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Export Development Canada | Exportation et développement Canada

Export finance, insurance, and market intelligence

Client Services Team Manager

Customer SupportConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • An undergraduate degree in business, finance, economics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • At least seven years of progressive experience in a call center, advice center, virtual bank, or financial services organization.
  • Strong proficiency in queue and service-level management, capacity planning, quality assurance, escalations, and operational performance.
  • Experience leading call center or virtual banking transformation projects, including process standardization, digital adoption, skills-based routing, automation, or continuous improvement.
  • Demonstrated ability to use data to improve customer and employee outcomes, productivity, and efficiency while maintaining quality, risk management, and compliance standards.
  • Strong change leadership, communication, and cross-functional influencing skills, with demonstrated courage and adaptability to lead in uncertainty.
  • Fluency in both of Canada's official languages, English and French.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop a bilingual client services team, fostering accountability, engagement, and a strong talent pipeline.
  • Apply workforce management best practices to optimize forecasting, planning, capacity, queues, service levels, quality, and business continuity.
  • Improve customer satisfaction and retention and first-contact resolution, while reducing customer effort and avoidable transfers.
  • Promote a digital-first, human-enabled model through self-service, knowledge tools, intelligent routing, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities.
  • Use customer, operational, and employee data to identify issues, set priorities, and improve performance.
  • Build strong relationships and collaborate with stakeholder teams across EDC to resolve complex issues and improve end-to-end service.
  • Standardize workflows, strengthen controls, and eliminate root causes of rework and inefficiency across the group.
  • Lead change with clarity, foster cross-functional coordination, and deliver business plans and key performance indicator commitments.
  • Provide occasional support to the team outside normal working hours when required.

Desired Qualifications

  • Leadership experience in a high-volume service environment, such as a call center, advice center, or virtual banking team within a financial institution, including performance coaching, talent development, and employee engagement.
  • Measurable results in customer satisfaction, first-contact resolution, digital adoption, service levels, employee engagement, retention, or cost of service.
  • Experience with Genesys, ServiceNow, Salesforce, or comparable customer relationship management, telephony, workforce management, quality management, knowledge management, and analytics platforms.
  • Experience supporting business customers in insurance or lending sectors.

About the Company

Export Development Canada | Exportation et développement Canada

Export finance, insurance, and market intelligence

Export Development Canada (EDC) is Canada’s export credit agency and a Crown corporation that helps Canadian businesses sell goods and services abroad. It offers financing, insurance, guarantees, market intelligence, and business connections to support companies of different sizes as they enter new markets and participate in international supply chains. EDC works across sectors including agri-food, energy and energy transition, critical minerals, advanced manufacturing, digital industries, and defence and security, and partners with financial institutions, government agencies, and other organizations to provide complementary trade and investment support. Its goal is to help Canadian exporters manage risk, secure the capital and information they need, and build global connections to grow international trade.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$1B
Headquarters
Ottawa, Canada
Founded
1944

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