfaction and set clear expectations with your team for what successful customer interactions look like
- Own and publish key metrics for your team such as response time, productivity, CSAT, QA, and utilization
- Work closely with the Talent Acquisition and Training teams to evaluate and successfully onboard and ramp new employees
- Handle general management responsibilities, such as leading regular team meetings, individual one-on-ones, generating weekly metrics reports, quarterly business reviews, and conducting periodic performance reviews
- Other duties as needed based on department and/or organizational needs
- Builds an Effective Team - Building a strong-identity team that applies their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
- Develops Talent - Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals through effective performance management, candid feedback and coaching conversations
- Cultivates Innovation - Inspires creativity and curiosity, pushes beyond comfort zone, prioritizes learning & development for self and team
- Ensures Accountability - Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments
- Directs work - Providing direction, delegating and removing obstacles to get work done
- 4 year degree or equivalent work experience
- 3+ years managing a customer service team, preferably in the health insurance, employee benefits, or financial benefits space
- Expert level knowledge of the health insurance and financial benefit landscape across PEO and non-PEO products
- Passion for helping customers and Superior customer support skills - ability to be empathetic, compassionate, responsive and resourceful
- Advanced experience and skill with mentoring and coaching Proficiency with CRM and customer service communication platforms
- Experience identifying service trends and creating a path to resolve them
- Self-driven to be productive and seek out self-improvement
- Genuine desire to improve the quality of service we provide as well as the experience of our team members
- Comfort and experience leading a team through effective change management and stressful situations
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with acute attention to detail
- Aptitude for learning new products and helping to break down complicated topics and explain them in simple terms people can understand
- Ability to come up with creative solutions to any problem you face, and know-how to organize and prioritize your workload
- Excited to be a part of a team that supports customers 24/7