Team Leader Operations Customer Service - Medicare Supplement

Why Wellmark: We are a mutual insurance company owned by our policy holders across Iowa and South Dakota, and we’ve built our reputation on over 80 years’ worth of trust. We are not motivated by profits. We are motivated by the well-being of our friends, family, and neighbors–our members. If you’re passionate about joining an organization working hard to put its members first, to provide best-in-class service, and one that is committed to sustainability and innovation, consider applying today! 

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Why Leadership at Wellmark: 

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In this role you will lead a group of Customer Service Advocates. This is a critical role supporting a team that speaks with our members over the phone every day. You will contribute to the overall corporate mission by providing leadership, planning, coaching, and daily direction to front-line positions to meet or exceed customer service expectations to members and employers. Cultivates ideas and facilitates process improvement initiatives which result in achieving department/division customer goals, operational efficiencies, cost-savings, customer satisfaction and retention. Builds and promotes an environment of mutual trust, empowerment and teamwork. Fosters and encourages employee development while inspiring and creating accountability. 

Required:

• High School Diploma or GED

• 4+ years of experience, including:
• Proven effective leadership in a medium to high complexity organization, or equivalent work experience typically gained through a combination of project or informal leadership that demonstrates knowledge of unit work processes, products and services, and leadership competencies.
• Experience in business, health care, insurance, financial services, or related industry.
• Ability to communicate “Voice of the Customer” to the organization; exhibits customer focus and customer relationship management skills throughout prior experience.
• Critical thinking and workflow management skills with demonstrated ability to comprehend and process complex concepts.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including but not limited to writing reports, letters and documents for internal/external audiences, and presenting to various internal and external audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to create working relationships with stakeholders.
• Ability to lead diverse groups of individuals in highly technical, diverse settings to achieve planned goals.
• Strong team building skills, including coaching, mentoring, and performance improvement.
• Strong business technical knowledge, such as claims and member records processing, benefits and products, or processing systems.
• Demonstrated ability to manage change and effective use of process improvement tools and techniques to improve processes and improve customer satisfaction.
• Proficiency with MS Office products.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's Degree 
• Formal leadership experience in a contact center where production goals and metrics were measured
• Prior Health Insurance industry experience
• Experience in a SAFe Agile Product Centric Environment 

a. Lead, develop, motivate, and coach staff to support business objectives and produce results that are effective, accurate, timely, and on-target to meet or exceed team and stakeholder needs. Works together and collectively to identify ways to continue to improve Wellmark’s culture.

b. Supervise the on-going operations of departmental functions to ensure compliance with internal standards, policies/procedures and external regulations.

c. Ensure customer inquiries and issues are resolved timely and accurately, leading to customer satisfaction and retention.

d. Successfully achieves unit quality, production, financial and customer goals.

e. Research and resolve complex business problems and situations to the satisfaction of the customer.

f. Evaluate and initiate continuous process improvement, resulting in the reduction of re-work and increased customer satisfaction. Leads and participates in cross-functional project teams to successful outcomes.

g. Responsible for assuring human and other resources are used effectively through appropriate budget planning and inventory management.

h. Other duties as assigned.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

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