Call Center Team Lead

Overview

The Team Lead oversees day-to-day operations of a customer service team supporting customers for an internet service provider. This role provides frontline leadership, real-time queue oversight, and first-level escalation support for critical issues while mentoring team members to improve technical capability, efficiency, and customer experience. The Team Lead is accountable for ensuring service level objectives are met and for maintaining a stable, high-performing support operation.

Responsibilities

Essential Job Functions:

• Lead the customer service team by providing day-to-day leadership, mentorship and oversight
• Ensure all cases and escalations are followed up with in a timely and efficient manner
• Ensure adequate phone coverage to meet KPI’s. Monitor queues, adjust staffing, monitor cross-trained support, and take calls as needed
• Document and maintain processes by creating SOP’s for training purposes
• Set and monitor targets for support staff, focusing on continuous improvement to ensure KPI’s and customer satisfaction goals are achieved
• Act as lead contact with new external customer. Create dashboards, provide reporting, and develop positive relationships with external counterparts
• Partner with external customers on new product releases, ensuring the team is trained and prepared
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

Job Requirements

• Previous call center experience preferred
• Must have excellent leadership skills
• Ability to motivate and devise effective techniques to improve team performance
• Strong coaching and mentoring capabilities
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously without errors or mistakes
• Ability to work independently with limited guidance
• Excellent oral and written skills; ability to respond positively to customer emotions, stress and negative circumstances; ability to overcome objections using skillful persuasion
• Intermediate skills with Microsoft Office Suite including Excel and PowerPoint
  
  

Benefits & Perks – What’s In It For You

Panasonic is committed to supporting your total wellbeing through a wide variety of benefits and wellness programs to support your physical, emotional, financial, and social health. Here’s what you can expect:

• Health Benefits – Medical, dental, and vision.
• Voluntary Benefits – Life, accident, critical illness, disability, and pet insurance.
• Panasonic Retirement Savings & Investment Plan (PRSIP) – 401(k) plan with company matching contributions.
• Paid Time-Off Benefits – PTO, holidays, and volunteering (company sponsored events)
• Health Management and Wellbeing Programs – EAP, virtual health management (Teledoc), Lifestyle program, Diabetes Management (Livongo), Mindful by Blue KC, and A Healthier You program. Eligibility for each benefit may vary based on employment status, location, and length of service.
  
  

We Take Opportunity Seriously

At Panasonic, we are committed to a workplace that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. Fairness and Honesty have been part of our core values for more than 100 years and we are proud of our diverse culture as an equal opportunity employer.

The wage range of $22.00 - $24.00 is just one component of Panasonic’s total package. Actual compensation varies depending on the individual’s knowledge, skills, experience, and location. The minimum hourly wage for this role will be the greater of the posted range, or minimum wage for the location where the employee will be working, subject to local minimum wage requirements.

We understand that your career search may look different than others and embrace the professional, personal, educational, and volunteer opportunities through which people gain experience. If you are actively looking or starting to explore new opportunities, send us your application!

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristic protected by law. All qualified individuals are required to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

Due to the high volume of responses, we will only be able to respond to candidates of interest. All candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S.

Thank you for your interest in Panasonic.

Salary Range

22.00-24.00 REQ-154438