Customer Service Representative

Job Opportunity At Highmark Inc.

Job Summary: This job resolves standard and occasional non-standard customer inquiries, comments, and concerns by applying a seamless and positive customer experience gained through many recurring cycles of on the job work engagement.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Engages with customers in a confident and compelling manner, performing the full range of customer service duties and responsibilities, as assigned.
• Strives to resolve customer concerns in a single interaction via telephone, written, or face to face communication.
• Responds to a diverse set of customers with an equal level of confidence regardless of the issue at hand.
• Works independently of support from a senior customer service representative, frequently utilizing the knowledge center, answering customer inquiries.
• Routinely responds to customers with an in-depth product knowledge achieved through a continuously improving set of listening, analysis, quality focus, problem solving, and documentation skills.
• Consistently exceeds results for internal adherence, efficiency, and inquiry timeliness.
• Resolves standard and frequently non-routine, limited impact, customer inquiries, comments, and concerns with the most limited escalation consistent with company policies and processes.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Education:

• Required: High School Diploma/GED
• Substitutions: None
• Preferred: None

Experience:

• Required: 1-3 years experience in customer service or call center environment
• Preferred: None

Licenses or Certifications:

• Required: None
• Preferred: None

Skills:

• Applies in-depth product knowledge obtained through ongoing cycles of working with routine and non-routine subject matter
• Regardless of recurring and routine customer inquiries, comments, and concerns, approaches each and every interaction with superior listening skills
• Multi-tasks with a high level of efficiency yet treats every customer as the most important during the interaction so as not to leave the customer with a hurried impression
• Ability to ask effective probing and/or open and closed ended questions that will help in issue resolution in a conversational manner with customers, using verbal clues and system tools to develop tailored recommendations for the customer
• Ability to master initial training competencies while demonstrating the ability to learn additional competencies through additional training
• Ability to de-escalate challenging customer inquiries, comments, and concerns while delivering necessary information consistent with company policies and processes

Language Requirement (Other than English)? None

Travel Requirement: 0% - 25%

Physical, Mental Demands and Working Conditions:

• Position Type: Office-based Teaches/Trains others regularly Rarely Travels regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site Does Not Apply Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (Sales employees) Does Not Apply
• Physical Work Site Required: No
• Lifting up to 10 pounds: Rarely
• Lifting 10 to 25 pound: Rarely
• Lifting 25 to 50 pounds: Rarely

Disclaimer: The job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this job title. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.

Compliance Requirement: This job adheres to the ethical and legal standards and behavioral expectations as set forth in the code of business conduct and company policies.

Pay Range Minimum: $19.27 Pay Range Maximum: $26.88