Associate Service Operations Manager
Current- Leading a team of 15-22 associates.- Prepare and deliver onboarding and annual performance evaluations.- Conduct interviews and participate in the hiring process.- Handle associate relation issues, performance concerns, and provide feedback and recognition.- Build a culture around operational excellence of data-based decision making, accountability, driving process improvement, and continuously enhancing both internal and external client experience. - Deliver results in line with key metrics/accountabilities including: associate retention, client loyalty, revenue and gross margin objectives, and service turnaround and quality outputs.- Acquire and maintain regulatory expertise and communicating with team on changes, challenges, and opportunities. - Engage in business process improvement opportunities from conception to implementation.- Responsible for creating, monitoring, and maintaining department and internal process documentation and systems.- Encourage and foster associate development, professional growth, and provide an environment for associates to participate in process improvement efforts.- Actively participate in business planning, new service development, and other tactical departmental processes and procedures to identify service enhancement and internal productivity gains.- Maintains ongoing communication and positive working relationships with all associates, clients, business partners, vendors, and J.J. Keller departments.