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Customer Care Team Lead

KMC Solutions Inc

About this role

Team Leadership and People Management

  • Lead, guide, and support a team of Customer Care Specialists across assigned voice and non-voice channels.

  • Set clear performance and behavioral expectations and reinforce accountability for attendance, schedule adherence, quality, productivity, customer experience, and compliance.

  • Conduct regular team huddles, one-on-one discussions, coaching sessions, and performance reviews.

  • Identify skill gaps and coordinate training, refresher sessions, nesting support, and performance improvement actions.

  • Promote collaboration, professionalism, employee engagement, and a customer-focused culture.

  • Address attendance, conduct, and performance concerns promptly and document actions in accordance with company policy.

Omnichannel Operations and Queue Management

  • Oversee daily operations across inbound and outbound calls, email, social media, and online community platforms.

  • Monitor queue conditions, staffing coverage, workload distribution, backlog, response times, and service-level performance.

  • Recommend or implement channel reassignments based on queue demand, staffing levels, operational priorities, employee readiness, and demonstrated proficiency.

  • Ensure agents transition between channels in an organized manner and receive the required briefing, system access, training, and support.

  • Coordinate with Workforce Management and Operations on schedules, breaks, shift coverage, overtime, leave impact, and intraday staffing adjustments.

  • Provide floor support and maintain leadership visibility during critical operating periods.

Performance Management and Coaching

  • Monitor individual and team performance against approved key performance indicators, service standards, quality requirements, and productivity expectations.

  • Review performance data, customer feedback, case outcomes, quality findings, and behavioral observations to identify trends and improvement opportunities.

  • Provide timely, specific, and documented coaching with clear actions, ownership, and follow-through.

  • Recognize strong performance and recommend appropriate development or recognition opportunities.

  • Partner with Quality, Training, Workforce Management, Human Resources, and Operations on corrective or developmental interventions when required.

Customer Escalation and Case Management

  • Own or support complex, critical, sensitive, or unresolved customer concerns that require leadership intervention.

  • Guide agents in identifying customer needs, applying troubleshooting steps, selecting appropriate resolutions, and determining when escalation is required.

  • Ensure escalated cases are routed to the correct team, monitored, followed up, accurately documented, and closed within established requirements.

  • Communicate with customers professionally when handling escalations and set clear expectations on next steps and resolution ownership.

  • Identify recurring failure points and recommend corrective actions to reduce repeat contacts and prevent avoidable escalations.

Quality, Compliance, and Documentation

  • Ensure customer interactions, transactions, case notes, and resolutions are complete, accurate, and properly documented.

  • Reinforce adherence to company policies, client requirements, approved procedures, regulatory obligations, data privacy standards, and information security controls.

  • Conduct or support interaction reviews, quality calibrations, case audits, and documentation checks.

  • Ensure agents verify customer information and process payments, refunds, billing adjustments, account changes, cancellations, and related transactions in accordance with approved controls.

  • Escalate suspected compliance breaches, data incidents, process gaps, or control failures through the appropriate channels.

Social Media, Community, and Reputational Risk Management

  • Oversee responses to customer inquiries, complaints, comments, and service concerns across assigned social media and community platforms.

  • Ensure public and private responses are accurate, timely, professional, brand-safe, and appropriate to the channel and situation.

  • Monitor emerging concerns, brand mentions, customer sentiment, trending issues, potentially viral cases, and reputational risks.

  • Escalate material or sensitive online concerns promptly and coordinate response handling with the appropriate stakeholders.

  • Guide content moderation, community engagement, event coverage support, and multi-channel content review when assigned.

Sales, Retention, and Customer Experience

  • Ensure agents identify customer needs and present suitable products, services, upgrades, bundles, or retention options in accordance with approved guidelines.

  • Monitor the quality and accuracy of sales and retention conversations and reinforce fair, transparent, and customer-appropriate recommendations.

  • Use customer feedback and interaction trends to recommend improvements to processes, knowledge content, customer journeys, and service delivery.

Reporting and Continuous Improvement

  • Prepare and communicate accurate performance updates, operational summaries, escalation reports, action plans, and other required documentation.

  • Analyze recurring customer concerns, contact drivers, operational risks, service gaps, and process defects.

  • Raise trends that may affect customer volume, service levels, quality, compliance, or brand reputation.

  • Partner with relevant teams to implement corrective actions and track progress through completion.

  • Support operational readiness for new products, campaigns, policy changes, tools, processes, and channel expansions.

Decision-Making and Escalation Authority

  • Make day-to-day decisions on work allocation, queue support, coaching priorities, and case ownership within approved operational guidelines.

  • Approve or recommend customer remedies, schedule adjustments, and operational actions within assigned authority limits.

  • Escalate matters involving significant customer impact, potential reputational risk, compliance exposure, data privacy, information security, financial risk, employee relations, or service disruption.

  • Ensure decisions outside delegated authority are referred to the appropriate manager or functional owner.

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