Function Lead Centralized Services

Job Summary:

Responsible for acting as the front line leader for Centralized Services. Provides daily support to Centralized Services team members to ensure they provide a first in class experience to Walgreens patients and customers. Serves as an escalation point of contact for only the most complex or critical issues. Assigns, monitors and reviews the day-to-day work of team members and provides technical guidance. Ensures all matters are routed to the appropriate party or resolved.

Job Responsibilities:

• Resolves and/or provides technical advice on complex or critical issues that have been escalated from Senior level roles. Serves as a resource for all representatives. Seeks guidance from Group Supervisor for the most complex and critical issues, questions, or problems.
• Supervises daily activities of all team members for scheduled shift and provides feedback and coaching of team members according to quality standards. May intercede on communication with difficult customers or patients. Reports any necessary issues or concerns to Group Supervisor.
• Plans, prioritizes, organizes and completes work to meet established objectives.
• Monitors trends and notifies Group Supervisor of recurring or high priority issues. 
• Maintains records of customer interactions, records details, complaints, comments and action taken. Contacts customers to respond to escalated inquiries or to notify them of investigation results and planned adjustments.
• Continues to look for ways to improve current processes with enhancements and ideas. 
• Monitors team member performance by observing employee demeanor, technical accuracy and conformity to company policies. Improves performance of the department by building team morale, motivating team members and using constructive coaching. 
• Identifies areas where additional development is needed and makes recommendations on how to achieve necessary results.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local laws, as well as company and facility policies and procedures.  Maintains standards of performance in accordance with policies and procedures (e.g. HIPAA guidelines/regulations, insurance and fraud abuse guidelines, required productivity levels, timeliness expectations, etc.

About Walgreens

Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for pharmacy, retail and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.

External Basic Qualifications

• High school diploma/GED and at least three years of experience working in a Contact Center or Centralized Service setting or Bachelor’s Degree and at least one year of experience working in a Contact Center or Centralized Service setting.
• Experience in identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.
• Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Experience building and maintaining relationships within a team.
• Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
• Basic email skills, internet explorer (sending, receiving, and organizing communications).
• Basic level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: opening a workbook, inserting a row, selecting font style and size, formatting cells as currency, using copy, paste and save functions, aligning text, selecting cells, renaming a worksheet, inserting a column, selecting a chart style, inserting a worksheet, setting margins, selecting page orientation, using spell check and/or printing worksheets).
• Basic level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: opening a document, cutting, pasting and aligning text, selecting font type and size, changing margins and column width, sorting, inserting bullets, pictures and dates, using find and replace, undo, spell check, track changes, review pane and/or print functions).

Preferred Qualifications

• Bi-lingual in English and Spanish.
• Licensed as a Pharmacy Technician by the state Board of Pharmacy or nationally recognized certification agency and PTCB Certified.

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Job Function

Customer Contact Center

Common Location

8337 SOUTHPARK CIR,ORLANDO,FL,32819-09049-32073-M

Pay Type

Hourly

Start Rate

23.5

Maximum Rate

31.35