Marcus by Goldman Sachs, Complaints Manager, Associate, Birmingham Birmingham · United Kingdom · Associate

Goldman Sachs; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Marcus by Goldman Sachs Complaints Leader role in Birmingham seeks an experienced leader to oversee complaint management for a fast-paced consumer banking environment. You will coach specialists, escalate complex inquiries, and ensure timely, high-quality resolutions while collaborating with legal, compliance and cross-functional teams.

You will report on root causes, drive improvements and maintain a strong focus on customer advocacy and satisfaction in a high-standard financial services

Qualifications

• Understanding of complaint regulations such as DISP and related regulatory environment.
• Proven ability to lead by example with a positive attitude.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Proven delivery of excellent customer experience and advocacy.
• Strong customer focus and a good telephone manner.
• Ability to lead teams and drive performance standards.
• Motivation to develop staff and meet targets.
• Ability to manage change.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the management and reporting of customer complaints, including Executive Complaints and Financial Ombudsman cases.
• Provide leadership, coaching and development to complaints specialists, ensuring targets and agent satisfaction are achieved.
• Act as a senior escalation point, handling complex enquiries and fraud cases with timely, high-quality resolution.
• Ensure all complaints are acknowledged and customers are kept informed throughout the process.
• Manage end-to-end resolution of complaints within set timescales.
• Collaborate with legal, compliance and cross-functional teams to maintain efficient processes.
• Provide regular and ad-hoc complaint reports including root cause analysis for senior management and regulatory purposes.
• Maintain an environment focused on customer satisfaction and consistent business objective achievement.
• Recommend changes to reduce complaints and enhance customer experience using root cause analysis.
• Drive process enhancements and optimize resource allocation with audit-compliant procedures.
• Identify tech enhancements and contribute to IT requirements impacting Operations processes.
• Allocate workloads across channels for efficient resource use.
• Establish and enforce quality assurance standards, processes and controls.
• Conduct internal quality audits and support corrective action plans and training.

Skills

Regulatory understanding

Leadership

Communication

Problem-solving

Customer advocacy

People development

Attention to detail

Time management

Job description

Marcus by Goldman Sachs, Complaints Manager, Associate, Birmingham location_on Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

OUR IMPACT

Across Asset Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking, and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our direct-to-consumer business provides digital solutions that help customers save and invest. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading-edge technology, data, and design.

Marcus by Goldman Sachs

As the online consumer banking business of Goldman Sachs, Marcus operates as a digital bank, providingonline savings products directly to individual consumers. Marcus combines Goldman Sachs' over 150 years of expertise with intuitive digital experiences, focusing on value, transparency, and simplicity for its millions of customers.

YOUR IMPACT

We’re looking for an experienced Complaints Leader that has a passion for customer service to join our growing customer support team.If you have worked in a contact centre environment and have strong understanding of operational processes with good presentation and communication skills, we want to hear from you.

What you’ll do:

• Oversee the management and reporting of customer complaints, including Executive Complaints and Financial Ombudsman cases.
• Provide leadership, clear communication, coaching and professional development to complaints specialists, ensuring performance targets and agent satisfaction are achieved.
• Act as a senior point of escalation, directly handling complex customer enquiries and complaints, including fraud cases, and ensuring prompt, high-quality resolution within established timescales.
• Ensure all complaints are acknowledged in a timely manner and customers are kept informed throughout the complaint process.
• Manage the E2E resolution of customer complaints, within given timescales.
• Collaborate closely with legal, compliance, and cross functional teams to maintain process efficiency and effective complaint handling.
• Provide regular and ad-hoc complaint reports, including root cause analysis, for senior management and regulatory purposes.
• Responsible for maintaining an environment with intense focus on customer satisfaction/advocacy and professional customer support, balanced with consistent achievement of standard business objectives.
• Recommends changes to reduce complaints and enhance customer experience, using root cause analysis.
• Drive enhancements in business processes, optimise resource allocation, and ensure audit-compliant administrative procedures.
• Identifies technological enhancements and assists in the development of tech requirements impacting Operations processes within the business.
• Allocate workloads across multiple channels to ensure efficient resource utilisation.
• Employs principles and techniques as defined in the quality audit criteria, and develops and implements quality assurance standards, processes, and controls.
• Conduct internal quality audits of the customer support team and support the delivery of corrective action plans, training, and communication to improve quality outcomes.
• Owns and controls risk for Complaint processes and assists management team in driving positive operational improvements.
• Works closely with Business Risk Managers to identify key controls and escalation procedures. Pro-actively identifies any new issues or risks and works to ensure suitable controls are in place.

REQUIREMENTS

• An understanding of complaint regulations such as DISP, and complaints management along with the wider regulatory environment
• Self-directed team player, ability to drive high performance and work independently or in a team-oriented and fast paced environment
• Proven ability to lead by example, with a positive attitude
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven delivery of excellent customer experience and advocacy
• Strong customer focus and a good telephone manner
• Ability to lead teams and drive performance standards
• Good leadership skills and the ability to motivate and develop staff
• A desire to help others work towards targets and develop their skills
• Ability to set, meet and exceed targets
• Ability to manage change

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of customer service experience (with at least 2 years in a complaints capacity)
• In depth product knowledge across Banking and Savings within retail banking

Preferred Qualifications

• Complaints leadership in a retail banking environment

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

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We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

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