Description & Requirements
Are you a dynamic leader with a passion for operational excellence and delivering exceptional customer service? Maximus is seeking an experienced Call Center Manager to lead a fast-paced and mission-driven contact center that supports healthcare services. This is a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact by overseeing day-to-day call center operations, managing a team of dedicated professionals, and ensuring high-quality service delivery for a statewide provider network.
In this role, you will be responsible for driving performance, optimizing workflows, implementing strategic improvements, and ensuring compliance with all relevant standards. The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership skills, a data-driven mindset, and a commitment to continuous improvement in a service-oriented environment.
**This position is contingent based upon award of the contract**
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Oversee the daily operations of a call center team to ensure performance metrics are met.
- Maintain updated knowledge of the Call Center performance requirements as well as corporate and project policies and procedures. Provide updates to staff regarding these policies and procedures.
- Evaluate the need for training to ensure that staff maintains current knowledge of multiple programs.
- Address inadequate quality issues with Supervisory team in relation to reviews and corrections of calls monitored.
- Monitor performance goals and objectives for the call center staff and complete daily and weekly reports.
- Provide leadership with updates on all issues regarding quality, training, policy, procedures, staff issues and departmental performance levels.
- Monitor call center compliance with ISO standards as applicable.
- Implement necessary corrective actions to ensure consistent application of all laws, regulations, policies, and procedures pertinent to the Call Center.
- Monitor and evaluate performance, write performance appraisals, and provide corrective actions as needed.
- Responsible for identifying and resolving issues, problems, and concerns with employees.
- Recommend changes to policies and establish procedures and assist in the implementation of process improvements when necessary.
- Provide direction to staff when complaints are escalated to management level.
- Resolve operations escalations and ensure client referrals are appropriate
- Monitor operational performance measures and work with leadership team to make necessary adjustments in assignment and/or workload to ensure compliance
- Ensure all operations performance metrics are accurately reflected in reporting and submitted timely
- Escalate system issues as appropriate
- Participate in client facing meetings as appropriate
- Coordinate with other operational leaders (Application Processing Manager, Outreach and Education Manager) to ensure key issues impacting application process are communicated and addressed in external stakeholder communications.
- Ensure lessons learned and external stakeholder feedback is incorporated in staff training and continued education activities
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 5+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.