Cognizant is seeking a strong Team Lead to lead a team of customer support representatives.
We are obsessed with delivering an amazing customer experience. The ideal candidates will be comfortable understanding of customer service, have an appetite for research and gathering data insights, a high level of comfort working with cross functional partners, and a strong analytical mindset. Successful team members have a passion for business success, strong attention to detail, analytical problem-solving abilities, keeping a high level of team motivation and keen eyes for operational inefficiencies. This position requires technical acumen, customer focus and a personable, professional, and collaborative style to solve a range of issues from product troubleshooting to billing.
Roles and responsibilities:
· Manage the overall performance of a team of customer service representatives
· Day-to-day team management in accordance with requirements and SLAs
· Prompt identification and resolution of issues including implementation of preventative measures.
· Provide high quality agent coaching to ensure proper understanding of products and services, compliance with client policies, and delivery of the best customer service
· Recruits, selects, hires, and trains new personnel and prepares them to respond to customer questions and complaints
· Provide exceptional people management, mentorship, and career development to members of your team, achieve low attrition levels and high employee engagement
· Drive team to deliver continuous improvement and productivity/quality gains
· Flag and escalate business risks timely
· Making sure the operations is running as well as it possibly can, with a smooth efficient service that meets the expectations and needs of internal stakeholders and the client
· Client interfacing
· improve operational systems, processes and best practices that guarantee organizational well-being and efficiencies
· Leverage service quality, growth, and efficiency metric reports to identify areas of opportunity to enhance agent performance and drive achievement of stated goals.
· Perform quality controls and monitor production KPI’s, prepare reports and analyze data for your team
· Ability to develop and implement strategic processes to increase consistency and promote overall growth of the project
· Flexible with timings to support operations
Required qualifications and experience:
· Graduate in any stream with a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience from BPOS/ Call Centers
· 3+ years of experience in team management, managing 20+ FTE
· 3+ years of people management experience, including managing leaders, and a strong desire to develop team members
· Experience in leading teams in customer support via voice and chat support or a call center environment
· Advanced customer focus and customer service skills
· Exceptional training and coaching skills to motivate employees
· Great verbal and written communication skills
· Have full understanding of creating and implementing scheduling and task distribution
· Dynamic leader with experience and passion for managing large and diverse teams across multiple sites in a fast-paced environment, able to deal with rapid change and ambiguity
· Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
· Passion to create an exceptional experience and provide outstanding customer support
· Excited to be part of a global operations team, design effective business operations, tackle complex problems, and develop individual team members
· Adaptable and energized by a fast-paced environment
· Good in situational leadership, on the feet thinking.
· Analytically sound, ability to look through data and make learned decisions
· Adequate knowledge of organizational effectiveness and operations management
· Familiarity with business and financial principles and practices
· Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization
· Proven track record of collaborating with cross-functional groups to produce results
· ISO, Six Sigma, PMO Certification is an added advantage
· Strong practical experience with Excel (PivotTable, Charts, Statistical functions) is required a plus
What we offer
- The chance to work with impact. Here, you’re empowered to bring your biggest thinking to help our company and clients improve everyday life.
- Ownership over your career. Stay at the top of your game through our award-winning learning and development ecosystem. And when your ambitions change or we offer new opportunities, we help you pivot by providing reskilling, on-the-job learning and guidance to find new roles that might be a better fit.
- The opportunity to thrive on a high caliber team with heart. We celebrate each other’s experiences and perspectives and promote a sense of belonging through our affinity groups and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
- A comprehensive total rewards package, including a competitive salary and pension plan with matching contributions.
- Flexible health and financial benefits to support you and your eligible dependents—from day one.
- True work-life balance. Be at your best through paid time off, flexible work arrangements, volunteering opportunities, social events, and so much more.
About us
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.
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