Chase Merchant Services, a business unit within Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB), is a global leader in payment processing and merchant acquiring, capable of authorizing transactions in over 130 currencies.
As a Merchant Services Team Manager within Chase Merchant Services, you will be leading a team within our call center. You will be partnering and collaborating with various teams to supervise the service operation and effectively lead agents in providing excellent and efficient service to our merchants. You will also be responsible for interacting, educating, and supporting Relationship Managers and their clients. This role provides an opportunity to leverage your advanced analytical skills, excellent communication skills, and your ability to influence employee morale.
Job Responsibilities
1. Monitor account specialist activities and key performance indicators
2. Coach and develop specialists for continuous skill refinement through various mediums to isolate individual employee performance improvement needs and administer the appropriate training/actions to yield the intended performance results
3. Analyze operational performance to capture developing trends and recommend process improvement solutions to continuously enhance operational productivity and uplift efficiency
4. Leverage resources to monitor case aging, call-type patterns and isolate developing trends to identify opportunities for process and/or procedural changes to increase productivity
5. Liaise with other departments on projects as assigned and/or workflow processes that exist between groups, to ensure the call center is represented and to maintain procedural flow that functions homogeneously for all groups, and to ensure regulatory compliance issues are adequately addressed
6. Assist Workforce Management as warranted to coordinate employee scheduling and monitor daily schedule adherence
7. Assist with escalations and assist internal customers with questions and/or general support needs
8. Participate in all hiring and performance management activities pertaining to the team
9. Administer corrective disciplinary action as necessary to address unacceptable performance behaviors/incidents
10. Handle special projects and tasks as assigned by leadership
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
11. Advanced analytical skills with the ability to adapt quickly to change
12. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
13. Ability to provide professional and interpersonal communication when interacting with others
14. Knowledge of computer software systems such as Microsoft Office, including using and creating spreadsheets and databases
15. Critical thinking, problem solving, and interpersonal skills
16. Ability to influence employee morale
17. Ability to multi-task and be self-directed
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
18. Customer service experience, preferably servicing customers in a technical support environment
19. Management experience (directly managing staff)
20. Must be willing to work in an environment that requires phone-based customer interactions
21. Strong working knowledge of payment processing industry, Visa/MasterCard operating rules and regulations
22. In lieu of degree, may have relevant work experience, preferably servicing customers; typically will have four years or more of customer service experience
23. Bilingual English/French is highly preferred
Work Schedule
24. Must be willing to work schedules during our operating hours through till 1am, which can include evenings, weekends, and Bank holidays
25. Must be willing to work in office a minimum of three days per week