Work From Home - Senior Department Operations M...
Work From Home - Senior Department Operations Manager - Customer OperationsThe Senior Department Operations Manager is a critical leadership role and the engine of our large-scale customer service organization, overseeing a large team of direct and indirect reports. This isn't just about managing volume; it's about finding the next level of operational efficiency and customer delight. The senior department manager role oversees areas of our business with elevated risk, complexity, or senior stakeholder engagement, and we need a visionary who can drive results, inspire performance beyond our current benchmarks, and cultivate an environment where every agent and unit manager excels, while ensuring we are caring for the additional risks and complexities. This leader will be responsible for translating strategic objectives into daily operational excellence, focusing on core areas like managing talent pipelines, optimizing cost-to-serve metrics, and identifying breakthrough process improvements that elevate service quality across the entire customer journey. Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the day-to-day operations of the department to ensure all established service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) are consistently met or exceeded
- Proactively identify risks, create contingency plans, monitoring, and response plans to care for risks
- Partner with intent, workforce management, and other related teams to implement changes
- Elevate performance misses and proactively problem solve when unforeseen events impact operations health
- Analyze performance data to identify trends, pinpoint root causes of inefficiencies, and implement strategic adjustments
- Actively identify and champion opportunities to deliver improvements in process, service, and cost
- Maintain awareness of upcoming intent and stakeholder needs to ensure operation is positioned to respond
- Cultivate a high-energy, results-oriented, and customer-focused culture across all reporting lines, ensuring alignment with company values
- Direct and coach Unit Managers, ensuring they have the skills and coaching capabilities necessary to manage and develop their respective teams effectively
- Own the employee lifecycle, including performance management, succession planning, and driving high engagement. This includes managing talent by identifying high-potential employees for growth and addressing performance gaps decisively
- Maintains up-to-date expert knowledge of business area policies and procedures and ensures team awareness and compliance with all changes.
- Ensure consistency and quality across all customer interactions by maintaining rigorous quality standards and addressing critical customer feedback
- Ensure all departmental actions and employee conduct strictly adhere to company policies and all relevant regulatory compliance standards
- Secure home office environment that is free from background noise and distractions
- Reliable private internet connection that is not supplied via cellular data or hotspot is required
- A private network that is password protected where you have ownership or line of site sight to every device on the network
- Internet service must be provided by Cable or Fiber Internet Service Providers (ISP)
- Hotspots and satellite services are prohibited and do not meet performance criteria required for optimal agent/customer interactions
- ISP download speeds on VPN must be at least 5Mbps, with 10+ Mbps preferred
- To validate ISP speeds from a Chrome browser, go to www.google.com, type Speed Test and run from the Google landing page
- Both Hardwire and WiFi internet connections are acceptable as long as speed and security requirements are met
- High School Diploma, GED or Equivalent Certification
- At least 6 years of Contact Center or Production Operation experience
- At least 4 years of People Leadership Experience
- At least 4 years of Coaching or Mentoring experience
- At least 3 years of experience using Google Suite or Microsoft Office
- At least 3 years of Relationship Management Experience
- At least 3 years of Process Management or Project Management Experience
- Bachelor's Degree
- At least 7 years of Contact Center or Production Operation experience
- At least 5 years of People Leadership Experience
- At least 5 years of Relationship Management Experience
- At least 5 years of Process Management or Project Management Experience