[Hiring] Tax Customer Service Manager @MCI Careers

Role Description

MCI is one of the fastest-growing tech-enabled business services companies in the USA, with a strong call center footprint and operations that extend across multiple countries. We deliver Customer Experience (CX), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), and Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS) cloud technology solutions across a wide range of industries, including healthcare, retail, government, education, telecom, technology e-commerce, and financial services.

If you are a highly motivated individual and possess excellent communication skills, we need your help in managing tax customer service agents. While your team answers tax-related questions and offers advice, you will assist and support them with your leadership and expertise.

• Lead a team of 15-25 entry-level front-line customer service agents responsible for inbound call handling.
• Responsible for coaching and developing 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.
• Direct workforce management activities and set 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.
• Responsible for the overall performance and productivity of direct reports.
• Responsible for weekly payroll review and submission to ensure correct entries.
• Responsible for driving the growth of revenue and profit originating from a call center.
• Proven ability to meet performance, efficiency, and quality assurance targets.
• Monitoring of individual and team results to identify and act on both positive and negative performance.
• 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.
• Determining work procedures, preparing work schedules, and expediting workflow.
• Responsible for hiring, coaching, and terminating call center employees.
• Be a subject matter expert on your client's business.
• Manage remote employees as needed.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of total call center experience or 1 year of call center management experience.
• Associates 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.
• Superior knowledge of call center tools and technology used to manage KPIs and SLAs.
• Possess practical conflict resolution skills (both customer and agent conflict).
• Proven leader with advanced time management, planning, organizational and multitasking skills.
• Ability and eagerness to learn new products and systems.
• Ability to work in a professional, fast-paced environment.
• Strong understanding of the contact center environment and the key levers to enhance performance and achieve client and financial targets.
• 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.
• An ability to hold team members accountable for job performance including adherence, KPIs, and process.
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing, and high-pressure environment.

Requirements

• Military, local, state or federal government experience is a plus.
• Graduation from an accredited two-year or four-year college or university is a plus.
• Experience managing both remote and on-site reports is a plus.

Physical Requirements

• This job operates in a professional office environment.
• 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

• Must be authorized to work in the country where the job is based.
• Must be willing to submit up to a LEVEL II background and/or security investigation with a fingerprint.
• Must be willing to submit to drug screening.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At MCI and its subsidiaries, we embrace differences and believe diversity benefits our employees, company, customers, and community. All aspects of employment at MCI are based solely on a person's merit and qualifications.