Senior Associate, Contact Center Quality & Training

If you’re looking for a meaningful career, you’ll find it here at Webster. Founded in 1935, our focus has always been to put people first--doing whatever we can to help individuals, families, businesses and our colleagues achieve their financial goals. As a leading commercial bank, we remain passionate about serving our clients and supporting our communities. Integrity, Collaboration, Accountability, Agility, Respect, Excellence are Webster’s values, these set us apart as a bank and as an employer.  

Come join our team where you can expand your career potential, benefit from our robust development opportunities, and enjoy meaningful work!

The Senior Quality/Training Associate will monitor Contact Center interactions and service requests to analyze and evaluate client service skills against established quality metrics, including but not limited to call process measurements, accuracy of the information, effective call management and demonstrated professionalism.  Assist in analyzing deficiencies in service or performance and recommend service improvements to address issues. The Senior Quality/Training Associate will support with coaching and training expectations along with partnering with the instructional designer to help create/maintain our development program. This role will support end-to-end design and lead needs assessments, design, development, implementation, and evaluation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Rate calls and processes according to pre-defined criteria and record results for reporting purposes.   

• Document quality issues and performance measures, analyze results and recurring trends and provide feedback to colleagues and managers. 

• Assist with tracking progress of quality team members, works with Manager to recommend action plans for colleagues who are not meeting established standards, 

• Contribute to continuous improvement principles by actively participating in group discussions and calibration sessions, identifying issues/potential solutions, participating in root cause problem solving sessions and recommending improvements to work procedures and other process tools/templates. 

• Complete all assigned tasks within the appropriate timeframes.  

• Balance multiple priorities throughout the day to ensure the best experience for our clients and colleagues.   

• Demonstrate flexibility working with internal contact center partners for coaching needs. 

• Support the achievement of high services standards to attain contact center CSAT/Quality scores. 

• Score using active listening and client engagement methods in conjunction with appropriate systems and tools. 

• Maintain, and apply quality assurance processes, procedures, formats, quality standards and corrective actions.   

• Analyze deficiencies in service or performance and recommend service improvements to address issues.  

• Identify opportunities to achieve client operational excellence through feedback and engagement.  

• May support training sessions. 

• Remain knowledgeable on products, services, and processes by keeping up to date on training materials and procedure documentation. 

• Assist in tracking trends and making recommendations for refresher and/or up-training.  

• Follow all standardized workflows and procedures.   

• Support contact center initiatives and programs as needed  

• Enhances the learning experience through design of learning activities, assignments, and assessments to engage learners so they retain knowledge and skills. 

• Ensures all materials are prepared and formatted for accessibility in the Learning Management System. 

• Utilizes adult learning theory principles. 

• Other duties as assigned  

Experience:

• 2-4 years client support experience in a high-volume Contact Center with 2+ years of experience in a Training and /or Quality Assurance role

• Experience measuring employee performance including coaching to call center metrics

• At least 1 year training delivery experience in a formal or informal setting

• Extensive practical knowledge of MS Office tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

• Candidates with advanced degrees (Associates, Bachelor’s and/or Master’s) preferred yet a High School Diploma or GED is required.

• Candidates with some combination of coursework and experience, or extensive related professional experience, are eligible for consideration

• Demonstrated experience using eLearning development tools such as Articulate Storyline, Rise, Adobe Captivate, Zenerate or similar authoring tools.

• Strong critical thinking skills and a strategic mindset * Customer-focused, results oriented; team building skills; self-motivated; collaborative; ability to oversee projects and meet deadlines.

• Experience in training delivery in a formal or informal setting

• Proficient in MS office and Workday Learning

• Excellent organization, presentation, and communication skills.

• Ability to interact with all levels of staff, including senior management.

Specific Skills:

• Leadership, coaching and performance management skills.

• Strategically focused to support business requirements.

• General knowledge of banking laws and regulations preferred.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Demonstrated ability to develop and foster strong internal/external relationships with various levels within the organization.

• Flexible in adapting to constantly changing priorities.

• Decisive; extremely accurate and detail-oriented

• Self-motivated, reliable, and well organized

Hybrid role located out of Southington, CT, White Plains, NY, Jericho, NY or New York, NY.

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The estimated salary range for this position is $25.00 to $29.00 USD an hour. Actual salary may vary up or down depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position is eligible for incentive compensation.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.