Bilingual Business Account Specialist- Smb

Verizon Verizon · Telecom · Temple Terrace, FL

This role is for a Bilingual Business Account Specialist at Verizon, focusing on small-business customers. The primary responsibilities include making outbound calls to ensure account standing, informing customers about offers and services, and proactively identifying new business needs or referrals. The role operates within a technically advanced ecosystem where AI-driven insights help prioritize tasks, but the core function is customer relationship management and sales support, not direct AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Welcome & Onboarding: verifying products, positioning value-added services, and ensuring a seamless new customer experience. Expertly guide customers through their first bill, confidently explaining complex charges like proration, one-time activation fees, and device promotion timelines to eliminate "bill shock." Actively prospect within existing customer accounts for new business needs, employee hires, and referrals during these interactions.
  2. Base Management Outbound: Execute curated campaigns and the outbound base offer strategy—determined by Marketing—for strategic upgrades, plan migrations, and special product and service offers. Actively prospect and qualify existing customers for new business needs, employee hires, and referrals during these interactions.
  3. Value Reinforcement & Right-Sizing: You must be well-versed in Verizon's product catalog (including FWA and OneTalk) to right-size accounts, add necessary features organically when requested by the customer, and explain the value of free resources like the Small Business Digital Ready program.

Skills

Required

  • Bilingual in English and Spanish
  • Bachelor’s degree or one or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience.

Nice to have

  • Prospecting & Opportunity Generation: Active Business Identification: The ability to move beyond the primary call objective (onboarding, offer execution) to actively identify and uncover secondary opportunities, such as new business needs, potential employee hires for the customer's business, and referral leads for new accounts. This requires a questioning and consultative mindset
  • Speaking Over the Phone & Value Reinforcement: Product & Solution Fluency: Must be well-versed in the entire Verizon product catalog, including FWA and OneTalk, to "right-size" accounts, organically add necessary features, and clearly explain the value of free resources like the Small Business Digital Ready program. This ensures every conversation is productive, not just transactional.
  • Winning the First 60 Seconds (Building Trust & Authority) : Expert-Level Billing Acumen & Clarity: The confidence and knowledge to immediately analyze and articulate complex financial details. This is crucial for Welcome & Onboarding, where the representative must expertly guide customers through their first bill, confidently explaining complex charges like proration, one-time activation fees, and device promotion timelines to proactively eliminate "bill shock.
  • De-escalation & Empathy: Interpersonal De-escalation: The strength to handle immediate customer frustration—especially regarding billing—and to use strong interpersonal skills to transform a potentially negative interaction ("bill shock") into a "moment of delight," which immediately establishes a positive foundation for the business relationship.
  • System Navigation: The ability to smoothly "swivel-chair" and operate across multiple platforms simultaneously. While not a direct customer-facing skill, efficiency prevents friction, allowing the representative to focus entirely on the customer and maintain call momentum during the critical first minutes.