Customer Care III - Mountain and Pacific Time Zones Preferred

Customer Care III - Preferred Mountain and Pacific time zones with salaries based on location and starting pay rate of $21.00 with a 3% annual bonus target.

Position Summary

The Customer Care Associate role supports Guardian’s mission to keep our promises and serve more people by providing effortless and exceptional service to our voice/telephone inquiries from insured members, employers, brokers, and sales for benefits, billing, eligibility, claim status, and all other miscellaneous inquiries following process and procedures that provide accurate, complete, and thorough service resolution. When needed, this role investigates customers’ service issues and proactively resolves problems by documenting details of telephone conversations and the actions taken.

Qualified candidates who move forward in the process can expect the following:

• An invitation to take a 15-minute candidate assessment will be sent via email through our third-party vendor, Glider. There will be a series of questions related to your experience in handling various customer issue examples, your internet connectivity, and your typing accuracy and speed.
• Selected candidates will then be scheduled to interview with our customer service leadership team via Microsoft Teams video-based interviewing. You will be asked to provide specific examples of your professional experiences.
• Candidates that have been chosen to move forward will be made an offer of employment within one week of the interview, typically in a group setting via Microsoft Teams. This will foster the same sense of community that you will find in training as well as in your career at Guardian.

Candidate Responsibilities

• Responds to phone, email, and chat customer inquiries
• Ability to move between different functions as needed
• Triages & assesses inquiry root cause to determine effective resolution and or response
• Utilizes multiple systems to assess, customer inquiries and provide timely and accurate resolution
• Optimizes the use of call, email and chat communication channels while receiving high voice of customer (VOC) survey scores
• Adheres to schedule and uses scheduling tools appropriately. Must also comply with departmental scheduling policy and practice
• Builds immediate rapport with the customer
• Achieves strong customer satisfaction and loyalty by providing a positive Customer Experience through responsive, thorough, and effective service
• Works collaboratively with back-office areas and departments to research and correct customer issues and provide effective, timely resolution
• Leverages strong insurance background to resolve customer inquiries towards effective customer resolution
• Possesses knowledge of company procedures and demonstrates technical and soft-skill knowledge to handle the different types of service inquiries
• Processes changes …