Customer Service Delivery Lead
Job type: Full Time · Department: Customer · Work type: Hybrid
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
About the Company
Cover Genius is a Series E Insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Hopper, Skyscanner, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee.
Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year. Our team and products have been recognized sed with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times who ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commits itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.
Our People are Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired
Our People are not Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious
About the Role
We are seeking a Customer Service Delivery Lead to manage day to day multi channel customer support operations across chat, voice and email.
This is a hands on operational leadership role. It is not a strategic or advisory position. You will be present in the daily workflow, supporting the floor in real time, answering agent questions, reviewing cases and ensuring processes are followed consistently.
You will:
Lead live operations and monitor queues daily
Coach and mentor agents directly
Deliver structured training and refresher sessions
Enforce adherence to processes and quality standards
Address underperformance promptly and clearly
Lead daily or weekly team standups.
Contribute actively to QA calibration and case reviews
This role requires someone comfortable being close to the detail, visible to the team and accountable for daily service outcomes. If you prefer high level planning without hands on execution, this role will not be a fit.
Key Responsibilities:
Operational Ownership
Manage daily performance across chat, voice and email
Own SLA, backlog and response time management
Allocate workload across time zones
Act as escalation point for complex cases
Leadership
Provide on floor coaching and real time guidance
Address underperformance directly and promptly
Contribute to QA calibration and quality uplift
Mentor team members to improve capability
Data & Reporting
Analyse performance dashboards and trends
Identify root causes and implement corrective actions
Deliver structured weekly performance reporting
Governance & Compliance
Ensure adherence to regulatory and policy standards
Support complaints handling processes as required
Maintain documentation and audit readiness
Continuous Improvement
Identify operational inefficiencies
Recommend and implement process improvements
Support automation or workflow enhancements where relevant
Skills & Experience:
What you will bring
5 to 7 years in customer support operations
2 to 3 years leading teams of 8 to 20 agents
Experience managing cross border or offshore teams preferred
Strong understanding of SLA drivers and capacity planning
Demonstrated experience improving SLA, CSAT or QA outcomes
Experience in regulated or high governance environments preferred
What you will have
Strong operational discipline
Assertiveness and confidence in decision making
Data literacy and analytical thinking
Clear and structured communication
Ability to coach and develop team capability
Resilience under pressure
Accountability mindset
Key Initiatives:
Stabilise and consistently achieve agreed SLAs
Lift QA benchmark across all channels
Improve team accountability and performance consistency
Strengthen structured reporting and stakeholder confidence
Maintain NPS above agreed target
Why Cover Genius?
Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?
• Flexible Work Environment - Our teams are hybrid. We work from home on Wednesdays and Thursday and collaborate in office on Monday, Tuesday and Friday with flexibility around start/finish times. With the added benefit of a Wellness day a month
• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.
• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.
• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!
Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!
* Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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