Customer Experience Center Lead

Banner Health; Arizona; Hybrid; USD 67,704,000 - 101,550,000; Full time

Job summary

Banner Health seeks a Call Center Lead to manage a fast-paced, remote Customer Experience Center in Arizona. The role trains, coaches and supports agents, acting as a floor lead and subject matter expert to ensure a differentiated patient experience.

You will monitor metrics, guide QA processes and collaborate with providers to optimize workflows. As a senior resource, you’ll deliver ongoing education, handle escalations, and reinforce best practices across digital channels while maintaining

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in a contact center, customer care environment or healthcare.
• Strong communication, critical thinking and coaching skills.
• Ability to use technology tools to assist customers across channels.

Responsibilities

• Trains, monitors and coaches agents to deliver an easy, empathetic patient experience.
• Acts as floor lead providing real-time support and escalate issues to leadership.
• Oversees QA/Auditing processes to meet customer satisfaction standards.
• Communicates effectively via phone, chat, email and other digital channels.
• Partners with departments to improve patient experience and onboarding of new learners.

Skills

Contact center experience

Customer care

Healthcare

Education

High school diploma/GED

Job description

## Customer Experience Center LeadApply: Remote: Remote Arizona: Full time: Posted Today: R4455039**Department Name:**Patient Contact Ctr BUMG-P**Work Shift:**Day**Job Category:**Marketing and CommunicationsThose who have joined the Banner mission come from all walks of life, united by the common goal: Make health care easier, so life can be better. If changing health care for the better sounds like something you want to be part of, we want to hear from you.**Banner Health** is seeking a **Call Center Lead** for their **specialties** department. In this role a dynamic candidate monitors and helps a group of employees to achieve goals that contribute to the growth of the organization. The team lead motivates and inspire their team members, while also working with patients coordinating schedules for providers in a **fast- paced call center environment**. In this role you will conduct new hire training and support team members with ongoing training and development. Challenge the agent to think quickly, critically, and responsibly while delivering excellence in the customer’s journey and overall experience.Together with our business partners we are using technology to innovate and leverage a best-in-class experience for our customers. As Arizona's largest healthcare employer, we are proud to share our vision of the future which makes healthcare easier so life can be better.Your pay and benefits (Total Rewards) are important components of your Journey at Banner Health. Banner Health offers a variety of benefit plans to help you and your family. We provide health and financial security options so you can focus on being the best at what you do and enjoying your life **Location: Remote****Hours: Monday - Friday 8am-5pm** **\\*\\*\\*All internal candidates must submit their application by 10/15/2026\\*\\*\\***Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.POSITION SUMMARY This lead level position is responsible for providing support to the CEC functional area assigned and respective leadership team and serves as a team resource. This role helps to build partnerships with other departments with the customer’s needs in mind. This position is also responsible for performing the core job duties of the department as needed, training new and existing employees, coaching and providing feedback to team members as appropriate. Using a broad understanding of customer engagement strategies, this position assists with the overall quality, monitoring ACR and other customer satisfaction goals, metrics and requirements necessary to provide an exceptional customer experience that is easy, empathetic and differentiated in the marketplace. CORE FUNCTIONS 1. Trains, monitors and coaches agents in the CEC to deliver an easy, empathetic and differentiated patient experience in the specific CEC department. Able to identify areas of opportunity in the call flow process, coach and develop agents to handle essential functions within the department requirements. Receives and initiates calls to/from internal and external customers and recognizes when to escalate issues to leadership. Acts as a team resource to contact center agents assisting with questions and complex scenarios that require additional attention. 2. Utilizes effective thought leadership in identifying creative solutions to challenging processes and seeks alternatives to them. Plays a quality assurance role in supporting the department’s QA/Auditing process to meet organizational standards and ensure a robust customer experience. 3. This role will act as a representative to perform core job duties of the department based on business needs, volumes and/or demand as needed. Effectively leverage and support department utilization of software systems specific to functional area. 4. As a subject matter expert, ensure appropriate procedures and guidelines are performed and followed by agents in the contact center. Provides customer with information, instruction, general directions, and answers to questions specific within the department requirements and preferences. Refers questions to medical offices or department leaders as appropriate. 5. Provides feedback to the supervisor as appropriate on training opportunities. Provides real-time support to contact agents in the in-bound call setting. This role provides floor oversight in the contact center acting as an immediate resource to team members to diffuse escalations, address complex situations and resolve problems. 6. Effectively communicates and builds impactful relationships through written, digital and verbal channels to customers, both internal and external. Ensures an easy, empathetic, solution-orientated patient experience, included but not limited to phone, chat, email, electronic messaging and other digital channels. Anticipates customer needs and responds accordingly. 7. Facilitates new hire training and provides continuing education to address agent learning and development as needed. The lead serves as a role model within the department and supports the organization through partnering with peers to improve their performance. The lead helps to identify opportunities to improve the patient experience and onboarding new learners via peer to peer coaching in and outside a classroom setting. 8. The Customer Experience Center Lead supports work flow, answers questions, and provides real-time feedback to and training to support improvement and development of the contact center agent. The Lead is capable of all agent functions, roles and responsibilities in the area they work in. This role is a “go to” person for other team members as needed. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS High school diploma/GED or equivalent working knowledge. Requires proficiency typically obtained with 3 years of experience in a contact center, customer care environment or healthcare. Must possess the ability to think critically in stressful situations, effectively communicate both written and verbally, strong computer skills and functional knowledge of systems and applications and possess the ability to use technology tools to research and obtain accurate information to respond to customer inquiries via incoming calls, emails and/or instant messaging/chat avenues while maintaining a professional solutions / service oriented demeanor at all times. Demonstrated ability to provide essential customer service and knowledge in a high paced contact center environment and excellent communication skills to maintain a positive and helpful attitude with customers, providers and clinic operations. Must possess excellent organizational and time management skills to display the ability to provide timely, accurate information on a variety of benefit-oriented subjects. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Prior experience as a lead in similar environment pertaining to healthcare or customer care environment preferred. Additional related education and/or experience preferred. **Estimated Pay Range:**$23.62 - $35.44 / hour