Customer Relations Specialist

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Customer Relations Specialist handling customer inquiries, calls, data entry, and administrative support for Acumen’s Medicaid-related operations. Remote role restricted to candidates in Texas or Arizona.

Responsibilities:

  • Standardize the quality of outgoing communications and maintain incoming and outgoing calls according to Acumen, Medicaid, state, and contract guidelines
  • Perform company-wide administrative support tasks
  • Serve as a first point of contact for customers
  • Interact daily by phone and electronically with people of varying educational backgrounds and authority
  • Provide excellent customer service to clients, coworkers, and visitors by phone and in person
  • Analyze, track, research, and resolve customer inquiries
  • Process incoming and outbound paperwork and electronic communications through accurate manual data entry
  • Register potential and existing customers in multiple databases
  • Receive, research, sort, file, and retrieve confidential and time-sensitive documents
  • Process documents to update and maintain files and records
  • Maintain a complex filing system
  • Prioritize work independently using deadlines, urgency, and manager instructions
  • Comprehend and apply internal and external applications, software, Medicaid guidelines, and contract, state, and program guidelines
  • Handle conflicts and difficult customers and de-escalate situations
  • Retrieve and return calls, escalating issues to the appropriate supervisor
  • Review and process emails, escalating when needed
  • Follow position processes and assigned duties
  • Document new processes as requested
  • Identify and share process-improvement opportunities
  • Occasionally work late or weekends as needed to meet deadlines or high-volume demands
  • Achieve call quotas set by management
  • Perform other assigned duties and change priorities as instructed
  • Support Acumen's compliant cybersecurity posture by following relevant policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines

Requirements:

  • High School Diploma or equivalent, and some college courses or degree preferred
  • At least 2 years of experience in Customer Service
  • Proficient with 10-key by touch
  • Ability to work well with numbers
  • Valid Driver’s License and able to lift and transport mail to post office daily
  • Advanced computer skills, including email, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, and document manipulation
  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Data Entry background with a high degree of accuracy
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • Ability to multi-task and meet assigned deadlines in a rapidly changing environment
  • Ability to recognize problems and escalate them appropriately
  • Minimum typing speed of 45 wpm
  • Excellent communication and relationship skills
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality
  • Ability to read and interpret written information and procedural documentation
  • Ability to interact respectfully with diverse customers and stakeholders
  • Ability to resolve crisis situations and develop resolutions between parties
  • Ability to sit for extended periods and perform repetitive data-entry motions
  • Ability to work under stressful conditions and manage multiple assignments with deadlines