Manager, Client Experience (Manager, Account Services)

Position Summary

The Manager, Client Experience is responsible for ensuring a quality experience for clients who offer benefits through the Alberta School Employee Benefit Plan (ASEBP). Using their strong leadership skills, commitment to excellent client relationships, and thorough understanding of group benefits, the manager will ensure employer groups are supported in optimizing employee health through their benefit offerings and organizational wellness initiatives. This includes ensuring employer groups are well served through ongoing, effective communication and collaboration, as well as helping employer groups develop an organizational wellbeing strategy.

Your Key Responsibilities

Ensure the operations of the department align with ASEBP's strategic direction, objectives and culture set forth by the ASEBP trustees and the executive team.

• Evaluate and report on progress of the department in its strategic direction.
• In collaboration with the director, identify, monitor and report on key performance indicators.
• Oversee change management within the department.
• Using ASEBP project methodology, sponsor and/or allocate subject matter expertise to organizational initiatives and projects as needed.

Manage all aspects of day-to-day operations, ensuring excellent service for clients and plan administration. This includes team management, process improvement, risk mitigation and resource allocation.

• Ensure client groups are kept up to date, have access to appropriate tools and information with respect to group benefits, and have opportunity for feedback and collaboration.
• Ensure client groups are aware and understand how ASEBP can support their workplace wellness strategies, and that ASEBP is delivering tailored wellness support.
• Leverage aggregate benefit data to inform work with school jurisdictions.
• Ensure a superior client experience is delivered by setting service standards, key performance indicators, and defining and monitoring relevant metrics.
• Ensure member data and related transactions, such as enrolment information, status changes, etc. are properly maintained, actioned and updated.
• Provide guidance and support to the team, ensuring they have the tools, training and resources to execute their work efficiently and effectively.
• Manage team workload volumes and delegate accordingly.
• Oversee and continuously improve department workflows and processes.
• Manage budget and resource allocation within department.
• Identify, address and mitigate issues and risks as required.
• Handle escalated client concerns when necessary.

Work closely with the director and technical teams to maintain or enhance existing technology and introduce new member and client-facing technologies.

• Sponsor and allocate department resources to projects that impact client experience and plan administration.
• Develop working knowledge of ASEBP's client and plan administration systems and the interaction between systems.
• Ensure members enrolment and subsequent changes to member data are processed efficiently and effectively.
• Stay current in new benefit technologies and assess their application to ASEBP.

Leadership and team development

• Ensure the team structure is optimized for service excellence.
• In conjunction with Human Resources (HR), recruit, interview, orient and train new employees.
• Ensure team members have the knowledge and skills to excel in their roles, and grow within their career pathways.
• Ensure the team is knowledgeable on all lines of benefits, technologies and services, and is updated when there are changes in plan design and other services.
• Provide regular coaching and mentoring to employees, ensuring they receive timely feedback to maximize their performance.
• Ensure regular quality assurance reviews are conducted to inform performance management.
• Ensure team is updated on organizational policies, team processes and safety protocols.
• In conjunction with HR, actively identify and create opportunities for employee learning and development.

Liaise with other departments to foster strong working relationships, seamless cross-departmental processes and meet organizational goals

• Work collaboratively across all divisions to ensure organizational effectiveness.
• Alert relevant areas of trends and information that is discovered through client interaction.
• Consult and collaborate with other teams/departments on development, improvement, prioritization, implementation and evaluation of cross-divisional business processes.

Build and maintain strong relationships with ASEBP clients

• Address escalated concerns from clients.
• Liaise with, provide or present information to other stakeholders and partners as needed.

Your Education and Experience

• Completion of a university degree in business, insurance or a related field
• Five to ten years of experience in a leadership position
• Experience working with the Alberta education sector and in group benefits considered an asset.
• A Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS) designation is an asset. 

A combination of education and experience may be considered.

Your Abilities

• Transformational leadership skills, including strong emotional intelligence.
• Previous work in a unionized environment or with unionized client groups.
• Strong interpersonal and customer services skill with an ability to communicate with various stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal skills with an ability to effectively communicate complex benefit information to a variety of audiences.
• Exceptional prioritization and time management skills.
• Ability to effectively give and receive feedback.
• Ability to communicate in difficult situations.

Unique Working Conditions

You will be working with groups across the province, so some travel may be required in this role. This position is eligible to participate in the hybrid workforce program.

How To Apply

If you have the required qualifications and would like to become a member of our team, please submit your resume by 4PM on Friday, April 25, 2025.

No phone calls please. We thank all interested individuals, but only those candidates being considered for an interview will be contacted. ASEBP is an equal opportunity employer.

All offers of employment for this position are conditional upon satisfactory background and reference checks, which may include a criminal record check, and/or education and employment verification.