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Operations Director – Call Center
Location
Alabama + 6 moreAll locations: Alabama | Florida | Louisiana | Mississippi | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas
Posted
14 days ago
Salary
$105K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Operations Director – Call Center
Esri
• Oversee daily Patient Access contact center operations to ensure consistent service delivery, operational coverage, productivity, schedule adherence, quality, and client satisfaction. • Manage and support Patient Access leadership, including Patient Access Managers, Floor Managers, Team Leads, Supervisors, or other assigned operational leaders. • Ensure leaders are effectively managing employee performance, attendance, productivity, quality, coaching, corrective action, and daily operational execution. • Monitor real-time and historical department performance to identify staffing gaps, queue concerns, service level risks, workflow issues, and performance trends. • Ensure Patient Access teams meet or exceed established KPIs, including service level, abandonment rate, average speed of answer, average handle time, schedule adherence, productivity, quality scores, attendance, and client-specific performance metrics. • Partner with Workforce Management to ensure proper staffing, schedule coverage, intraday management, overtime control, VTO usage, and forecast alignment. • Ensure operational leaders are reviewing agent activity, call volume, schedule adherence, login/logout activity, timekeeping discrepancies, and other performance indicators. • Identify operational barriers and implement action plans to improve performance, efficiency, quality, employee accountability, and patient/customer experience. • Maintain a strong understanding of all Patient Access workflows, including scheduling support, answering service support, call routing, client-specific scripting, escalation procedures, and documentation requirements.
Job Requirements
- Associate degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Operations Management, or related field required; bachelor's degree preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years of call center/contact center operations experience required.
- Minimum of 3 years of supervisory or management experience in a healthcare, medical call center, patient access, centralized scheduling, answering service, or customer service contact center environment required.
- Experience managing remote or geographically dispersed employees strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of call center KPIs, including service level, abandonment rate, average handle time, schedule adherence, occupancy, productivity, quality, attendance, and customer/patient experience metrics.
- Experience using workforce management, call center, telephony, reporting, HRIS, quality monitoring, AI-enabled workflow, or automation tools.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Outlook, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, AWS Connect or similar contact center platforms, company-approved AI/automation tools, and other business communication/reporting tools.
- Ability to understand and apply AI agents, AI workflows, and automation concepts to enhance human operator productivity, streamline post-call work, improve reporting, and support operational efficiency.
- Ability to analyze operational data and convert findings into clear action plans.
- Knowledge of HIPAA, PHI confidentiality expectations, healthcare call center operations, and patient/customer service standards.
- Ability to work flexible hours as needed to support a 24/7 or extended-hours operation, client needs, urgent escalations, staffing gaps, or business continuity needs.
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