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About the Role

Join our team and grow with us! We need collections agents to respectfully recover past due consumer accounts. In this role, you will complete our professional recovery agent training, then work to resolve open accounts with customers. You will be responsible for using negotiation methodologies, maintaining trustful customer relationships, and ensuring timely payments toward recovery goals. If you believe you have a persuasive personality and enjoy helping people toward their financial goals, this is the career for you. We provide a professional environment, great pay structure, and plenty of new accounts! You provide the work ethic and professional attitude. This is an experienced-level position that offers on the job paid training. Compensation is commensurate with experience. Prior contact center experience, experience in customer service, tech support, sales, or back-office support is required. To be considered for this position, you must complete a full application on our company careers page, including screening questions and a brief pre-employment test.

Responsibilities

Reaching out to open accounts using the latest contact center technology and ethical recovery strategy.
Improving relations with open accounts and promoting brand awareness.
Utilizing various contact technology and recovery strategies to locate right parties.
Understanding the customers situation and identifying the best means of a payment plan.
Negotiating payment terms with empathy, tact, and professionalism.
Making outbound and receiving inbound calls.
Following all required scripts, policies, and procedures.
Responding effectively to common challenges to collection calls while discussing means of resolving open accounts.
Meeting monthly goals and performing other assigned duties.
Attending meetings and training and reviewing all new training material to stay up-to-date on changes to program knowledge, systems, and processes.
Adhering to all attendance and work schedule requirements.

Requirements

Must be 18 years of age or older.
High school diploma or equivalent.
Excellent organizational, written, and oral communication skills.
The ability to type swiftly and accurately (20+ words a minute).
Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook).
Basic understanding of Windows operating system.
Highly reliable with the ability to maintain regular attendance and punctuality.
The ability to evaluate, troubleshoot, and follow-up on customer issues.
An aptitude for conflict resolution, problem solving and negotiation.
Must be customer service oriented (empathetic, responsive, patient, and conscientious).
Ability to multi-task, stay focused and self-manage.
Strong team orientation and customer focus.
The ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment where change and ambiguity are prevalent.
Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with your team and customers.
Must be authorized to work in the country where the job is based.
Subject to the program and location of the position.
Willing to submit up to a LEVEL II background and/or security investigation with a fingerprint.
Willing to submit to drug screening.

Skills

Negotiation methodologies
Customer relationship management
Persuasive personality
Contact center technology
Ethical recovery strategy
Conflict resolution
Problem solving
Microsoft Office Suite
Windows operating system
Typing (20+ WPM)

Location

Onsite

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Experienced-level
Prior contact center experience
Experience in customer service
Experience in tech support
Experience in sales
Experience in back-office support

Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Salary/Compensations

Compensation is commensurate with experience.

Benefits

Paid Time Off
Paid holidays
Supplemental health coverage through Blue Cross
Life Insurance
Accident and critical illness insurance
Career Growth opportunities
Paid Training
Fun, Engaging Work Environment
Casual Dress Code

About the Company

MCI helps customers take on their CX and DX challenges differently, creating industry-leading solutions that deliver exceptional experiences and drive optimal performance.
MCI assists companies with business process outsourcing, staff augmentation, contact center customer services, and IT Services needs by providing general and specialized hosting, software, staff, and services.
In 2019, Marlowe Companies Inc. (MCI) was named by Inc. Magazine as Iowa’s Fastest Growing Company in the State of Iowa and was named the 452nd Fastest Growing Privately Company in the USA, making the coveted top 500 for the first time.
MCI’s subsidiaries had previously made Inc. Magazine's List of Fastest-Growing Companies 15 times, respectively.
MCI has ten business process outsourcing service delivery facilities in Georgia, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, California, Kansas, Nova Scotia, South Africa, and the Philippines.
Driving modernization through digitalization, MCI ensures clients do more for less.
MCI is the holding company for a diverse lineup of tech-enabled business services operating companies.
MCI organically grows, acquires, and operates companies that have synergistic products and services portfolios, including but not limited to Automated Contact Center Solutions (ACCS), customer contact management, IT Services (IT Schedule 70), and Temporary and Administrative Professional Staffing (TAPS Schedule 736), Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Claims Processing, Collections, Customer Experience Provider (CXP), Customer Service, Digital Experience Provider (DXP), Account Receivables Management (ARM), Application Software Development, Managed Services, and Technology Services, to mid-market, Federal & enterprise partners.
MCI now employs 10,000+ talented individuals with 150+ diverse North American client partners across the following MCI brands: MCI BPO, MCI BPOaaS, MarketForce, GravisApps, Gravis Marketing, MarchEast, Mass Markets, MCI Federal Services (MFS), OnBrand24, The Sydney Call Center, Valor Intelligent Processing (VIP), BYC Aqua, EastWest BPO, TeleTechnology, and Vinculum.

Equal Opportunity

At MCI and its subsidiaries, we embrace differences and believe diversity is a benefit to our employees, our company, our customers, and our community.
All aspects of employment at MCI are based solely on a person's merit and qualifications.
MCI maintains a work environment free from discrimination, one where employees are treated with dignity and respect.
All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling MCI's commitment to a diverse and equal opportunity work environment.
MCI does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
MCI will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements.
MCI will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
We adhere to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline.
In addition, it is the policy of MCI to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where an employee works.