Customer service and sales supervisor | Columbia, MO

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  • Location: Columbia, MO

of sales and customer service to prospective and existing customers of Socket by regularly communicating departmental goals and plans; coaching on sales and customer service processes and procedures; monitoring the productivity and quality of agents; interviewing potential new hires; and monitoring and reporting on sales and service metrics.

The individual oversees scheduling, training, career development, counseling, and makes recommendations regarding personnel issues. The individual in this position reports to the Customer Service and Marketing Manager. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: include the following. Other duties may be assigned. To perform this job successfully, an individual

must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Supervise and coordinate the activities of CS and Sales agents to ensure a consistent customer experience across all shifts and roles. Adhere to and enforce all applicable Socket policies and procedures, using disciplinary action when required. Ensure customer communications are documented according to departmental procedures. Monitor call statistics, random inbound and outbound calls, data entry, and written correspondence

to ensure customer service is delivered in a positive, consistent, efficient, and timely manner.

Provide direction for solving difficult problems by offering guidance to agents to help them determine when calls need to be escalated. Interface with other departments to identify who should receive escalated calls. Maintain responsibility of escalated calls to ensure they are handled to department standards and customers are kept up to date. Review escalated issues to ensure they're handled to departmental standards and to identify possible trends that may be avoided through improved training material. Responsible for assisting with call volume and work load when the volume of work peaks above what any Leads or agents are capable of completing in a timely manner.

Ensure the sales and customer service department provides sufficient backup to the Technical Support and Business Center in-bound phone queues. Collaborate with the Technical Support Supervisor, and the Customer Service and Marketing Manager to develop and review departmental goals for sales quotas, queue metrics, and other call center operations. Collaborate with the Customer Service and Marketing Manager to identify resources necessary to achieve sales and queue goals, as well as identifying reward, bonus, and incentive schemes.

Attend weekly scheduled meetings with Tier III Agents, the Technical Support, Business Center, and Fulfillment Supervisors, and Customer Service and Marketing Manager to report on call volume, personnel, scorecard numbers, ongoing issues, and new business, in order to maintain the departments work schedule and ensure adequate staffing across all shifts. Assist with festivals and trade shows, by attending and staffing shows to provide answers for customer inquiries and generate leads and sales. Relay CSS ideas and concerns to applicable departments.

Perform other duties as assigned. Supervisory Responsibilities: Supervise and coach a team of 10-15 CS and Sales agents. Responsible for addressing the complaints of personnel and resolving their work related problems. Review hours worked on a weekly basis to identify scheduling issues. Provide pay period reports to the human resources department. Tailor reports and track other data at the discretion of the accounting office and human resources department. Schedule and attend quarterly departmental meetings to discuss trends and upcoming events, provide training, review and communicate departmental goals, and answer agent questions.

Coordinate and provide career development and counseling. Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Oversee scheduling and staffing based on day of week, sales promotions, other anticipated events, and PBX data, Scheduling agents to cover customer workload demands. Complete performance evaluations in a timely fashion. Make recommendations regarding staffing, promotions, discipline, and discharges. Coordinate and provide career development, counseling, and training as needed.

Organize and effectively schedule multiple projects or tasks to meet simultaneous deadlines and shifting priorities. Effectively delegate tasks and projects so agents understand their assignments, their authority, and their deadline. Ensure agents receive appropriate training by scheduling formal training courses and providing on-going training on service issues, procedures, policies, tools, products/services, sales, and customer service skills. Identify potential new hires by reviewing applications for employment, then scheduling and completing first interviews. Recommend second interviews to the Customer Service and Marketing Manager.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: High school diploma or equivalent required. Associate's degree from a two-year college or four years related experience and/or training equivalent in customer care, including at least two years providing or leading direct technical support, customer service, or sales preferred. PI35c06da308d For more details: jobs-search. org/finance_columbia-c437651/customer-service-and-sales-supervisor-columbia_i1974160143

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