As a complaint specialist, your primary duties are to research and resolve customer complaints received by phone, mail, email, fax, and social media. You often communicate with customers directly to resolve issues and follow up when necessary. Additional responsibilities include forwarding complaints you are unable to address to the correct departments and ensuring the staff is handling them in a timely manner. You gather data, investigate and analyze it, and evaluate other information alongside it to identify possible problem areas. You then review your analysis to write up reports with your recommendations, including preventive or corrective actions, for management. You are also asked to find ways to improve your process if possible and maintain knowledge of all products, compliance rules, and operations.