Senior Manager - Escalation Desk, Escalation

SBI Card; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,339,000 - 1,897,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness program

Rewards and recognition

Diverse team culture

Gender neutral policy

Inclusive health benefits

Job summary

SBI Card is seeking a seasoned professional to manage external escalations from customers and stakeholders. You will coordinate across functions to resolve issues with timely, quality outcomes and drive improvements to processes and policies.

Role requires strong analytical skills, ownership of RCAs, and collaboration with legal, risk, and business teams to prevent repeats while ensuring customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Credit cards, CRMs and operational processes.
• Experience in complaints handling and process improvement within customer services.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end external escalations across SBI Card and subsidiaries.
• Drive root cause analysis to improve policies, processes and systems.
• Monitor escalation resolutions against timelines and quality standards.

Skills

Credit cards knowledge

CRM knowledge

Complaints handling

Process improvement

Education

Graduate or Postgraduate in any discipline

Job description

About the company

At SBI Card, the motto Make Life Simple inspires every initiative, ensuring that customer convenience is at the forefront of all that we do. We are committed to building an environment where people can thrive and create a better future for everyone.

SBI Card is proud to be an equal opportunity & inclusive employer and welcome employees without any discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, gender, religion, creed, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, caste etc. SBI Card is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where all employees are treated equally with dignity and respect which makes it a promising place to work.

What s in it for YOU

1. SBI Card truly lives by the work-life balance philosophy. We offer a robust wellness and wellbeing program to support mental and physical health of our employees
2. Admirable work deserves to be rewarded. We have a well curated bouquet of rewards and recognition program for the employees
3. Dynamic, Inclusive and Diverse team culture
4. Gender Neutral Policy
5. Inclusive Health Benefits for all - Medical Insurance, Personal Accidental, Group Term Life Insurance and Annual Health Checkup, Dental and OPD benefits
6. Commitment to the overall development of an employee through comprehensive learning & development framework

Role Purpose

Responsible for managing External Escalations:

1. Top Management Escalations, Escalations from SBI, its associates & other subsidiaries, RTI escalations
2. Driving Customer Experience within organization across functions with detailed root cause analysis and to improvise process, policy and system design

Role Accountability

1. Oversee Wing-to-Wing Resolution of external escalations received by allocating cases according to skillset of team members and monitoring resolutions within timelines and quality standards
2. Identify chronic issue in system and drive it closure via RCA tool and initiate projects aiming at enhanced service delivery and avoidance of repeat escalation; Review case sheets prepared by team and present the same to top management
3. Review reports / MIS/ dashboards and process KPIs for the activities to monitor performance and progress
4. Lead Customer Experience Management/Escalation to Excellence Program by driving RCAs, investigation with the help of FCU/Chargeback/Risk, presenting the matters to legal, Settlement committee/FLAC /Customer compensation committee as required, drive critical customer issues through CEC
5. Organize ERCs across customer service verticals with CS senior leadership periodically to analyze complaint and reduce errors/Gaps, identify ways to simplify CRM, updation of processes/product details on Knowledge Bot (Drishti)
6. Drive Retention to reduce customer attrition
7. Participate in and conduct audits for processes and sub-processes and identify gap and improvement areas
8. Identify training needs for customer services and partner with training team for refresher/FKAT- (training Quiz about Product/process), reiteration of communication around product and process
9. Liaise with Sales, marketing, Risk, Product, pricing, and collection for the deviations, Service Nos and change/improvement in process
10. Ensure process documentation and compliance adherence

Measures of Success

1. Response TAT, Resolution TAT, TAT for Referrals
2. Escalation TAT
3. FTE Productivity
4. Service Quality Score
5. Avoidable escalation/Repeats/Defects
6. Team adherence to SOPs
7. Voice of Customers
8. Timely and accurate project delivery
9. Govt Portal Resolution and closure on portal TAT
10. Process Adherence as per MOU

Technical Skills / Experience / Certifications

1. Knowledge of Credit cards / CRMs/ Operational processes
2. Experience in complaints handling, process improvement in customer services

Competencies critical to the role

1. Organizing and Planning
2. Problem Solving
3. Stakeholder Management
4. Customer Orientation

Qualification

Graduate/Post Graduate in any discipline

Preferred Industry

FSI