Experienced Contact Center Supervisor
About the role
MCI is seeking a highly motivated individual with 3+ years of call center management experience to lead a team of 15-25 entry-level front-line customer service agents. The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication skills and a proven track record in managing call center operations.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of 15-25 entry-level front-line customer service agents responsible for inbound call handling.
- Coach and develop reports on customer service processes and best practices.
- Manage metrics, performance criteria, policies and procedures to improve call center productivity continuously.
- Drive a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and personal excellence.
- Directs workforce management activities and sets performance goals and objectives accordingly.
- Develop and maintain strategy on ensuring customer satisfaction on all service interactions.
- Provide team motivation and development to maximize sales opportunities.
- Be directly responsible for the performance and success of your team.
- Ensure weekly payroll review and submission to ensure correct entries.
- Drive the growth of revenue and profit originating from a call center.
- Meet performance, efficiency, and quality assurance targets.
- Communicate key messages effectively to ensure that direct reports are informed of process changes.
- Provide regular feedback to representatives regarding performance wins and areas of opportunity.
- Work with other departments in the organization, such as quality assurance, training, IT, and recruiting.
- Develop and audit quality assurance strategies to ensure the delivery of world-class service.
- Monitor individual and team results to identify and act on both positive and negative performance.
- Determine work procedures, prepare work schedules, and expedite workflow.
- Hire, coach, and terminate call center employees.
- Manage remote employees as needed.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 3-years call center management experience.
- Associate's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
- Exceptional interpersonal & communication skills.
- Strong supervisory experience including staff development.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Excel, Word & PowerPoint.
- Demonstrated ability to drive sales through the actions of others.
- Prior experience in managing both remote and on-site reports.
- Proven leader with advanced time management, planning, organizational and multitasking skills.
- Ability and eagerness to learn new products and system.
- Ability to work in a professional, fast-paced environment.
- Clear, concise and practical communication skills (both oral and written).
- A solution-oriented and positive mindset that openly embraces change and stretches goals.
- Strong organizational skills with an ability to prioritize objectives with little-to-no assistance, find issues, and create and execute solutions that address those issues.
- The ability to hold team members accountable for job performance including adherence, KPI's, and process.
Skills
- Advanced knowledge of call center tools and technology used to manage KPIs and SLAs.
- Practical conflict resolution skills (both customer and agent conflict).
Benefits
At MCI, we offer a variety of benefits and incentives to support and reward our team members, including:
- Paid Time Off
- Incentives & Rewards
- Health Benefits
- Retirement Savings
- Disability Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Supplemental Insurance
- Career Growth
- Paid Training
- Fun, Engaging Work Environment
- Casual Dress Code
Pay
Starting compensation is based on experience, and we offer a variety of benefits and incentives to support and reward our team members.
Schedule
This job operates in a professional office environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be largely sedentary and will be required to sit/stand for long periods while using a computer and telephone headset. The employee will be regularly required to operate a computer and other office equipment, including a phone, copier, and printer. The employee may occasionally be required to move about the office to accomplish tasks; reach in any direction; raise or lower objects, move objects from place to place, hold onto objects, and move or exert force up to forty (40) pounds.
Conditions of Employment
- All MCI Locations Must be authorized to work in the country where the job is based.
- Subject to the program and location of the position.
- Must be willing to submit up to a LEVEL II background and/or security investigation with a fingerprint.
- Job offers are contingent on background/security investigation results.
- Must be willing to submit to drug screening.
- Job offers are contingent on drug screening results.
- Reasonable Accommodation Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), it is the policy of MCI and its affiliates to provide reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability unless such accommodations would cause undue hardship.
About Mci (parent Company)
MCI helps customers take on their CX and DX challenges differently, creating industry-leading solutions that deliver exceptional experiences and drive optimal performance. MCI assists companies with business process outsourcing, staff augmentation, contact center customer services, and IT Services needs by providing general and specialized hosting, software, staff, and services. In 2019, Marlowe Companies Inc. (MCI) was named by Inc. Magazine as Iowa's Fastest Growing Company in the State of Iowa and was named the 452nd Fastest Growing Privately Company in the USA, making the coveted top 500 for the first time. MCI's subsidiaries had previously made Inc. Magazine's List of Fastest-Growing Companies 15 times, respectively. MCI has ten business process outsourcing service delivery facilities in Georgia, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, California, Kansas, Nova Scotia, South Africa, and the Philippines. Driving modernization through digitalization, MCI ensures clients do more for less.