AVP- Contact Centre - Customer Care Unit

Company Description

Looking to join the #1 bank in the UAE and one of the most prestigious in the region? We're looking for professionals who are driven, skilled, and ready to take on new challenges. Together, we can achieve our goals, making a lasting impact on both our company and the industry as a whole.

Join us and leave your mark on the industry. Let's work together to achieve great things and unlock new possibilities for our employees, customers, and communities.

Job Description

JOB PURPOSE: To lead the Customer Care Unit (CCU) team that has the responsibilities for resolving customer register requests/Emails in a timely manner with utmost focus on customer satisfaction and experience thus building customer loyalty.

Key Accountabilities

Units Supervision and Team Managers

Organise and supervise the work of the assigned team to ensure that all work within a specific area of the activity is carried out in an efficient manner, which is consistent with operating procedures and policy.

Provide on-the-job training and constructive feedback to assigned team to support their overall development.

Promote the organisation’s values and ethics in all activities within the team in order to support the establishment of a value drive culture within the bank.

Provide guidance and on the job training for junior colleagues and conduct knowledge sharing to facilitate achievement of team objectives and completion of tasks in an efficient manner which is consistent with operating procedures and policy.

Promote the organisation’s values and ethics in all activities within the team to support the establishment of a value drive culture within the bank.

Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures

Provide inputs and implement policies, systems and procedure for the assigned team so that all relevant procedural/legislative requirements, fulfilled while delivering a quality, cost-effective service.

Continuous Improvement

Participate in the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement and sustainability of systems, processes and practices considering global standards, productivity improvement and cost reduction.

Reporting

Prepare sectional statements and reports timely and accurately to meet FAB and Unit requirements and quality standards

Job Context

Rincipal Duties & Responsibilities

Manage the Customer Care Unit to achieve and maintain agreed service level targets, ensuring adequate Service Quality of FAB towards assigned Channels:

CCU – Service Request Process Team,

Atyourservice Team: Email interaction Team with FAB Customer’s

Ensure the provision of the necessary training and motivation to develop a team of staff capable of delivering exceptional service, focusing, in particular, on their problem solving and communication skills.

Take lead and ownership, for individual request cases which are escalated to the senior management, regulator(s), media etc.

Liaise with Customer Experience team on the Root Cause Analysis on the Major logged Requests with FAB and implement enhancement.

Liaise with Customer Experience team to produce management information, and develop the best practice for Service Requests handling across all teams

Take appropriate action to deal with any identified issues, either with the service being provided to the customers from across all channels and enablement functions.

Manage, understand and control costs within the unit in order to enable the improvement of profitability and productivity and the identification of areas of strong or weak performance.

Identify opportunities to enhance and improve business processes and/or support systems in the area and communicate these to the relevant people in business lines responsible for dealing with them and identified decision makers within the business.

Ensuring Audit and Risk Compliance for all alternate Units

Providing professional advice and alternatives/solutions to customers' Complaints and queries using knowledge of bank's products and services to assure no breaching of Central Bank Regularity

Planning and organizing resolution in coordination with other businesses and relevant departments.

Frameworks, Boundaries, & Decision-making Authority

Functions within the framework and boundaries of Group policies as well as overall organisational and governance frameworks.

Check and Confirm with Unit Head on the Authorised to take decisions as per the approved authorisation matrix.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification

Bachelor’s degree

Essential

Minimum Experience

Proven experience in managing and motivating teams of people.

Graduate with 5 years’ experience within customer service industry, banking in specific

Experience of working within a Contact Centre environment

Good knowledge of local work legislation applicable to the call centre environment.

Desirable

Strong understanding of Contact Centre technology, electronic access methods, such as workflow management software.

Strong understanding of Operations and Customer services processes.

Personal

Strong problem-solving ability

Excellent leadership capabilities for managing and motivating large teams

Excellent interpersonal understanding

Excellent written and spoken communication, both in English, local language is a plus

Negotiation skills