Manager, Specialist Care Team

**Closing date**: Monday October 10th, 5pm**

**Your new role with Bendigo Bank is just a few clicks away.**

**About the role**

As our **Manager, Specialist Care Team** you will report to the **Head of Consumer Resolution **and will bring your seasoned leadership skills along with industry experience to our fabulous team and help shape the future of customer resolution within Bendigo Bank.

As our new Manager, **Specialist Care Team**, you will provide leadership to the specialist team to guide and support vulnerable customers. As part of your new role, you will be working closely with the Customer Advocate and the Head of Customer Resolutions to embed the new strategic vulnerable customer framework. Furthermore, you will drive the operational delivery of customer requests to ensure a high level of quality and consistency across the team, through clear measures and performance indicators of effectiveness and to ensure regulatory requirements are being met. You will play a key role in redesigning system capture, procedures and quality assurance to optimise how we support vulnerable customers through the specialist team.

As this role is a key point of insight into our customer experience for our vulnerable customers you will support the Head of Customer Resolutions and the Customer Advocate by contributing key insights, emerging trends and themes on vulnerable customers that can be included into management and board reporting. This will be achieved through fostering a culture of continuous improvement to drive positive customer experiences.

**About you**

As our new **Manager, **Specialist Care Team**, **you will bring the following skills**:

- Previous experience in executing key strategic initiatives
- Strong senior leadership capability with proven experience in running a customer facing team
- Strong customer facing experience within financial industry ideally gained within a credit / banking organisation
- Demonstrated ability to manage own resilience and work within tight frames
- Always willing to learn, think outside the square and open to new ideas
- Experience in change management and transformation of teams
- Advanced understanding of Australian financial services regulations, including extensive knowledge of BCoP, ABA guidelines, RG271, consumer protection laws relating to financial products and services, AFCA approaches and other relevant industry codes of practice
- The ability to identify and assist customers who need additional assistance
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to explain complex financial and legal concepts into plain English

**We offer flexible work options that put our people first and a hybrid model of minimum x2 days in a local Head Office p/week**

This role is a full time, **permanent,** based at our Adelaide, Docklands, Bendigo, Brisbane or Ipswich head office locations

**About Bendigo Bank**

With over 7,000 employees, we are Australian’s fifth largest retail bank with a vision our purpose - ‘to feed into the prosperity of our customers and communities, not off it’. We are one of Australia’s most trusted brands and this isn’t something we take lightly, which means Bendigo Bank is the Bank you can be proud to work at

**Our perks and benefits**:
Belong to a wonderful team of people. Know how we know they’re great to work with? They told us Great benefits, work life balance and flexibility
- Bendigo Bank supports ongoing development, with the potential for a portion of education fees being reimbursed by the bank. We want you to be the best version of you, and to help you achieve that
- We know the last few years have been rough, so we have partnered with **Sonder** as our EAP provider that is so much more than just one-on-one counselling. At the touch of a button, you will have access to self-help 24/7 or you can live chat with a team of safety, medical, and mental health professionals to assist with anything life throws at you.

So, what are you waiting for? Come and join the better big bank

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