Shift Manager

Sagility Limited; Quezon City; On-site; PHP 850,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Sagility Limited seeks a Shift Manager in Quezon City to lead contact center operations and ensure we meet client service levels. The role focuses on workforce management, coaching, and implementing action plans to improve performance and profitability while prioritizing customer and employee retention.

The candidate should have 2-3 years of team leadership experience and 3-4 years in healthcare provider settings, with strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 year College Degree with Degree in Management, Marketing, Psychology, or Life Science
• At least 2-3 years of experience leading teams, and 3-4 years of Healthcare Provider experience
• Strong workforce management and Human Resource background

Responsibilities

• Accountable for Operations. Ensures execution of contingency and disaster recovery plans.
• Ensures Contact Center meets productivity standards and client service levels are met or exceeded.
• Reviews and analyzes productivity reports prepared by the Team Leaders before the reports are submitted to the Operations Manager.
• Submits periodic productivity/service performance reports to the Operations Manager.
• Prepares the schedule/Team Leaders assignments to ensure that all operational hours are supervised.
• Regularly conducts dialogues, communication sessions with agents/front liners (skip meetings).

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Customer service

Problem solving

Verbal communication

Written communication

Conflict resolution

Process improvement

Coaching and training

KPI management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Management, Marketing, Psychology, or Life Science

Job description

Sagility combines industry-leading technology and transformation-driven BPM services with decades of healthcare domain expertise to help clients draw closer to their members. The company optimizes the entire member/patient experience through service offerings for clinical, case management, member engagement, provider solutions, payment integrity, claims cost containment, and analytics. Sagility has more than 25,000 employees across 5 countries.

The role is to contribute to the overall account performence and profitiability by implementing action plans, participating in strategic projects which in return will improve and maintain client satisfaction. Also, focus on customer and employee retention.

Job title

Shift Manager

Education

Minimum 4 year College Degree with Degree in Management, Marketing, Psychology, or Life Science

Experience

At least 2-3 years of experience leading teams, and 3-4 years of Healthcare Provider experience. Strong workforce management and Human Resource background.

Mandatory Skills

Exceptional interpersonal, customer service, problem-solving, verbal and written communication, and conflict resolution skills. Proficiency with the necessary technology, including computers, software applications, phone systems, etc. Ability to improve and/or transform teams processes across functions within the organization. Ability to understand basic data and take appropriate action. Ability to drive individual and team efficiency and productivity through effective and efficient metric management. Ability to coach, train, and motivate employees and evaluate their performance. Ability to strategically lead and develop team towards improved performance. Ability to delegate and manage work loads and projects across functions within the organization. Ability to successfully drive continuous improvement efforts by leading various work streams related to call center metrics and monitoring tools. Ability to problem solve, handle conflict, anticipate issues/concerns, troubleshoot problems, and proactively institute creative solutions.

