
Gordon Sayer
Collection Manager
Recovering what's owed while keeping customers
Collections manager with twelve years in consumer and commercial debt recovery, the last six leading a collections team for a finance company in Columbus. Manages the collections operation — leading collectors, setting strategy, balancing recovery rates against compliance and customer fairness, and improving the numbers that matter. Restructured the collections strategy and team, lifting recovery rates while reducing complaints and write-offs. Manages performance and targets, handles escalations and payment arrangements, ensures compliance with collections regulations, and coaches collectors on firm-but-fair conversations. Strong on the numbers, the regulations and the people management, and clear that the goal is recovery without burning the customer relationship. Calm with difficult conversations. Looking for a collections-manager or credit-operations role with a lender or finance business.
Ohio Finance Company - Columbus, USA
Collections Manager
Restructured the collections strategy and the team, lifting recovery rates while reducing complaints and write-offs.
Set the collections strategy and balance recovery against the compliance and the genuine customer fairness.
Manage the team performance, the targets and all of the escalated accounts and payment arrangements.
Ensure full compliance with all the collections regulations and the fair-practice standards at all times.
Coach all of the collectors on the firm-but-fair conversations that recover and retain the customers.
Midwest Credit Services - Columbus, USA
Senior Collections Agent / Team Lead
Led a small team and handled the escalated and complex accounts.
Learned the collections strategy, regulation and performance management on the job.
Gained the certification and then won a full promotion to collections manager.
Midwest Credit Services - Columbus, USA
Collections Agent
Negotiated the payment plans and handled the difficult conversations every single day.
Learned the regulations and the firm-but-fair recovery approach on the job.
Then earned the move into a senior collections agent role from there.
Columbus State Community College
Associate Degree in Business Management - Business Management
ACA International
Credit & Collections Compliance Certification - Credit & Collections
Better recovery, fewer complaints
Firm but fair
Dialer & Workflow Implementation
Collections Manager (January 2019 to September 2019)
Compliance & QA Programme
Collections Manager (February 2020 to July 2020)
English
Native or Bilingual ProficiencySpanish
Professional Working ProficiencyCredit & Collections Compliance
ACA International (June 2014 to Present)
Leadership & Performance Management
Chartered Management Institute (April 2019 to Present)
- Leadership
- Composure
- Communication
- Fairness
- Resilience
- Collections Strategy
- Team Leadership
- Debt Recovery
- Payment Negotiation
- Compliance & Fair Practice
- Performance Management
- Escalation Handling
- Recovery Analytics
- Customer Retention
- Coaching