Service Team Manager

Job Description:

Service Team Manager

Bupa Place, Salford Quays – hybrid working with 2 days in the office

6 month fixed term

Full time – 37.5 hours per week

£31,750

We try to consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns. Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship for this position.

We make health happen:

At Bupa, we help people live longer, healthier, happier lives and make a better world. As a Service Team Manager, you'll play a key role in leading customer support operations, ensuring our teams deliver excellent service while maintaining the highest standards of quality, efficiency and regulatory compliance.

Working within our Service Admin Support function, you'll lead frontline teams, drive continuous improvement and work closely with stakeholders and outsourced partners to deliver exceptional experiences for our customers. This is an opportunity to shape how we work, develop people and influence positive change across a critical area of the business.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

• Lead, motivate and develop frontline customer service teams, creating a culture focused on service excellence and continuous improvement.
• Deliver strong operational performance through effective workload planning, resource management and team leadership.
• Identify and implement process improvements that increase efficiency, support digitisation and reduce operational costs.
• Work collaboratively with key stakeholders across Customer Support, Payments and wider business functions to improve service delivery.
• Build effective partnerships with third-party suppliers and outsourced teams to improve performance and customer outcomes.
• Ensure all activities are delivered in line with regulatory requirements, internal policies and customer expectations.
• Support the ongoing development and wellbeing of your team through coaching, feedback and performance management.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

Essential

• Previous experience managing frontline customer service or operational teams.
• Proven leadership skills, with experience motivating, developing and coaching colleagues.
• Strong track record of delivering results through continuous improvement initiatives.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Strong planning, organisation and time-management capability.
• Ability to balance operational performance, customer outcomes and regulatory requirements.

Desirable

• Experience in financial services, insurance, healthcare or another regulated environment.
• Experience supporting business transformation, digitisation or operational change programmes.

What you'll bring

• A passion for delivering great customer service.
• A positive, collaborative leadership style.
• Confidence managing change and driving improvement.
• Resilience and the ability to perform in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong coaching skills and a commitment to helping others succeed.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: [email protected]   

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Delivery and Operations

Locations:

Bupa Place