Quality Coach
Start Date: As soon as possible
Employment Type: Full-time
Purpose of the Position:
The Quality Coach is responsible for monitoring and improving the quality of customer interactions. This role combines an analytical perspective with a coaching approach. The Quality Coach evaluates conversations and chats based on established quality criteria and actively guides agents in their professional development. This position contributes to consistent, customer-oriented service and the achievement of organizational objectives.
Core Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Quality Monitoring of Calls:
- Listen to and assess recorded and/or live conversations via telephone and chat using an internal quality framework.
- Evaluate communication skills, compliance procedures, customer focus, and interaction accuracy.
- Identify recurring errors, improvement patterns, and best practices within the team.
- Ensure compliance with guidelines and internal codes of conduct, such as fraud awareness and data protection.
- Perform calibrated evaluations in collaboration with team leads and other talent developers to ensure consistency.
- Coaching & Feedback to Agents:
- Provide constructive, targeted feedback to agents based on monitored interactions, both individually and in groups.
- Conduct regular one-on-one coaching sessions to reinforce strengths and address areas for improvement.
- Develop personal development plans for agents needing extra guidance, in collaboration with talent development and team leads.
- Organize targeted training courses or short refresh sessions.
- Serve as a point of contact for agents and team leads with questions about call handling, procedures, or quality expectations.
- Guide new hires through onboarding with side-by-side sessions and listening to recorded conversations.
- Reporting & KPI Follow-up:
- Monitor and report quality results, trends, and recommendations to management.
- Prepare periodic quality and coaching reports for team leads and management.
- Identify structural quality problems and formulate concrete recommendations for adjustments.
Profile:
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
- At least 5 years of experience in a contact center environment as a coach or trainer.
- Familiarity with quality frameworks, best practices in customer experience, and KPI monitoring.
- Fluent communicator in your native language (Dutch or French), with a good knowledge of the second national language.
Competencies:
- Strong personal and behavioral skills.
- Knowledge of customer service and contact center processes.
- Experience with coaching, feedback techniques, and analysis of customer interactions.
- Analytical skills and experience with quality measurements.
- Good reporting and presentation skills.
- Ability to turn data into concrete actions.
- Strong coaching and communication skills.
- Analytical thinking, customer and quality-oriented attitude.
- Proactive, result-oriented, with discretion and integrity.
- Organizational talent and planning skills.
- Empathy and motivational ability.
Internal Relations and Cooperation:
Contacts:
- Collaboration with contact center agents for direct coaching, feedback, evaluation, and guidance.
- Coordination with team coordinators/team leads on reporting, quality actions, and personal development processes.
- Interaction with management for quality reports and recommendations.
- Coordination with talent development on training needs and personal development paths.