Customer Service Team Lead I

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

This job involved leading a team of Property claims processing specialists whose primary role involved in supporting the data entry updates with regards to pre-fill activity. As part of the role the teams review images and documentation received with regards on the claims and as per guidelines update the information into the relevant fields with the systems. Details are shared virtually with the team and the primary resposibility for the speciaist is to accurately review the documenation and accordingy update details into the necessary tools and systems. The role would require the lead to aptly scale up towards assessing inputs on the pre-fill template as per Allstate guidelines. Managing tasks and workflows inaccordance to set standards and ensuring necessary claims processing guidelines and authourity limits are being adhered to through the process. Handling new hire training and transitions for the scope of services. Will need to have a high interest in driving domain certification and effectively collaborate with our Learning and Development partners to execute on industry certifications and training programs. Monitoring the KPI health of the business and ensuring claims severity and quality of reviwes meet agreed standards. Interact with stateside partners and provide necessary reporting across people and process KPI’s. Lead teams of high performing individuals, execute on actions and initiatives in line with organization culture. Collaborate across multiple cross functional teams (not limited to Technology, Hiring, Training, Quality). Develop talent and create an environment of trust and motivation in which team can thrive and drive results.

Ensure knowledge upkeep of the property specialists and adherence to standards and KPI’s Proactively identify challenges from a delivery/operational perspective and build out recovery action plans Accuracy of line items and Quality of pre-fill meet set standard and increase STP of Claims to downstream teams Drive Transformation outcomes through digital and operational levers Fair practices to manage tasks and have a Claims ownership mindset Continually focusing on enhancing Customer Experience and influencing strategic goals and objectives Ensure specialists are adhering to processing guidelines and effectively updating any inputs with regards to the claims with necessary accuracy Build expertise within the property claims teams and be able to perform pre-fill tasks with necessary accuracy and efficiency Retention of talent is key and ensure all EWS procedures and stability reporting is in place ·         Participate in Transition related calls and share relevant updates with regards to the team (Knowledge Transfer/Training Progress Updates/Health review of team) Review Inspire and Barometer survey outcomes and build actionable plans to sustain targets Optimum resource utilization across the team and actively manage the demand/capacity basis volume inflow Conduct process trainings / refresher trainings / Feedback sessions across the team Walk the Talk by leading the way with Continuous improvement best practices – rigor with daily huddles, performance/ knowledge management, build resiliency through training etc. Initiate Ideation sessions and identify problem areas across the process lifecycle Deliver operational efficiencies through defined levers Arrange and attend business meetings (in-person/virtually) Monthly/Quarterly/Annual Performance tracking and management for people and business with necessary