Sr. Operations Manager

For more than 25 years, Asurion has been a leader in innovation, not only in the tech solutions industry, but in creating a culture where employees feel valued.

We help people do more with their technology and stay connected on all of their devices. We provide our customers with simple, helpful advice to get the most from their technology, assistance to fix any technology issues they have and protection of their devices to ensure they quickly get a replacement or repair if anything does go wrong.

What you will be doing:

The Senior Manager, Call Center Operations will lead a team of Managers by providing them with direction, support, and career development. Demonstrate innovation by enhancing or creating processes that will improve customer satisfaction, increase productivity, and improve the performance of all clients and teams. Improve team member satisfaction by creating an environment consistent with Asurion's Core Values, resulting in retention of leaders and representatives.

The Senior Manager will oversee the operations of assigned clients and/or teams in accordance with Asurion's Core Values by providing outstanding service to both internal and external customers and cultivating a culture of customer service and sales. This position is responsible for understanding and complying with operational contractual requirements of Asurion's clients. Position responsibilities include coaching and development of Managers and teams to meet and exceed established call center and sales goals, ensuring adherence to established business processes and policies, and creating a positive and fun working environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborates and follows directives of Site Director
• Provides exceptional customer service to all internal customers of Asurion
• Drive sales, operational, and customer service metrics by communicating expectations, motivating, and holding Managers accountable for the performance and behaviors of their teams
• Develop the team to drive mastery of sales behaviors and resources, customer service capabilities, and deep Connected Home product knowledge
• Use data to identify trends and root cause and develop action plans for the team to drive sales and operational performance consistent with Asurion's Core Values
• Collaborates and cooperates with other functional areas including Human Resources, Training, Workforce, Communications, Customer and Employee Experience, and Client Services
• Fosters a cooperative team environment within the management team and site
• Provide leadership, direction, support and career development to Customer Solutions organizations, management, and teams in a manner consistent with Asurion's Core Values and business objectives
• Lead Managers to support their teams to train, motivate and coach the leaders on the essential skills to meet that each team member has the tools they need to succeed at their job
• Appropriately prioritize site, team, and individual goals to effectively achieve business objectives
• Actively seeks input from team members to understand successes and opportunities and leverage of input to make improvements
• Helps to develop, define, and execute a culture that leverages rewards and recognition
• Continually seeks opportunities to improve operations, including people, processes, and technologies
• Ensure that team member, client, and customer expectations are met and exceeded
• Collaborate with Workforce Management to implement their recommendations for improving operational efficiencies
• Collaborate with Human Resources to ensure that policies and procedures are consistently and fairly applied
• Work with the Quality department and Operations Managers to ensure consistency in call evaluations and that quality objectives are achieved
• Assists Site Director with strategic planning as it pertains to Operations
• Represents Asurion in client interactions to include: Supporting and facilitating client requested changes and representing customer experience feedback
• Maintains an excellent working knowledge of the entire operation, as well as leading and developing department projects
• Update and continuously develop knowledge of products processes, and call center trends to provide recommendations that improve the customer experience, employee satisfaction, and enterprise performance
• Help to develop and manager strategies and action plans to manage site and enterprise employee retention and satisfaction
• Help to manage the site's budget and understand the impact of decisions and actions based on the overall company financial performance

Here's what you'll bring to the team:

• Ability to quickly resolve concerns and problems within the Department
• Demonstrates a commitment to achieve all goals and objectives including sales performance metrics
• Establishes a strong leadership presence within the Department by being involved, interacting on the call center floor, and being approachable
• Energy and experience motivating teams to achieve sales metrics
• Proven and demonstrable leadership, management, and motivational skills
• College degree or equivalent experience required-advanced degree(s) or certification (s) preferred
• Minimum of 7-10 years call center experience required, with at least 3-5 years at the manager level and 2-3 years directly managing manager level employees
• Demonstrates an uncompromising level of honesty, trustworthiness, and ethical behavior
• Exudes the ability to inspire, motivate and influence others to achieve
• Demonstrated excellence in communication (written and verbal) with internal and external customers
• Results-driven, action-oriented, and self-motivated mindset
• Must be experienced and comfortable working in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment and able to deal well with change and ambiguity
• Experience with call center technology, including ACD, workforce management agent productivity tools, and quality management tools.
• Proficiency using MS office