Manager, Credit and Customer Engagement

• Work-Life Balance: Our 37.5-hour workweek and hybrid model (3 days in-office) promote a healthy balance.
• Wellness: Tailored well-being solutions available 24/7.
• Time Off: Minimum 15 paid vacations, 6 wellness days, with federal holidays.
• Community Support: Paid Volunteer Day to give back to your community.
• Retirement Planning: Employee and employer contribution pension plan, plus the Fairstone Retirement Savings Plan
• Development: Access to Fairstone Academy for comprehensive training and skill development.
• Employee discounts: Exclusive access to discounted products and services, including car insurance, hotels, attractions, movies, gym memberships, and more.

• Supervise staff and offer support
• Resolves issues that may involve uncommon variations of issues and may have potential for broader organizational impact.
• Evaluates subordinates' performance and makes recommendations for pay increases, promotions, terminations, etc.
• Recommends new work procedures and review existing policies for improvement.
• Coach, train and develop his team
• Ensures essential procedures are followed, by doing monthly reviews
• Develops new techniques, methodologies and approaches in offering loan products to directly support the immediate and long term growth strategies of the organization
• Able to lead a team of underwriters who oversee credit adjudication in both Network and Retail Credit in Canada.
• Lead a customer service team to meet performance targets, optimization strategies, training and coaching programs, contests, recognition programs and efficiency actions.
• Develop and execute integrated sales, relationship, and credit strategies that are aligned with the business plan to achieve desired revenue, expense and service goals.
• Set expectations for staff, fostering an environment in which team members work together to achieve all business goals.
• Support portfolio growth by identifying cross-sell opportunities, coaching the team to deepen relationships and increase client acquisition.
• Drive individual production goals with outbound and eventually inbound sales activities, including building relationships with internal partners
• Collaborate with other departments to manage company reputation.
• Assist our customers via Live Chat on their different Fairstone product and/or submission of loan applications.

• Bachelors' degree preferred or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years relevant business experience (branch network experience preferred)
• Strong relationship management skills coupled with a true 'partner' mindset/approach
• Proven ability to coordinate and manage across business segments
• Organizational and time management skills
• Optimistic, can-do attitude with a desire to win, results-oriented, strong work ethic
• Able to promote a culture of collaboration and teamwork across functional and organizational boundaries
• Ability to devise strategies and translate strategic objectives into tactical execution plans
• Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and influencing skills
• Strong leadership/influence capabilities, proven ability to drive decision making to achieve end objectives
• High degree of proficiency with Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc
• Bilingual proficiency in French and English is required to effectively manage staffing performance and to communicate with internal teams and external business partners. The role involves using the English language approximately 60%–75% of the time, and a professional level of proficiency is expected.

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