Contact Center Practitioner

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In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

Responsible for answering customer queries, dealing with complaints, and providing potential customers with detailed information about our products. They interact with customers on a daily basis, helping them to understand their policies and answer any questions they may have about coverage or claims.

You should have a friendly and professional demeanor, good communication skills, and the ability to stay calm under pressure.

• Receives inbound calls to provide customer service support to policy holders, agents, 3rd party callers and new customers

• Conducts research through maximizing all available resources and provides the necessary information in response to queries from callers

• Provides resolutions to caller problems and issues including researching and exploring alternative solutions

• Creates promised solutions or after call work and escalates unresolved issues outside of his/her scope

• Accepts payment and initiates disbursement requests over the phone

• Navigates through a computerized data entry system or other relevant applications

• Manages documentation of all call information according to standard operating procedures

• Process callbacks for minor requests like faxing/emailing policy information, send letters to another address or confirmation of payments received

• Undertakes all compliance and regulatory training in line with company requirements

• Accountable in keeping up with process related learnings/training and meet performance standards set by the business

• Completes customer's transactional requests as provided by caller.

• Employs probing questions and actively listens to customer issues or questions, showing interest and compassion and displaying empathy for the caller's situation

• Demonstrates accuracy in processing changes to customer policies based on the information provided

• Actively listens to customer issues or questions, showing interest and compassion and displaying empathy for the caller's situation.

• Ensure facilitation of first call resolution and customer satisfaction on all transactions handled.

• Be able to handle any requests regarding customer documentation (to include all documents sent out by our company) and be able to clearly explain them including any follow-ups required on our customer's part.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Fresh graduates AND experienced professionals are accepted.

• If college undergraduate, 1-2yrs of relevant work experience in a call center is required.

• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.

• Knowledge in MS Office applications.

• Strong customer focus and adaptability to different personality types.

• Able to work in multi-shift environment, including holidays.

• Able to multi-task, set priorities and manage time effectively.

• Location: Must be willing to report onsite - UP Ayala Technohub, Diliman, Quezon City

• Shift: Night Shift

PROFESSIONALISM

• Demonstrate initiative and responsibility for actions.
• Work independently while maintaining an effective team member mentality.
• Maintain a strong record for attendance and punctuality in arriving at work; attendance and punctuality are mandatory during training - no exceptions.

LANGUAGE/COMMUNICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to read and interpret work-related documents.

• Ability to respond to routine correspondence.

• Ability to listen, speak, and interact effectively with all customers and co-workers, adapting communication for optimal understanding.

• Excellent verbal communication skills required; ability to practice professional telephone etiquette and techniques on all calls,

REASONING ABILITY

• Ability to understand and follow instructions, both written and verbal.

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND CONDITIONS

• Employee must be willing to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the account, including overtime, and emergency shifts.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.

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