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Terry Bowling Jr

Terry Bowling Jr

Unionville,TN

Summary

Nashville, TN Innovative and results oriented director with 14 years of professional experience. Emphasis on customer experience and employee engagement. Dedicated to all internal and external customers with the ability to maintain high level of confidentiality. Exceptional creative abilities, goal oriented, seasoned in teamwork culture, extremely resourceful. Proven success in strategically leading and coaching teams to achieve corporate objectives. Ability to implement streamlined processes to maximize time and efficiency. Highly organized with a talent for balancing multiple priorities within a fast-paced environment. Dynamic and motivated with a proven record of generating and building relationships, managing projects from concept to completion, and coaching individuals to success. Skilled in making critical decisions during challenges, and highly competent in organization plus interpersonal relations. Award-winning excellence exceeding sales quotas, managing, training, and supporting teams, and driving organization growth and profitability for small, midsize, and Fortune 500 companies. Exceptional mentor and coach. Combining business acumen with innate leadership abilities to recruit, train, build and retain top-performing teams. Passionate for my career, and it shows in my results and team's work. Organized simultaneous office functions and direct administrative personnel to meet needs of business professionals. Performance-oriented and driven with in-depth understanding of budgets, payroll and office organization needs. Skillfully coordinate resources and administrative support to keep operations smooth and boost team productivity.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Contact Center Manager

Advance Financial
01.2018 - Current
  • Raised Gallup internal employee satisfaction from 3.1 to 4.6 overall
  • Manage 2 departments, overseas call center, 9 supervisors, 130 employees and 110 stores
  • Maintained lowest turnover in company
  • Maintained Best in class Employee Engagement
  • Providing guidance to direct reports, typically comprising first-line managers
  • Ensuring clarity around priorities and goals for entire functional area
  • Approving requests for investment to certain level of authority
  • Managing overall financial budgeting for department
  • Approving hiring and firing requests within department
  • Guiding the talent identification and development processes for a group
  • Interacting with executive leaders weekly
  • Working with senior management and C level executives for strategy development and implementation changes
  • Managed quality assurance department for all 3 contact centers
  • Training and development over new product and processes
  • Communicating financial and goal results and key performance indicators
  • Facilitating goal-level creation for the broader function and working with managers to ensure the goals cascade to all workers
  • Started role in 2018 as Online Operations Manager, promoted to current role in 2019
  • Applied effective time management techniques to meet tight deadlines
  • Scheduled call center staff to meet operational needs whilst remaining under budget
  • Established performance goals for employees and provided feedback on methods for reaching those milestones
  • Analyzed customer feedback to identify improvement opportunities and develop action plans
  • Determined quality assurance benchmarks and set standards for improvement
  • Maintained positive customer relations by addressing problems head-on and implementing successful corrective actions
  • Recruited, trained and onboarded new agents, maintaining exceptional service standards
  • Evaluated data to identify trends and determine customer service needs
  • Set aggressive targets for employees to drive company success and strengthen motivation
  • Planned, created, tested and deployed system life cycle methodology to produce high quality systems to meet and exceed customer expectations
  • Successfully managed budgets and allocated resources to maximize productivity and profitability
  • Collected and analyzed call center statistics, sales rates, costs, and customer service metrics

Operations Manager

Asurion
01.2015 - 01.2018
  • Maintained a 96% employee satisfaction rating for 2017 by demonstrating servant leadership from Sr. Leadership level
  • Responsible for overall operations for 10 front line supervisors as well as 150 Customer Service Representatives
  • Led day-to-day operations, managing processes, client retention, programs, and initiatives for a team of 150+ contractors and employees
  • Planned, conducted, and directed work on complex projects/programs necessitating the origination and application of new and unique approaches
  • Accountable for providing support, career development and improving customer satisfaction while increasing productivity and developing efficient ways to meet client expectations
  • Maintained and improved culture, results and attrition while increasing customer loyalty and profitability
  • Developed and directed the implementation of strategies to substantially improve efficiencies and service provided while reducing costs
  • Served as primary contact for compliance and audit related activities
  • Ensure compliance issues are tracked and resolved
  • Worked closely with the appropriate parties to implement high level quality and performance management initiative
  • Introduced new methods, practices, and systems to reduce turnaround time
  • Reduced financial inconsistencies while assessing and verifying billing invoices and expense reports
  • Devised and executed training plans for new and existing staff to support competency and compliance
  • Launched staff engagement, gender diversity and cultural programs in addition to robust reporting tool that increased operational quality
  • Led weekly meetings with regional staff to review progress, address challenges and drive timely task completion
  • Tracked trends and suggested enhancements to both challenge and refine company's product offerings

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN
2024

Associate of Science - Business Administration

Motlow State Community College
Tullahoma, TN
2006

Skills

  • SKILLS
  • Customer Loyalty
  • Corrective Actions
  • Mission and Vision
  • Strategic Risk Management
  • Staff Development
  • Effective Customer Service
  • Operational Leadership
  • Leadership and Change Management
  • Report Preparation and Analysis
  • Employee Engagement
  • Research and Analysis
  • Organizational Management

Accomplishments

  • Supervised team of 130 team members. Across 3 call centers.

Additional Information

Professional Reference Available upon request.

Timeline

Sr. Contact Center Manager

Advance Financial
01.2018 - Current

Operations Manager

Asurion
01.2015 - 01.2018

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

Middle Tennessee State University

Associate of Science - Business Administration

Motlow State Community College
Terry Bowling Jr