The Call Center Lead willmanage day-to-day inbound customer service operations and ensure aconsistently high standard of customer experience. The role is accountablefor team productivity, service quality, query resolution, complaint andescalation management, process adherence, and continuous improvement.
This is a hands-onleadership role requiring close coordination with internal teams to drivetimely and effective resolution of customer requests while building adisciplined, customer-centric contact center culture. Knowledge of BFSIsector is welcome.
Key roles andresponsibilities
- Lead daily inbound call center operations andensure customer queries are addressed promptly, accurately, andprofessionally.
- Monitor call queues, team availability,waiting time, and service levels; take corrective action during peak-volumeperiods.
- Drive end-to-end ownership of customerinteractions, including follow-ups and coordination with resolution teams.
- Monitor team performance across customersatisfaction, quality, productivity, call-handling efficiency, andservice-level indicators.
- Conduct periodic performance reviews, callobservations, coaching, and feedback sessions.
- Ensure consistent communication quality,accurate guidance, appropriate call control, and professional customerhandling.
- Use operational data and customer feedback toidentify improvement opportunities and implement corrective actions.
- Drive timely handling of grievances andescalations received from customers, senior management, or other servicechannels.
- Coordinate with backend, operations,collections, finance, technology, and other relevant teams for effectiveresolution.
- Highlight recurring escalations, processgaps, system issues, and customer pain points to management with recommendedactions.
- Lead, guide, and support call center teammembers to achieve defined customer service and productivity objectives.
- Plan staffing and roster coverage to maintainoptimum availability across operating hours and high-volume periods.
- Support onboarding, training, coaching,engagement, and retention of team members.
- Ensure adherence to approved SOPs, scripts,authentication requirements, and customer service processes.
- Ensure compliance with applicable riskcontrols, fraud-prevention practices, customer-data confidentiality, andinformation-security requirements.
- Maintain proper records, call dispositions,audit trails, and process discipline across customer interactions.
- Identify opportunities for call reduction,process simplification, automation, and customer self-service adoption.