Complaint & Escalation Supervisor Asurion - Singapore

The Complaint & Escalation Supervisor will provide assistance to other departments and directly to customers for assistance with issues outside of scope of usual business processes. This may include post-fulfillment calls (via transfers from frontline and tech support on escalated issues), voice messages, letters, outbound calls and e-mails from customers providing information, answers, assistance and resolution to complaints and general inquiries.  The Complaint & Escalation Supervisor will also be responsible for working with appropriate parties in other departments (i.e. TLC, Sales Channels, etc.) to resolve issues as they arise.  According to department needs, duties may include handling customer escalations, drafting internal or external communication pieces, researching the authenticity of service requests, checking the validity of police reports and other issues requiring research. Candidates must possess the ability to make sound business decisions that stay within the guidelines set by the company yet maximize customer satisfaction.  Performance in this role is measured by individual and team objectives. 

The Primary Duties and Responsibilities (including but not limited to):

• Promptly respond to escalated subscriber inquiries, compliments, or complaints directed to the Customer Satisfaction department.
• Effectively communicate changes to Asurion policies and / or procedures in a timely fashion.
• Resolve subscriber inquiries not resolved by or escalated beyond Customer Care.
• Perform subscriber intervention and notification on all back-order status, back-order release, of mobile equipment and accessories.
• Review and research service requests that require police reports or other types of validation.
• Manage trouble tickets, where customer satisfaction intervention is necessary.
• Work as liaison to other departments to identify subscriber service issues and to improve processes.
• Perform outbound calling campaigns as assigned.  Campaigns include, but are not limited to: Warehouse out of stock, Survey Callbacks, Backorder of inventory, back orders released, Purchase for Reimbursement, Exception handling, and Missed Shipments etc.
• Work as the subscriber/customer advocate, demonstrating proficiency in all care functions, including escalated issues, complaint resolution, replacements, and account retention, modifications, and reimbursements.
• Assist in developing tracking tools and progress reports within the customer satisfaction department.
• Resolve highly complex escalated issues and re-sell the benefits of Asurion products and services (customer retention).  Rebuild relationship,, perform required research and follow-up with subscribers to provide resolution to subscribers and various carrier contacts.
• Proactively communicate process improvement opportunities to reduce escalations and improve customer satisfaction.
• Track customer concerns, trends, program issues, product and service related problems for analysis and make recommendations to Asurion management for program, product and service improvement.
• Develop tracking tools and progress reports that can be used for trending and analysis of client relations and highly escalated customer issues.
• Interface closely with Service Quality and Ops Managers to champion required projects/process to successful completion, to include weekly feedback of coaching opportunities, unprofessional call center complaints that are identified via complaints received.
• Track client concerns, trends, program issues, product and service related problems for analysis and make recommendations to the client for program, product and service improvement.
• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned including (but not limited to) preparation and delivery of team meetings and game films.

Desired Skills and Experience

QUALIFICATIONS

•  Previous experience handling customer complaints and escalations
• College Degree or equivalent experience in the field.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Ability to work independently, with strong analytical reasoning.
• Internet savvy, strong knowledge of Microsoft Office product suite with particular emphasis on Microsoft Excel and Word.
• Proven commitment to deliver exceptional customer service
• Proven ability to work well with external and internal customers, business experience heavily skewed in Care operations.
• Good negotiation and account navigation skill sets.
• Proven ability to analyze and recommend business actions.
• Strong organizational, administrative, and time management skills.
• Ability to foster teamwork, and partner across functional areas and within Care to deliver seamless service to customers.
• Passion & ability to achieve goals, in a fast-paced, changing work environment.
• Detail-oriented with exceptional telephone skills.
• Ability to speak English and Mandarin an advantage

Important note: This is a contract opportunity. Interested candidates should be willing to take on a contract role for 6 months.

For the past 20 years, Asurion has helped people across the globe balance the interdependency between life and technology. 

Today, as the industry-defining leader of technology solutions, we ensure 300 million consumers’ devices and appliances stay online and on the job in this fast-moving, tech-driven world.

We help you retrieve the seventeenth (and perfect) picture of your dog in that sweater, and make sure the undeliverable email is delivered. We replace that lost phone, and make your TV shake hands with the Internet. We’re the silent partner in your video editing career, and the reason you can do that thing with the thing that makes beautiful music on your tablet.

We’re the people who know what the one button does. And why sometimes it does not.

We have always worked as though life depends on us. And, increasingly, it does.
Technology is virtually everywhere. It drives performance at work, powers a growing number of tasks at home, and guides us as we move between the two.

At Asurion, we not only understand technology, we appreciate the value of it. Life without the laptops, devices, and apps we become accustomed to can become very challenging, very quickly. And as your home’s devices become interconnected, the stakes become even higher.

We’re a technology company. But we’re also an amazing group of people. When you call us, you’ll talk to people with the patience and experience to genuinely help. We understand what it’s like to have a cell phone fall in the swimming pool or a hard drive crash on a term paper.
We replace. We fix. We find. We solve. We keep you in the game.

Asurion ensures technology and people are harmonious. And your life is in balance. We do so across the digitally connected globe, by speaking six languages, and by working across any device, platform or provider.

There’s only one system like ours on earth, and it took two decades of innovating, and empathizing, to build.

Asurion. Life’s Operating System.