Manager Customer Support Benefits
Job Summary
Maven Clinic is seeking a Manager for Customer Support and Benefits to lead a team of 10+ Member Services Representatives. This role requires deep expertise in fertility benefits, insurance coverage, and billing to handle complex escalations and ensure high-quality member care. The manager will drive team performance, foster a supportive culture, and implement scalable operational processes.
Responsibilities
- Manage and mentor a team of 10+ Member Services Representatives.
- Resolve complex fertility-related financial, insurance, and billing escalations.
- Drive team performance metrics including productivity, NPS, and CSAT.
- Define, document, and improve SOPs and team workflows.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, operations, and clinical teams.
Required Skills
- 5-7 years in Customer Service Operations with leadership experience.
- Deep expertise in fertility benefits, billing, and insurance coordination.
- Experience with managed healthcare or employer benefits.
- Strong data analysis skills for tracking team KPIs.
- Proficiency in Zendesk and managing high-volume support channels.
Job Details
Responsibilities:
- Be the ultimate people manager. Conduct regular one-on-ones, performance reviews, and development planning to promote employee growth and high-impact performance across a team of Member Services Associates and Senior Associates.
- Act as the primary escalation point for member issues and complex fertility-related financial and billing issues, driving problems to resolution while managing communication with key stakeholders.
- Learn the ins and outs of Maven’s business and the day-to-day Member Benefit Services team responsibilities, diving in to directly master our various communication channels and reimbursement processes.
- Lead by example to ensure a culture focused on empathetic care, ensuring that the needs of our members are met in an exceptional manner.
- Directly answer member inquiries on inbound/outbound calls and Zendesk messages in times of high volume or during staffing gaps.
- Use your continuous improvement mindset to define and iterate on processes, making positive enhancements to drive efficiency, value, and accountability toward KPIs.
- Ensure team performance metrics are met; including but not limited to: productivity, response time, NPS, and CSAT.
- Report on MBS team metrics, KPIs, OKRs, to the director of MBS as well as cross functionally.
- Facilitate the team’s alignment with broader organizational objectives and effectively lead through change.
- Review, maintain, and create MBS team SOPs, workflows, and communications to the team to ensure understanding and alignment on MBS team processes.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with our Care Delivery/Advocacy, Support, Operations, Product, Data, Provider Operations, Payment, Engineering, and Client Success teams.
- Coordinate new hire training and take an active role in the success of new employees during onboarding and training.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- 5–7 years of experience in Customer Service Operations, including team leadership roles.
- 3+ years of experience managing teams of 10+ in a service/support environment.
- 2+ years of direct experience resolving complex fertility financial and benefits billing issues, including coordination with payers and employer-sponsored benefit plans.
- 1–3 years of experience in managed healthcare, insurance, or employer benefits.
- Strong track record of mentoring and coaching team members.
- Flexibility and experience managing in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- Experience managing inbound and outbound call support, email or app-based written support.
- Track record of driving improvement with impactful and measurable results.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze performance metrics to identify trends, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
- A strong sense of empathy applied to direct reports, members, and cross functional business partners.
- Savvy business judgment and the ability to support data-driven, results-oriented decision-making.
- Experience in motivating a team to achieve KPIs, drive efficiency, and managing change.
- The ability to create order from chaos and a willingness to roll up your sleeves.
Working Conditions:
- The Member Services team supports members seven days a week; therefore, occasional weekend coverage is expected.
- This position is Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM EST.