Job Title: Client Advocate II
Job Location: Columbia, SC (Partial Onsite - In office Tuesday, Wednesday and as needed.)
Duration: 12 Months

Note: C2 eligibility is required.

Job Summary: 

• Responsible for establishing, building, and maintaining sustainable customer relationships. Ensures appropriate client communication, client focus, and client control of priorities by coordinating with the client organization at strategic, tactical, and operational levels. Works with customer to identify opportunities for innovation, cost reduction, improved efficiencies and business challenges. Acts as a liaison between I/S and customer for assigned business units. Ensures that the design and integration of proposed system, software, and hardware solutions leads to the development and growth of the business through effective use of technology.
• 40% Steering Support --- Helps the customer define their business needs as specific changes and works with the customer on priority setting. Assists in the definition of I/S work requests and completes the packaging and delivery of I/S work/audit requests estimates and supporting documentation. Negotiates final estimates, authorization, and start/completion dates for each request with customer. Provides tracking of work requests to allow better control of costs for the customer. Monitors work requests to ensure delivery of products and services based on customer’s priorities, estimates, and dates. Updates I/S Product Catalog with product features.
• 30% Systems/Services Monitoring --- Monitors service levels, reports actual versus agreed to service levels, and reviews service levels with the customer to determine opportunities for improvement. Establishes and reports metrics that measure I/S performance and satisfaction to customer. Reports Service Level Agreement (SLA) performance. Analyzes requested and existing SLAs for reasonableness and takes appropriate action. Reports overall customer status to the I/S Management.
• 15% Account Management --- Acts as an account manager responsible for the collection, analysis, review, documentation, and communication of client needs and requirements. Ensures I/S solutions are tailored to the customer’s strategies by continually obtaining a complete understanding of the client’s business needs from initial requirements to final implementation. Communicates quickly and accurately. Manages political and interpersonal issues. Fosters relationships between the customer and the I/S organization as well as analyzes problems, settles disputes, and negotiates within current contractual boundaries. Acts as specialists in customer’s business and generalists in I/S products and services.
• 10% Internal Marketing --- Takes proactive marketing approach when communicating with customer in response to external requests for change or internal I/S product activity. Ensures customer is aware of potential offerings that could add value. Designs products and services with common components that can be leveraged across many customers. Establishes pricing, obtains approval by LOB management, and packages/delivers to customer. Focuses the communication with the customer on features offered in the I/S Product Catalog and works with I/S team to propose and build tailored, customer-focused solutions.
• 5% Product Improvement --- Researches/discovers opportunities to employ the proper subsets of I/S and its products and services. Identifies the customer’s strategic business strategies and finds the right products and services to fill the customer’s need and uses internal Marketing to sell the solution.

Day to Day: No day is the same for every Client Advocate who supports Medicare. Your day may begin with a list of priorities that change and get reordered throughout the day and week. Most of your core duties will be removing roadblocks and obstacles in order to keep work moving efficiently and financially healthy. During the day, the need to help triage and assist with incidents and outages could arise.

 
Job Requirements:
Requried Experience: 5 years I/T related experience to include experience in client relationship, I/S marketing, and process/product improvement.

Education: Bachelor's Degree or 4 years of job related work experience or 2 years of job related experience plus an associate’s degree in any major. Required Work Experience: 5 years I/T related experience to include experience in client relationship, I/S marketing, and process/product improvement.

Required Software and Tools: Microsoft Office.

Required Technologies: Basic understanding of Information Technology processes and terminology, high level of organizational skills, non-host (server) technology, Mainframe, and applications of all types.

Skills:

• Strong communications (verbal and written) skills with assertive yet customer-focused style. Understanding of information systems, business processes, and the key drivers and measures of success for the business unit and the organization. Knowledge of the company’s business practices and direction.
• Understanding/knowledge of technological trends used to bring solutions to business units. Previous business analysis experience.
• Experience to include working closely with I/T in the development/implementation of systems.
• Demonstrated competency in strategic thinking with strong abilities in client management and relationship building/management along with a service attitude.
• Demonstrated competency in management of resources to meet goals and multiple projects.
• Participation on multidiscipline, high-performance work teams. Ability to negotiate terms and scope of work documents. Ability to prepare and present formal presentations.
• Effective problem solving and conflict resolution skills.?

Nice To Have: Prior experience in IT as a technician, prior experience with Project Management methodologies, Incident response, and infrastructure implementation experience.
  

About Us: Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE® is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams. We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 140 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation. SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people and clients can reach their highest potential. Learn more at: http://www.spectraforce.com
 
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
 
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LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer. 


At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $35.00/hr.