Client Support Specialist

The Client Support Specialist will provide direct contact to Assurant's customers, high-profile client representatives, and service partners to reduce and resolve service delays. This role is responsible for building positive relationships with customers, service partners, and internal departments while providing paths to an efficient resolution.

What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?

• Responsible for customer escalations and/or servicer inquiries through phone calls, emails, or webforms and complete incident management by investigating, troubleshooting, and resolving concerns through interactions with customers and service providers
• Support the claims process for repairs of home appliances, consumer electronics, plumbing, HVAC, & electrical systems
• Make repair and/or settlement decisions using appropriate steps to qualify and quantify the resolution from a cost saving and customer experience perspective within approved limits
• Utilize approved vendors to procure parts for service providers or customers to complete repairs
• Complete audits and validate incoming provider claims, settlements, service denials, and reimbursements to ensure accuracy and cost effectiveness before processing and providing payments while updating multiple channels with decision information
• Enforce independent servicer agreements and adhere to multi-client contract terms and conditions when making decisions
• Manage multiple issues/cases at one time simultaneously based on workload
• Analyze and act on the best possible outcome based on potential risk for an amicable resolution
• Required to log and track issues in multiple tracking systems for the purpose of generating reports and employee accountability
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders in an effective, tactical, and empathetic manner with ongoing status and/or solution
• Responsible for drafting written correspondence to customers and service providers or in response to customer questions or escalations
• May identify opportunities for a process improvement for the betterment of the overall customer experience and/or Assurant Operations from a cost saving perspective

What are the requirements needed for this position?

• 3 + years in Direct Customer Service to include escalation experience
• 2+ years in Business to Business or Vendor Customer Service
• 2 + years in experience in composing responses to external contacts

What other skills/experience would be helpful to have?

• Associate degree in Business or equivalent
• 3+ years in Vendor Management
• 3+ years experience within Connected Living

ENT3089 - Client Support Specialist, In Home Solutions

Job Grade
06

Pay Range:
$19.08 - $30.53

Any posted pay range considers a wide range of compensation factors, including candidate background, experience and work location, while also allowing for salary growth within the position.

If there is no posting end date then this is a pipeline requisition, and we will continue to collect applications on an ongoing basis.

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Company Overview
Assurant is a leading global business services company that supports, protects, and connects major consumer purchases. A Fortune 500 company with a presence in 21 countries, Assurant supports the advancement of the connected world by partnering with the world's leading brands to develop innovative solutions and deliver an enhanced customer experience through mobile device solutions, extended service contracts, vehicle protection services, renters insurance, lender-placed insurance products, and other specialty products.

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