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Richard Morhardt

Norfolk,NE

Summary

Diligent customer service professional successful at satisfying different types of customers with creative and knowledgeable solutions. Assists teams of customer service-focused professionals to improve customer ratings, reduce complaints and help prepare participants for retirement

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Customer Experience Specialist II

Principal Financial Group
04.2021 - Current


Assisting Frontline reps, with questions on procedures, and accessing information to answer questions from participants about their Employer sponsored retirement plans.


Acted as a subject matter expert on all questions regarding Employer sponsored retirement plans including aspects such as investment offerings, managed accounts and self directed brokerage accounts


Working with administration, to assist with more complicated or sensitive issues coming from the Plan sponsor (Employer) regarding issues the participants have had with contacting the call center and working with those people to resolve those issues.


assisting with Escalated calls from participants, in correcting mistakes made to their accounts, or with more complicated matters based on the individual plan provisions


Assisted as an informal leader among a team of other customer experience specialists, with coaching, and helping organize team contests to assist with their stats, and reporting on the monthly team stats.

Retirement Specialist

Principal Financial
05.2013 - 04.2021

Taking inbound calls from participants, to assist with answering questions about various aspects of their employer sponsored retirement plan. including website navigation, encouraging deferral increases, assisting with investment options., and withdrawal, and loan provisions.


Maintained, stats adhering to the schedule, keeping talk time, after call work, and hold time under the listed requirements.


Coordinated with other departments, for asset retention.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Religion

Hastings College
Hastings, NE

Skills

  • familiarity with Salesforce

  • Familiarity Microsoft office suite especially Microsoft Word, and Excel

  • Understanding Customer Needs

  • Knowledge of investment asset classes, especially mutual funds

Certification

Series 6 Licensed 2013


Series 65 Licensed 2015

Timeline

Senior Customer Experience Specialist II

Principal Financial Group
04.2021 - Current

Retirement Specialist

Principal Financial
05.2013 - 04.2021

Bachelor of Arts - Religion

Hastings College
Richard Morhardt