Role Purpose:

As a Global Complaints Team Lead at Wise, you will be instrumental in ensuring that our customers receive exceptional service and that their concerns are addressed promptly and effectively. Your primary purpose will be to execute a robust complaints management strategy that aligns with regulatory standards and supports our commitment to transparency and customer satisfaction.

You will lead a dedicated team of Complaints Officers, providing guidance, coaching, and support to ensure that all complaints are handled efficiently and in accordance with established procedures. By analysing complaints data and identifying underlying trends, your aim will be addressing root causes and enhancing our overall customer experience. This role offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams and influence the development of products and processes to minimise complaints and optimise customer outcomes.

Manages the Complaints team on an individual and team level:

People Management-providing ongoing coaching and mentoring to support individual growth and development in weekly check-in sessions and monthly 1x1 sessions.
Making sure team members complete training and team’s knowledge is up to date with regulatory and compliance related matters.
Manage their teams capacity, plan in advance and hire in line with company policy when there is a need to scale the team further.
Absence management of their team (team holidays are taken, documented on Workday and relevant excel sheets) time entries are double checked and approved before payroll cut-off.
Keeping team members engaged through organising team building activities and events.

Performance Management:

Own the performance of your team and deliver departmental KPI's that enable the Complaints function to be successful.
Setting clear quantitative / qualitative and behavioural performance expectations, assessing performance against KPIs, and providing regular feedback to help team members improve
Has great knowledge of complaints jurisdictions targets and KPIs- Is available for the team when they need support.

Execute on strategy and improve operational efficiency:

Aligning team objectives with broader organisational goals, ensuring the team is clear on the strategy and understands how their work supports it, and developing strategies to achieve targets.
Play a key role in terms of stakeholder management. Provide support to stakeholders, build relationships with them and seek feedback from them and manage their expectations.
Serve as a subject matter expert on complaints management during cross-functional projects, providing guidance on best practice and regulatory requirements.
Maintain a proactive approach to risk management, identifying emerging trends and potential issues and help deliver strategies to mitigate risks associated with complaints.
Continuously evaluate and enhance the operational delivery of complaints, as per the strategy, to drive improvements in their team`s performance, customer experience and compliance.
Ensure that all complaint handling activities are properly documented and recorded in accordance with regulatory requirements. This includes maintaining detailed records of complaints, responses, and resolution outcomes, as well as preparing regular reports on complaint handling metrics and trends for management review.
Develop talent mapping approaches that help identify everything from future talent that requires nurturing to current gaps within the performance of your team.
Remedy any performance gaps utilising the relevant people policy as a guideline.

Change Management:

Suggest innovative solutions and best practice to reduce complaint resolution times and enhance the overall quality of responses to customer concerns.
Using data and analytics, identify recurring issues and root causes of complaints leading to targeted process improvements and service enhancements.
Actively participate in effective change management by communicating changes to their team and stakeholders.
Help create and maintain a culture of continuous learning and improvement, encouraging experimentation and knowledge sharing to drive innovation.
Suggest continuous improvement initiatives within the complaints team to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and customer satisfaction. This includes soliciting feedback from team members, analysing performance metrics, and implementing process improvements to streamline workflows and reduce turnaround times.

Customer Experience Enhancement:

Execute strategies and initiatives to enhance customer experience through effective complaints resolution and proactive management.
Implement feedback loops to capture customer insights and integrate them into initiatives that support service improvement and product development.
Champion a customer-centric approach to complaints handling, advocating for proactive communication.
Act as the voice of the customer from a complaints perspective, ensuring that you make a valid contribution to efforts that gravitate around improving our customer's service experience.
Advocate for the needs and interests of customers within the organisation, ensuring that complaints are addressed promptly, fairly, and transparently. This involves representing the voice of the customer in internal discussions and decision-making processes, and advocating for changes or improvements to products, services, or processes based on customer feedback.

Continuous Professional Development

Stay current with industry trends, best practice and emerging technology in complaints management.
Work on complaints regularly and also escalated cases to make sure your product knowledge is on a high level.
Pursue professional development opportunities such as certifications, workshops and conferences related to customer advocacy and complaints management.

About you:

You’re experienced — with a background in Complaints or Customer Experience.
You’re a leader — you have a track record of driving change and innovation while aligning your team with organisational goals.
You’re a problem solver — you identify impactful problems and ensure ownership and resolution.
You empower your team — you adapt your leadership style to coach and support team members and foster career growth.
You manage performance effectively — you set clear expectations, coach your team, and provide actionable feedback.
You’re a change champion — you embrace new solutions and drive process improvements, never settling for "good enough."
You make data-driven decisions — you confidently use data and key metrics to guide your team and enhance performance and impact.
You’re customer-focused — you provide clarity on customer needs and ensure team goals prioritise customer impact.
You communicate openly — you model inclusive leadership and encourage respectful and transparent communication.
You take ownership — you fully commit to your responsibilities, always striving to meet or exceed performance targets.

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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