Supervisor, Homeowner Advocacy

Exceed the expectations of our residential mortgage borrowers & business partners through superior service, simple processes, and effective communications.

We deliver on this mission by empowering our employees by encouraging and recognizing superior performance and innovative solutions, by promoting teamwork and divisional cooperation.
** Primary Function
** The Supervisor Homeowner Advocacy is responsible for supervising the Homeowner Advocacy Team in their work of investigating and responding to consumer complaints. This position is designed to ensure productivity, quality, and training to is adequate for the team to resolve consumer complaints quickly before they escalate, to prevent more risk and exposure to the company, and improve the overall customer experience.

The Supervisor will work with various department leaders to investigate and escalate issues to ensure resolution is achieved for the consumer. They will be required to supervise and train the team, provide progress updates to Management, and ensure timely resolution for the consumer.
** Direct Reports
*** Correspondence & Dispute Specialist
** Principal Duties
*** Supervise and assist team in research of consumer’s loan to determine the problem and next steps toward resolution.
* Lead escalation management activities, such as checkpoint calls for customer issues and reporting
* Proactively monitor high priority escalation cases and provide assistance to prevent escalations
* Escalate issues with other department leaders on tasks that their department needs to complete before a resolution can be reached for the consumer.
* Monitor updates and maintenance of the consumer complaint database for complaints.
* Deliver tracking updates and reporting to Compliance Management for productivity and complaint trending.
* Create employee Improvement Action Plan for Escalation Specialist success.
* Ensure resource prioritization and resolution of customer escalated issues.
* Perform other duties as assigned by management.
** Education and Experience Requirements
*** High School Diploma required;
Bachelor’s degree preferred.
* 6+ years related experience.
* Prior supervisory experience.
** Knowledge, Skill, and Ability Requirements
*** Required knowledge, skills, and ability.
* Well-rounded knowledge of Mortgage, Consumer finance and loss mitigation a plus
* Superior Customer Service and verbal/phone communication skills is a must
* General mortgage servicing compliance knowledge
* Intermediate knowledge of MS Word, MS Excel, Outlook, and MS Access needed
* Familiarity with SQL, Tableau, and ILS systems
* Must possess a short learning curve related to assimilation of new skills and tasks
* Superior organizational skills needed
* Ability to multi-task as well as quickly adapt to changing work assignments
*** While this description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the position’s requirements, it in no way implies/states that these are the only job responsibilities. Management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties and request other duties, as necessary.
***** Additional Information:
** While this description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the position’s requirements, it in no way implies/states that these are the only job responsibilities. Management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties and request other duties, as necessary.

All employees are required to have smart phones that meet Company security standards with the ability to install apps such as Okta Verify and Microsoft Authenticator. Employment will be contingent on this requirement.
** Company Benefits**:

Newrez is a great place to work but we are only as strong as our greatest asset, our employees, so we believe in rewarding them!
* Medical, dental, and vision insurance
* Health Savings Account with employer contribution
* 401(k) Retirement plan with employer match
* Paid Maternity Leave/Parental Bonding Leave
* Pet insurance
* Adoption Assistance
* Tuition reimbursement
* Employee Loan Program
* The Newrez Employee Emergency and Disaster Fund is a new program to support our team members
** Newrez NOW:
*** Our Corporate Social Responsibility program, Newrez NOW, empowers…