Team Manager - Vitality : Job Details

About The RoleTeam – Member Servicing Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Stockport Office. Full time, 35 hours per week. We are happy to discuss flexible working! Top 3 skills needed for this role:

• Passionate about developing people
• Good communication skills
• Ability to prioritise

What this role is all about:You will be part of our Member Servicing team. This area specialises in Social media, our Reward benefit and Life Insurance admin queries. These queries come through a multi-channel. Your team will be managed and coached by you to provide exceptional service which exceeds the customer experience. You will be an advocate for change as Vitality changes all the time to improve the services it provides. You will lead as an example to your team.  Key Actions

• Work with other managers and stakeholders to ensure the team receive coaching, development and technical support as needed
• Directly manage a team of 10-18 Service Consultants/Senior Service Consultants/Relationship Managers with varying level of experience
• Responsible for reward, training and development of own team, establishing and maintaining a performance management framework for the team
• Responsible for standard of service provided by own team and involvement in achieving the overall department targets
• Will be required to engage with both internal and external stakeholders
• Responsible for the delivery of the service strategy through management of direct reports
• Coach and support team members through regular 1:1s and reviews to identify and address development needs and construct development plans which will build a high quality team. 
• Monitor team performance and output through use of volume and quality audit data in order to set or adjust targets and measure success against them, and raise the standard of the team
• Regular liaison with Relationship Managers to ensure escalations and complaint processes are adhered to in a timely and professional manner.
• Take full responsibility for regularly updating own knowledge and monitoring teams knowledge of FCA regulations, company products, processes and procedures in order to provide the best, accurate customer information at all times.

What do you need to thrive?

• Proven track record in a service environment and experience at a supervisory level
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Excellent communication, coaching and feedback skills
• Proven ability to deliver against targets
• Advanced relationship management skills
• Excellent negotiation, influencing and leadership skills
• Customer Service focused and able to manage relationships with stakeholders
• Ability to constantly reprioritise based on business need

So, what’s in it for you?

• Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance – Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
• Be there for you when you need us.
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.About The CompanyWe're really excited to announce that we have recently been awarded "Top 10 Best Places To Work" in The Sunday Times Awards 2024!Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place.We’ve been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives – they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We’re successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people – and because we care.Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.Ready to find out if we’re the right fit for you? We can’t wait.Diversity & InclusionWe’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. To learn more please visit our Careers page.Vitality’s approach to sustainabilityIf we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.''