Client Advocate

2 weeks ago


Wellesley Hills, United States Sun Life Full time

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

**The opportunity**:
The Client Advocate is responsible for the intake and resolution of client inquiries, issues, and or general service requests. The position is accountable for bringing all client issues to resolution accurately, efficiently and to the client’s satisfaction. The Client Advocate partners with CREs, brokers and internal service departments to ensure positive client experiences with Sun Life that leads to retention and growth of the assigned block of business.

**How you will contribute**:

- Facilitates expedient and accurate resolution to client inquiries/issues/concerns to the client’s satisfaction - the client includes home office/field partners, brokers and policyholders, provides front-line service for all matters important to the BA and their benefit plans; owns the issue and provides knowledgeable and timely service to clients, brokers and internal partners
- Accountable for coordinating any special BA requests
- service recovery, exceptions, and other special requests with all impacted service teams
- Manages, follows-through, and resolves all client inquiries, issues, and concerns through collaboration with internal partners
- Fulfills customized reporting requests from clients
- Submits and provides all necessary data for amendments including the generation and submission of necessary documentation that will allow for completion of complex amendments; partners with internal teams to resolve any questions or issues required to complete the amendment
- Develops and maintains excellent working relationships with the CRE, EBR and other internal departments to oversee resolution of issues to the client’s satisfaction
- Maintains complete documentation of all activities in Salesforce
- Utilize/update administrative systems/platforms
- Identify and drive continuous improvements
- Analyze trends and perform root cause analysis to partner with internal teams on continuous improvement opportunities.
- Escalate issues with root cause analysis to inform the overall strategy for improving the client experience.
- Identify and respond to changes in external environment and client needs.
- Identify areas for Sun Life to bolster performance and meaningful ways to measure and value client relationships
- Monitors and tracks Service Guarantee / Performance Guarantee performance, delivers Client outcome when appropriate
- Documents and tracks Service Escalations and Complaints in Salesforce and Complaint Management System

**What you will bring with you**:
Two years of client service experience; ideally within the Insurance or Group Employee Benefits

College Degree, preferred
- Demonstrated Group Product knowledge proficiency in Short-Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life, Leave / Absence and Supplemental Health
- Ability to work accurately and effectively in a fast paced environment
- Ability to actively listen to clients, pay attention to their needs, wants, likes, dislikes, trends, ideas and suggestions
- Knowledgeable, service-oriented professional approach
- Ability to flex and adapt in a rapidly changing work environment
- Proven record of providing strong, accurate and effective client service
- Ability to influence the horizontal process and influence the owners of each part of the process
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Experience in effectively analyzing issues and identifying root causes to prevent reoccurrence
- Strong knowledge of systems and technology
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Thorough comprehension of contract provisions and administrative policies and procedures
- In-depth knowledge of group insurance products and processes
- Displays integrity through transparency, honest dealings, predictable reactions and well-controlled emotions; demonstrates the ability to be fair and consistent in all professional dealings
- Proficient with Microsoft Tools including PowerPoint, Word and Excel
- Knowledge of Salesforce

**Life is brighter when you work at Sun Life**
- Excellent benefits and wellness programs to support the three pillars of your well-being - mental, physical and financial - including generous vacation and sick time, market-leading paid family, parental and adoption leave, a partially-paid sabbatical program, medical plans, company paid life and AD&D insurance as well as disability programs and more
- Retirement and Stock Purchase programs to help build and


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