Client Experience Representative I- Ask Unum

Unum • Portland, ME

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive. Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today! This advanced front-line service professional role is accountable for in force service execution, customer relationship management, and service. This is the first point of contact for all in force service-related inquiries that will directly influence/drive future business while representing a key component in the successful implementation of the growth strategy. Developing strong credibility through exceptional execution of service responsiveness will require critical thinking skills and seamless delivery of an extremely complex, broad-range, expansive knowledge and expertise across multiple products, services, and platforms of the integrated service model. This role will provide highly responsive service to plan administrators, brokers and field partners working in close partnership with internal business partners to achieve common goals/objectives up to and including enhance broker relationships, influence persistency, and new business opportunities. Service will range throughout multiple lines of business relative to any inquiry and communication will be facilitated through different mediums (telephone, email, chat, written correspondence). Unum and Colonial Life are part of Unum Group, a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits to companies worldwide. Headquartered in Chattanooga, TN, with international offices in Ireland, Poland and the UK, Unum also has significant operations in Portland, ME, and Baton Rouge, LA - plus over 35 US field offices. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia, SC, with over 40 field offices nationwide. Unum is an equal opportunity employer, considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement, and advancement, without regard to a person's race, color, religion, national origin, age, genetic information, military status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or protected veteran status. At Unum Group, we’re a Fortune 500 company and leading international provider of workplace benefits and services, helping workers and their families thrive for more than 175 years. Through our Unum and Colonial Life brands, our company offers disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental and vision insurance; leave and absence management support; and behavioral health services. Our 10,000+ employees work across operations in the US, UK and Poland, as well as our dedicated Technology Centre in Ireland. Unum Group is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for any applicant with a disability. If you are disabled and need a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or hiring process, please contact us by submitting a request here.

Requirements

• Minimum starting hourly rate is $24.04 per hour.
• Experienced customer service professional with 3+ years required
• Solid understanding of the marketplace - value of brokers, agents, and clients and challenges of plan administrators
• Demonstrated critical thinking practices and strategic/forward thinker
• Strong ability to examine and make decisions (often unique and individualized) with a great deal of discretion and draw own conclusions
• Operate with urgency in a real-time service and multifaceted environment
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills and acts with a sense of urgency in responding to internal and external customers
• Strong communication skills including written/verbal
• Provides leadership to the other team members
• Demonstrates strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Interacts effectively at all levels of the organization on both a strategic and tactical level
• Proven ability to work under pressure, managing a complex and fast paced workload while simultaneously changing direction based on modification of business priorities.
• Embraces and leads change to improve process, efficiency, and service
• Demonstrates consistency in accuracy, speed, and quality of work
• Supports extended hours of coverage, including working evening shifts as needed

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Engage in education to continually retain deep/broad knowledge of voluntary benefits and group administration to respond to any type of inquiry leveraging a multitude of systems/workflows.
• Ability to attain and retain specific subject matter expertise as may be requested for designated service support.
• Meet individual goals with a continuous focus on team results.
• Provide mentor/coaching/training support to team members and other partner areas
• Make discretionary/exception decisions based on record, case, and circumstance.
• Be a strong advocate for the adoption of digital tools (MyUnum, Colonial Life for Clients Portal, etc.) for clients, agents and brokers through education and sharing the value to improve adoption, utilization, and overall customer satisfaction.
• Develop, strengthen, and build deep relationships with plan administrators, brokers, home, and field office partners while exemplifying a high degree of professionalism.
• Serve as a dedicated resource to provide service support for select broker, agent and/or plan administrator partners, as primary priority within role, as needed.
• Offer/promote capabilities by aligning customer needs with the target offering; provide clear, concise communications involving persuasion, negotiation and/or education always driving toward customer self-sufficiency.
• Comfort with outbound educational call outreach.
• Anticipate and represent the needs/expectations of plan administrators/brokers.
• Have the foresight to utilize knowledge/skills to adjust service as expectations evolve in the service model and/or custom-base modifications and digital assets.
• Achieve high customer satisfaction of ongoing administration processes.
• Research, evaluate and respond to service issues.
• Reliance on advanced problem-solving skills, exceptional communication skills, strong product/risk knowledge and process expertise.
• Partner with field through escalation of growth and/or at-risk indicators.
• Reflect a sense of customer intimacy – know who the customer is, what products they have with us and what their recent interaction history includes.
• Utilize this customer knowledge to proactively educate and influence clients, agents, and brokers on digital assets.
• Establish strong partnerships with relevant partner areas (e.g., Integrated Client Services, Benefits, Colonial Life Billing and other customer service or administration roles).
• Help identify and support change initiatives to improve workflow, enhance customer service and reduce operating costs.
• Recognize trends and root causes; create solutions to prevent future occurrences.
• Act as an advocate for the field offices by surfacing trends/sales barriers/service model breakdowns to appropriate partners.
• May perform other duties as assigned including special projects/initiatives.

Benefits

• Award-winning culture
• Inclusion and diversity as a priority
• Performance Based Incentive Plans
• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability
• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)
• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution
• Mental health support
• Career advancement opportunities
• Student loan repayment options
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible work environments
• healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental)
• insurance benefits (short & long-term disability)
• performance-based incentive plans
• paid time off
• a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree