The Client Support Specialist, Home Warranty will provide direct contact with Assurant's customers, high-profile client representatives, and service partners to reduce and resolve delays in service. All levels are responsible for building positive relationships with customers, service partners, and internal departments while providing paths to an efficient resolution.
** Please note that the schedule for this role is Tuesday-Friday (11am-8pm EST) and Saturday (8am-4pm EST) ***
Job Responsibilities
- Responsible for servicer inquiries through phone calls, emails, or webforms and complete incident management by investigating, troubleshooting, and resolving concerns through interactions with customers and service providers
- Support the claims process for repairs of home appliances, consumer electronics, plumbing, HVAC, & electrical systems
- Make repair and/or settlement decisions using appropriate steps to qualify and quantify the resolution from a cost saving and customer experience perspective within approved limits
- Utilize approved vendors to procure parts for service providers or customers to complete repairs
- Complete audits and validate incoming provider claims, settlements, service denials, and reimbursements to ensure accuracy and cost effectiveness before processing and providing payments while updating multiple channels with decision information
- Enforce independent servicer agreements and adhere to multi-client contract terms and conditions when making decisions
- Manage multiple issues/cases at one time simultaneously based on workload
- Analyze and act on the best possible outcome based on potential risk for an amicable resolution
- Required to log and track issues in multiple tracking systems for the purpose of generating reports and employee accountability
- Communicate with internal and external stakeholders in an effective, tactical, and empathetic manner with ongoing status and/or solution
- Responsible for drafting written correspondence to customers and service providers or in response to provider questions or escalations
- May identify opportunities for a process improvement for the betterment of the overall customer experience and/or Assurant Operations from a cost saving perspective
Basic Qualification - High School Diploma or GED
- 3 + years in Direct Customer Service to include escalation experience
- 2+ years in Business to Business or Vendor Customer Service
- 2 + years of experience in composing responses to external contacts
- Excellent Customer Service skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong ability to multitask
- Strong analytical and organizational skills
- Basic problem-solving skills
- Experience with Microsoft based programs and computer products
Preferred Skills - Experience with conflict resolution
- Prior retail or home warranty experience
- Experience in one or more of the Service Industries, to include: major appliances, consumer electronics, HVAC, lawn & garden, plumbing, electrical, fitness or large tools
- Strong problem-solving skills, with an attention to detail
- Associate degree in Business or Equivalent
- 3+ year in Vendor Management
- Strong understanding of client contracts, operations, company products & services
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ENT174 - Client Support Specialist
Job Grade
07
Pay Range:
$20.96 - $34.59
Any posted pay range considers a wide range of compensation factors, including candidate background, experience and work location, while also allowing for salary growth within the position.
If there is no posting end date then this is a pipeline requisition, and we will continue to collect applications on an ongoing basis.
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