Senior Client Service Manager, Retirement Plan Services

Position Type: Regular
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Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship.

The Senior Client Service Manager, Relationship Management plays the critical role of primary relationship owner and interface between our plan sponsors and Schwab. You would be responsible for oversight of all aspects of retirement plan recordkeeping and administration. In this capacity, you will consistently explore and discover client and consultant needs by engaging in face-to-face meetings, asking well-defined, open-ended questions to clearly uncover new business opportunities and identify relationship challenges.

As a part of this ongoing process, you will utilize your personal knowledge and expertise as well as identify and engage the appropriate subject matter experts within Charles Schwab to assist with presentations and discussions to ensure client understanding of available solution sets to achieve successful outcomes.

The Senior Client Service Manager, Relationship Management will work together, as a team, with their Client Relationship Practice Leader and Client Relationship Administrators to provide a coordinated approach of client service delivery in support of plan administration requirements and unique client needs. The goal of these team‑based efforts will be to drive higher levels of client retention, client satisfaction, and expansion of the overall Schwab relationship with assigned practice clients.

In meeting and exceeding these duties, you are expected to understand and adhere to Schwab policies and practices and will play a key role in the mitigation of operational and financial risk to Schwab. The Senior Client Service Manager, Relationship Management will typically provide comprehensive client relationship support for clients that have enhanced complexity and assets totaling $500M to $1B.

• Leading approximately 8-10 sizable growing client relationships.
• Understand assigned practice plans to ensure administration is completed in accordance with plan provisions.
• Collaboration with business partners to delegate and lead client issues to successful resolution is key in your position.
• Approaching every client interaction holistically by being aware of all issues and events related to the client and collaborate with peers to build a precise client experience is a major part of your role.
• Consistently explore and discover client and consultant needs by engaging in face‑to‑face meetings asking well‑defined, open‑ended questions to clearly uncover new business opportunities and relationship challenges. Identify and
• Engage the appropriate subject matter experts within Charles Schwab to assist with appropriate client discussions to accomplish client understanding of solution sets to achieve successful outcomes.
• Ensure client satisfaction, improve client promoter scores, and actively communicate plan administration activities with your internal teams.
• Identify and adapt to clients’ and consultants’ diverse backgrounds and roles (executives, human resources, and finance) and maintain investment‑related expertise to effectively sell and deliver product, service, and platform solutions.
• Support Sales efforts, as needed,
• Deliver client education and training by developing appropriate awareness of investment offerings, fiduciary responsibilities and procedures when presenting opportunities for clients to contract investment products, services, and platforms.
• Work reciprocally within the organization, share standard methodologies, and aid in the continuous improvement of the services provided by Schwab to ensure your success.
• Execute client and regulatory changes.
• Effectively and authentically communicate Schwab’s value to clients.
• Apply specialized knowledge within all aspects of qualified and non‑qualified retirement plan recordkeeping and understand the broader impact on the company.
• Build and sustain positive…