Team Manager - Sales

Sigma Connected Group; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 30 000 - 60 000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Team Manager, where you will lead a dedicated team of Customer Advisors in delivering exceptional service. This role focuses on fostering a high-performance culture, ensuring compliance with standards, and driving team development. Enjoy a supportive work environment that values career growth and offers numerous benefits, including medical insurance and transportation assistance. If you're passionate about customer service and team leadership, this opportunity is perfect for you!

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Transportation Benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Monthly and Quarterly Awards

Qualifications

• Experience in BPO with a strong background in Financial Services or Insurance.
• Proven leadership skills in a high-performance environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Customer Advisors to achieve performance targets.
• Coach and develop team members for continuous improvement.

Skills

Team Management

Customer Service

Financial Services

Insurance

Coaching

Microsoft Office

Education

Matric (Grade 12) or equivalent

Job description

What being part of the Sigma Family means for you

Team Manager

As a Team Manager, you will be responsible for leading a team of Customer Advisors, driving exceptional operational performance while ensuring full compliance with regulatory standards, with a particular focus on treating customers fairly. You will report directly to the Service Delivery manager.

Location:Woodstock, Cape Town

Sigma Family

At Sigma, we stand out and have now been acknowledged 2 years in a row by the Sunday Times as one of the Best Places to Work - voted by our people.

Our core mission is to #ImproveEverythingAlways, with a strong focus on our people. That's why we are seeking exceptional individuals to join us and represent our clients, delivering top-tier customer service across various industries.

What being a part of the Sigma Family means for you!

Career development and opportunities to apply for internal promotions following your probationary period.

Monthly, Quarterly and Annual awards with marvelous prizes.

️Resources such as the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health First Aiders to support you when life might not be going quite as you expected.

Receive a tree in the Sigma Forest when you pass probation. This will allow you to review how your tree is reducing your carbon footprint.

Medical Insurance – Covers doctor visits, optometrist appointments and dental assistance, funeral cover, Group Life Cover, which are all Free from the Sigma Family to you.

Transportation Benefits – Accommodate making your traveling journey to work easier with the amazing shuttle services that we offer our employees.

Join communities and collaborate with your colleagues on our internal Social Media platform.

The opportunity to be a part of an equal, diverse, and inclusive workplace – all amazing people are welcome in the Sigma Family.

A bit more about the Opportunity...

What Your Day-to-Day Will Look Like

You will coach and develop theteam into a high-performance culture, and focus on staffing needs, productivity, and quality. You will manage employees by ensuring continuous communication, feedback, motivation, and Company Behaviours are being lived. You will guide and support your team in line with our Always Improving Performance Framework, to consistently achieve and exceed their KPIs, and support their ongoing development aspirations.

You will oversee various functions such as follow-up on attendance, coaching, and closing off any gaps relating to their KPI's. You will agree and set goals with team members for performance, quality and development with team members. You will focus on the career and skills development of team members. You will resolve people-related problems e.g. conflict of interest, absenteeism, and disciplinary matters. You will also drive the achievement of targets and consistently meet and exceed internal management and client service level agreements (SLAs). You will maintain high standards of professionalism and compliance, and you will address people-related challenges, such as attendance issues and disciplinary matters, swiftly and fairly, promoting a positive work environment.

What amazing People will bring to the role

What Amazing people will bring to the role

You have experience in Financial Services (UK), Insurance (UK), Sales (UK) will be a distinct advantage. You have great knowledge of managing agent performance in line with Sigma policies and procedures to meet performance targets. You are able to manage utilization of staff in line. You are able to identify and remove performance barriers to meet performance targets.

You will manage the resolution of customer/ agent problems and complaints, you maintain up to date knowledge of developments in, products and services You are able to coach, develop and motivate direct reports. You manage the, scheduling, and performance of employees. You are competent in the use of Microsoft Office products.

Requirements:

• You have a Matric (Grade 12) or equivalent qualification
• You have BPO experience within an international BPO (Essential)
• You have previous leadership/Team Management experience within a BPO environment
• You have 1 – 2 years Team Management/BPO experience working in a Financial Services (UK), Insurance (UK), Sales (UK) environment
• You have a strong Insurance (UK) background (Essential)
• You can display a strong sense of resilience whilst under pressure
• You have a good command of the English language (written and verbal)
• You are confident and thrive in pressured environments

Simple and Straight Forward Recruitment.

We don’t see the value in making candidates jump through hoops. Once we receive your application via ICIMS, if you meet all relevant criteria as stipulated on the advert, we’ll proceed with further shortlisting & start your application process.

If you like the sound of being part of the Sigma Family, then don’t wait and get applying!