Roles & responsibilities

• Accountable for Operations. Ensures execution of contingency and disaster recovery plans.
• Ensures Contact Center meets productivity standards and client service levels are met or exceeded.
• Reviews and analyzes productivity reports prepared by the Team Leaders before the reports are submitted to the Operations Manager.
• Submits periodic productivity/service performance reports to the Operations Manager.
• Prepares the schedule/Team Leaders assignments to ensure that all operational hours are supervised.
• Regularly conducts dialogues, communication sessions with agents/front liners (skip meetings).
• Ensures that workplace is safe, conducive, and a healthy working environment.
• Implements floor management policies in order to ensure adherence to service level agreements between clients.
• Coordinates with Workforce with regard to approval/disapproval of request for unscheduled leaves and tardiness along with the necessary adjustments to schedules of available manpower in order to meet requirements.
• Ensures preparation of client required reports and make necessary endorsements to ensure that deadlines for submission of reports are met.
• Be able to ensure that operations run smoothly on a daily basis.
• Be able to coordinate with Workforce to ensure Service Levels and program goals are met.
• Recommends corrective services within client limits to adjust customer complaints.
• Answers questions about service to Operations Manager and Team Leaders and worked to develop so repeat questions do not arise.
• Strives to help the entire team when in need of assistance.
• Conducts performance reviews and appraisals for Team Leaders (monthly/midyear/yearly).
• Reviews preliminary investigation of disciplinary cases and approves/disapproves/escalates disciplinary actions in adherence to the provisions of the Company Code of Conduct.
• Conducts regular inter and intradepartmental operations, feedback, action planning, meetings for dissemination of policies and products, hardware issues, troubleshooting, review of status reports, etc.
• Participates in the development of contingency plans, escalation procedures, and disaster recovery plans.
• Regularly reviews staffing requirements, actual headcount vs budget, and requisitions for manpower when necessary.
• Ensures implementation of customer complaint escalation and turnaround time for complaint resolution to meet service level agreements.
• Participates in the preparation of the department's annual business plan and budget to support Sagility's objectives and goals.
• Ensures operation's compliance with the client's requirements and policies Provides recommendations in the setting of call center systems parameters
• Be able to implement action plans to ensure alignment between the other support groups.
• Be able to communicate as needed with other departments within the Contact Center about operational and personal needs.
• Be able to analyze situation arises outside the established guidelines or parameters and be able to evaluate such situation for impact on present.
• Be able to give recommendations and implement these recommendations once approved to ensure process improvement in order to help the program achieve its goals.
• Studies and standardizes procedures to improve efficiency of subordinates.
• Informs all parties when system is not working effectively.
• Works with Call center Director to develop ways for system to improve quality.
• Be able to be responsible in the performance of his/her team.
• Be responsible for the development and implementation of policies and procedures pertaining to HIPAA and ensures the center is following Privacy Rules Standard.
• Be able to provide bi-monthly one-on-one coaching and feedback to drive performance and reduce cost.
• Be able to provide immediate coaching regarding TL or team performance when the need arises using documented personal observations or critical incidences to improve TL and team performance.
• Be able to ensure timely and accurate communication regarding updates to team leaders.
• Be able to initiate and support all employee satisfaction and workplace programs.
• Disciplines and creates incentives for all staff in conjuction with meeting performance measurements.
• Be able to answer questions about service to the Team Leaders.
• Be able to recommend and apply corrective measure for staff members who do not meet minimum performance metrics.
• Be able to monitor key performance indicators within and across teams to assure that standards are met across the board.
• Be able to work with Team Leaders to resolve concerns of agents as well as their own.
• Be able to follow-up personnel issues (e.g. Payroll, HR, etc.) as reported by TLs.
• Be able to meet with TLs at least once a week to discuss program and team performance and share best practices.
• Be able to ensure TLs submit accurate and timely reports (ex. Coaching logs, performance review ,etc.)
• Be able to create specific Individual Development Plan for TLs over a given period of time to prepare them to the next level.
• Be able to file accurate and timely agent coaching logs from TLs
• Be able to file weekly/monthly team performance reviews
• Be able to implement programs to ensure high levels of Quality
• Be able to develop initiatives to optimize results
• Be able to partner with other Shift Managers to share/implement best practices.
• Be able to monitor team performance on a daily basis.
• Submit weekly and monthly team operations review to Operations Manager
• Prepare composite reports from the individual reports of subordinates
• Communicate as needed with other departments within the Contact Center about operational and personnel issues.
• Handle the overall project, Budgeting & Financials, Strategies to improve teams KPIs, SPOC for the client relations, profitability of the project, Planning and Process improvements.

Location

Quezon City, Bridgetowne ZetaPhilippines

Sagility combines industry-leading technology and transformation-driven BPM services with decades of healthcare domain expertise to help clients draw closer to their members. The company optimizes the entire member/patient experience through service offerings for clinical, case management, member engagement, provider solutions, payment integrity, claims cost containment, and analytics. Sagility has more than 25,000 employees across 5 countries.

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