Customer Operations Team Leader (18-month FTC)

About Moneybox At Moneybox, our mission is to give everyone the means to get more out of life. We're guided by our belief that wealth isn't about the money, it's about the means to more - more freedom, opportunities, possibilities, and peace of mind. Moneybox is an award-winning wealth management platform, helping over one and a half million people build wealth throughout their lives, whether they’re saving and investing, buying their first home, or planning for retirement.

Customer Operations Team Leaders are the backbone of our Customer Operations team, ensuring everything runs like a well-oiled machine. As a Team Leader, you'll be the go-to person for a group of Executives, providing guidance, support and motivation. You'll also be the master of workflow, juggling tasks and tackling escalations with ease. It's a challenging but rewarding role that's perfect for anyone who loves to lead, problem-solve, and make a real difference in the lives of our customers.

The Customer Operations team plays a vital role in our business. We manage ISA and Lifetime ISA transfers (both in and out of Moneybox) and facilitate payment processing for incoming transfers. We help first-time buyers reach a significant milestone: purchasing their home. Our team supports customers withdrawing from their Lifetime ISA for this purpose, ensuring a smooth and seamless experience.

Our team interacts with external parties, including financial service providers and solicitors, as well as our customers. To excel in this role, you must be skilled at providing exceptional customer and third party service while ensuring our back end processes are efficient and error free.

What you'll do

As a Team Leader, your core responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):

• Line Management and Mentorship: leading and guiding a group of Customer Operations Executives, fostering their professional development through regular one to ones, performance reviews and coaching sessions.

• Workflow Management and Escalation Handling: sharing on duty responsibilities with other Team Leaders on a rotating basis, overseeing the daily workload, sharing reporting data for your area, managing escalations and keeping the team within SLAs.

• Staying Informed and Aligned: keeping up to date on company wide changes, roadmaps and progress toward targets, and working closely with the Head of Customer Operations, Managers and fellow Team Leaders.

Team management

• Holding weekly 1-1s with team members to discuss progression and development, using performance metrics alongside conversational feedback

• Conducting quality assurance on the team's work regularly, providing feedback and flagging risks

• Running coaching sessions on best practice and customer service

• Supporting training and hiring of new team members

Duty management

• Conducting daily morning huddles

• Managing queues and delegating tasks appropriately as Duty Coordinator

• Reporting on SLA adherence and planning to stay within expected timeframes

• Maintaining motivation and professionalism, acting as a strong role model

• Acting as the initial point of escalation for complaints, bugs and difficult queries

• Continuing to interact with customers to keep knowledge high and set a strong standard for the team

Expert knowledge

• Understanding where niche issues and complaints should be escalated, and owning the issue

• Identifying issues from common customer queries and noticing when things don't look right

• Providing assistance across all areas of Customer Operations when needed (training, content, Intercom, etc.)

Improvements and wider business

• Proactively looking for ways to improve current processes and creating or improving best practice guides

• Using data, customer and team feedback to support improvement initiatives

• Working closely with a Moneybox Mission team, feeding back how their work affects Customer Operations

Our Customer Commitment

We RAISE the bar with our service.

• Relationship: we put customers first, provide swift resolutions and celebrate their wins

• Advocacy: we listen to customers and advocate for them at each step of their journey

• Integrity: we work honestly, fairly and with the customer's best interests in mind

• Simplicity: we are clear and simple, with no complicated jargon

• Expert App Knowledge: we ensure our customer facing teams are experts in the app and their fields

Who you are

• Experienced Leader: minimum 2 years of management experience with a proven ability to inspire and guide a team

• Strategic and Organised: able to balance big picture thinking with effective day to day workflow management

• Effective Communicator: articulate and persuasive, able to advocate for ideas clearly and professionally

• Receptive to Feedback: values constructive criticism as an opportunity for learning and improvement

• Customer Focused: confident and approachable, able to deliver exceptional service

• Diversity Champion: committed to an inclusive and transparent team environment

• Analytical and Data Driven: uses data to support judgement and solve problems

• Ambitious and Driven: seeking a long term career opportunity within a fast growing company

What's in it for you

• Opportunity to join a fast growing, award winning and ambitious startup

• A friendly team of highly motivated individuals

• An environment where you are listened to and can have real impact

• Thriving collaborative and inclusive company culture

• Competitive remuneration package

• Opportunity to attend industry conferences and events

• Gympass subscription

• Private medical insurance

• Personal L&D allowance

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Our Commitment to DE&I: At Moneybox, we promote, support and celebrate inclusion, diversity and equity for all, so that everyone can bring their full selves to work. We believe that diversity drives innovation, and that if our team is representative of our community of customers, we can better support their needs. To ensure our recruitment processes provide an equal opportunity for all applicants to succeed, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments that we can make. We are open-minded and always willing to go the extra mile to ensure all applicants can present their full self and potential   Working Policy: We have a hybrid policy that includes 2 days from our London office and 3 from home. If the role states it is either hybrid or remote candidates must be based within the UK.   Visa Sponsorship: At this time we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role and we cannot consider overseas applications.   Please read before you apply! Please note if offered a position, the offer is conditional and subject to the receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks which we will conduct such as criminal record and adverse credit history checks. As a regulated financial business, an adverse financial history could impact your suitability for the role. If you are aware of anything that could affect your suitability for the role, please let us know in advance.   By sending us your application you acknowledge and agree to Moneybox using your personal data as described below.   We collect applicants’ personal data to manage our recruitment related activities. Consequently, we may use your personal data to evaluate your application, to select and shortlist applicants, to set up and conduct interviews and tests, to evaluate and assess the results, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment process generally.We do not share your personal data with unauthorised third parties. However, we may, if necessary, share your personal data to carefully selected third parties acting on our behalf. This may include transfers to servers and databases outside the country where you provided us with your personal data. Such transfers may include for example transfers and/or disclosures outside the European Economic Area and in the United States of America.   If you are unsuccessful in your application, we may keep your details on file so that we can tell you about other suitable vacancies which may be of interest to you when they arise in the future.   If you would like to reach us then please email: talent@moneybox.com   If you would rather we did not keep your details on file, you can contact us at: DPO@moneyboxapp.com