Claims Manager
• Developed a Quality Assurance (QA) form, based on my 17 years of phone knowledge, to assist the company in identifying customer service issues and skillsets that needed improvement.• Created a scorecard for the Claims and Service Departments, polling data for the past year, to show where the strengths and weaknesses were to provide value and measurable metrics to the department. • In charge of interviews and onboarding for the Claims Department.o Of the class of 9 onboarded, all 9 made it through training and surpassed the 90-day mark. On average only 40-50% of people make it through training and only 70% of those make it past the 90-day mark.• Assisted with interviews and onboarding for the Service team.• Started peer to peer up skill training to alleviate a gap in processing skillsets which lead to faster processing time.o Everyone was trained in 2-4 additional processing areas. o Scheduled re-training for those that said they were not proficient in any area. • Developed proper metrics for the new call system such as Average Call Wait (ACW), Average Handle Time (AHT), Away Time, Hold Time and more.• Developed and trained management staff on how to pull reports from the new call system. This included information such as tracking for computer issues and those not responding to calls in addition to the metrics listed above.• Created training document and refence materials for retrieving recorded calls out of the call system for review.• Member of Quality Assurance (QA) team which involved reviewing recorded phone calls for team and procedure improvement.• Developed time-building activities to increase team and department moral which lead to higher employee retention.• Assisted HR in dealing with difficult/sensitive employee situations.• Self-taught basic training on annuities to provide better assistance to the team.