Associate Manager HME Customer Service Job New York New York USA,Management

Location: New York

Department Name:
Admin-HME

Work Shift:

Day

Job Category:
Administrative Services

At Banner Health, we set leaders up to succeed. We ensure leaders have the staff and resources their vision requires. Join a nationally recognized leader that values excellence and begin making a difference in people's lives.

Banner Health's HME Customer Relations team is looking for an Associate Manager who thrives in fast-paced environments and is passionate about developing others. You'll monitor workloads, staffing, and service levels while collaborating across departments to continuously improve workflows and operations. This is a unique opportunity to influence day-to-day operations, develop future leaders, and drive meaningful process improvements - all while gaining broad exposure across multiple areas of HME.

We're looking for a leader with experience managing customer service, healthcare, call center, or patient support teams, along with a strong track record of coaching employees, driving accountability, and delivering measurable results. If you're seeking growth, visibility, and the chance to lead with purpose while directly impacting patient care, this role was made for you.

Schedule:

Monday through Friday, 9AM to 6PM with occasional holiday or weekend coverage.

POSITION SUMMARY

This position supervises the day-to-day operations of the organization's client services center, which includes ensuring plan member rights and responsibilities are adhered to.

CORE FUNCTIONS

Hires, trains, conducts performance reviews, as well as plans and supervises the day-to-day workflow for the department staff. This includes ensuring the staff complies with federal and state regulations, including HIPAA and ERISA.

Supervises the client services center to ensure customers receive appropriate, timely and accurate information pertaining to the benefit programs, including care coordination, contracted providers, related services, enrollment requirements, as well as utilization review, prior authorization, and claims and contract management.

Partners with management to monitor and evaluate call statistics to ensure appropriate and adequate coverage for the staff. This includes generating departmental reports to track customer service effectiveness, efficiency, productivity, and quality of the client services staff, as well as coordinating work activities to meet operational requirements and achieve customer satisfaction.

Participates in the development and maintenance of department policies, procedures and standards in conjunction with organizational standards.

Supervises customer service calls to observe staff demeanor, accuracy and conformity to departmental guidelines and procedures. Ensures excellent services levels to all client service center stakeholders.

This position has direct accountability for the organization's client services department, which entails working with all facilities, employees, departments and key constituents to ensure efficient operations. Customers include the plan administration provider community, employee members and their dependents, physician office staff, allied health professionals and related entities, departments and programs.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Requires a level of business and clinical knowledge as normally obtained through the completion of an Associates degree in healthcare, business, or related field.
Three to five years experience in a high volume call center. One to two years experience leading and/or supervising a team.
Must have excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication and customer service skills to effectively interact with internal and external customers and client services team, as described above. Must have a working knowledge of personal software packages to…