Sales Support Specialist

Support relationships with clients by establishing and maintaining strong internal relationships with account managers, sales personnel, and other key business partners, to understand customer requirements as they relate to products and service offerings.

Provide administrative support for client development plans and assigned projects that support strategic objectives, communication, growth, and retention.

Communicate and coordinate client requirements and needs with business partners to ensure accurate information is available to support client's plan design and ensure client expectations are met.

Support the implementation and intake requests of new clients to ensure specified implementation time frames are met or exceeded.

Verify client administrative requirements are met, documented, and business partners involved understand and agree to the requirements within approved processes/procedures.

Maintain working knowledge of existing and new products/services and other general information to ensure accurate information is provided to the sales/account management team and clients or brokers.

Effectively utilize sales automation system to maintain current client and prospect records and data.

Identify problematic issues and offer alternative approved solutions. Escalate to the appropriate business partner to drive custom/alternative solutions as needed.

Coordinate with other departments and the account team to resolve client issues and maintain client satisfaction.

Prepare collateral and conduct open enrollment presentations for sales team, clients, and client members to support benefit fairs as needed.

Ensure complete and accurate information is set up in the systems to maintain current client, broker, and prospect records, interfacing with multiple internal & external business partners to coordinate as needed.

Job Specifications

Typically has the following skills or abilities:

Two years of customer service or client service experience, demonstrating the ability to build effective relationships and resolve a variety of issues

Ability to quickly learn the company's products and service offerings and internal systems

Ability to manage multiple concurrent account implementations and business issues

Understanding of business objectives and the business environment

Work within agile environment demonstrating a proven ability to adapt to change quickly

Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills

Excellent organizational skills for setting work priorities and managing a high volume of information and requests from multiple sources

Proficient with MS Office, word processing and spreadsheet applications including building files, writing formulas, combining columns, copying, and merging data/files

Compensation range for the role is listed below. Applicable salary ranges may differ across markets. Actual pay will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law. As a part of the compensation package, this role may include eligible bonuses and commissions. For more information regarding VSP Vision benefits, please click here.

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