Team Leader
Link Group
- Australia
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Responsible for building high performing teams to ensure service levels are met and to prioritise and adapt work to align with organisational goals.
- Work in partnership with the broader leadership team to drive strategic direction and provide effective leadership.
- Deliver and champion continuous improvement initiatives to ensure that best practice is incorporated into the business
- Establish and maintain strong working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, to ensure alignment with and delivery of customer centric solutions against the overall strategy.
- Continuously monitor resource availability so the team can meet client needs and perform services properly
- Maintain effective communication to ensure that team members are kept up to date with any changes to procedures, legislation, or corporate issues
- Assist with enquiries from internal and / or external clients and service providers
- Actively participate in team meetings, staff meetings, management meetings
- Oversight of quality reviews of Customer Service Officer's calls and day-to-day work through telephone call and workflow case monitoring
- Manage team members and workflow to ensure that service standards are met or exceeded
- Provide side-by-side coaching and remote monitoring on a weekly basis to ensure team members are delivering high quality customer service as measured by individual and team targets
- Provide individual and team performance feedback
- Provide ongoing support, development, training and mentoring to team members
- Support and participate in staff recruitment as required
- Participate in and adhere to the Performance Management process and be proactive in identifying and addressing training needs for team members.
- Ensure that all Customer Service Officers understand client specific plan provisions and current legislation
- Ensure all tasks within the team are performed in accordance with defined quality standards and the requirements of the Australian Financial Services Licence.
- Ensure the development of a risk management culture, and effectively limit risk exposure to Link Group with strategies to mitigate risk.
- Ensure total compliance with statutory regulations including the mitigation of operational risk through the effective use of the incident management framework.
- Foster a proactive risk and compliance culture within the team and ensure all risk and compliance reporting and assurance obligations are met.
- Maintain awareness of the regulatory environment with respect to team functions.
- Leverage expertise to ensure that regulatory frameworks and compliance requirements are met, with adequate controls in place.
- Ideal experience in customer service, insurance within the Superannuation industry
- People leadership experience
- Ability to communicate at all levels and tailor style to suit various audiences
- Strong organisational and planning skills with the ability to manage conflicting priorities
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- University Degree (or equivalent), ASFA Certificate / Diploma, or relevant superannuation administration experience/Contact Centre experience/RG146