Team Leader, Advisor & Client Support Specialist

About Us

As a leading Canadian wealth management organization, Richardson Wealth offers the personal touch of a boutique firm while delivering big results. With offices across the country, we are home to some of Canada’s best investment advisors. We’ve embarked on an exciting growth phase – a multi-year transformational journey to enhance our entrepreneurial, high‑performing, advisor‑centric culture.

The Team Leader, Advisor & Client Support is responsible for enabling, coaching, and supporting Advisor & Client Support team members in their day‑to‑day work. This role provides practical guidance on service inquiries, client‑facing systems, digital service channels, advisor support processes, and complex or time‑sensitive situations, helping staff build confidence, apply sound judgment, and deliver consistent, high‑quality support.

This is an existing vacancy.

By monitoring workflow, reinforcing service standards, removing roadblocks, and helping team members resolve issues effectively, the Team Leader strengthens team capability, improves service consistency, and contributes to an elevated Advisor and client experience.

• In this role, you will support best‑in‑class service delivery while providing day‑to‑day guidance, coaching, escalation support, and operational oversight for Advisor & Client Support Representatives and Senior Advisor & Client Support Representatives.
• Act as a primary escalation point for more complex advisor inquiries, service‑impacting issues, workflow questions, access challenges, navigation concerns, troubleshooting matters, and issue resolution requiring judgment, ownership, and cross‑functional follow‑through.
• Support inbound phone and email service delivery by helping team members manage competing priorities, maintain professionalism under pressure, and provide timely, knowledgeable, and consistent support across standard and more complex service matters.
• Act as a service liaison between Advisors, advisor teams, internal business partners, technology teams, operations, compliance, branch teams, and Head Office to ensure issues are effectively triaged, escalated, tracked, communicated, and resolved.
• Coach, guide, and support team members by sharing knowledge, reinforcing service expectations, helping resolve day‑to‑day questions, and building confidence in supported systems, processes, and service practices.
• Support the growth and development of team members by providing regular coaching, constructive feedback, and practical guidance that helps staff build confidence, strengthen capabilities, and continue progressing in their roles.
• Help identify individual learning needs, knowledge gaps, and development opportunities, and partner with the Manager to support targeted learning plans, cross‑training, onboarding, and skill‑building activities.
• Create a supportive team environment by encouraging questions, sharing best practices, recognizing progress, and helping team members apply learning to real service situations.
• Support staff readiness for new processes, system changes, and service expectations by translating updates into clear guidance, reinforcing key messages, and helping team members adapt with confidence.
• Support Advisors and advisor teams in adopting and optimizing client‑facing tools that enhance practice efficiency, client engagement, service consistency, and overall delivery of the client experience.
• Take on leadership responsibilities related to system enhancements, communication initiatives, process changes, testing support, special projects, service readiness activities, and team implementation efforts that improve the Advisor and client experience.
• Proactively engage with Advisors, team members, and internal…