Manager, Contact Center Operations
Required skills
- contact center
- customer service
- service level agreements
- tactical management
- strategic goals
- supervisory team
- feedback
- customer satisfaction
- call calibration
- email calibration
Nice to have
- small contact center
- growth environment
- WFM teams
- degree preferred
Role summary
Kobie, a National Top Workplace and leader in loyalty solutions, is seeking a Manager, Contact Center Operations to join their remote-first team. This role focuses on providing day-to-day tactical management and execution for a Tier 1 contact center supporting multiple clients' loyalty programs via phone, email, and chat. The ideal candidate will translate strategic goals into tactical deliverables, guide and coach supervisory staff, and ensure client requirements for service levels and customer satisfaction are met. Responsibilities include performance goal setting, skill development for supervisors, ensuring consistent customer interactions through calibration, and reporting on center activity and performance impacts. A 'can-do' attitude, strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication, and advanced computer proficiency are essential.
As a remote-first organization headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, Kobie values meaningful in-person connection and collaboration that strengthens our teams, supports our clients, and enhances our culture. While travel requirements vary by role, periodic travel may be required to support business objectives, team collaboration, customer engagements, training, and company events. Candidates should be able and willing to travel as needed to fulfill the responsibilities of the role.
Are you an experienced contact center manager who thrives on ensuring amazing customer service, meeting contractual service level agreements, executing at both a tactical and strategic level, and leading your teams to do great things? Do you embody a ‘can-do’ attitude, maintain composure no matter what, and developing your team to take on their next set of responsibilities? If you said yes to these questions, and you truly love leading and guiding a growing contact center, then you might just be the right person for the role.
In this role, you will provide day-to-day tactical management and execution of a Tier 1 contact center which supports multiple clients’ loyalty program customers by phone, email, and chat. You will translate the organizations’ strategic goals into tactical deliverables. You will provide guidance, assistance, coaching and feedback to your supervisory team while ensuring that service levels and customer satisfaction goals are being met at all times.
How you will make an impact
- Learn specific client loyalty program guidelines, initially and ongoing
- Meet all client requirements for service level and customer satisfaction
- Serve as a resource for your team for questions and assistance
- Ensure consistency and reliability in contact center agent/customer interactions through call, email, and chat calibration sessions with supervisory team
- Establish short-term/mid-term/long-term performance goals with supervisory staff
- Develop supervisor skillsets to ensure competency within current role and develop skillsets for applicable future roles
- Approach each day with a positive, professional, customer-centric & team-oriented outlook
- The ability to communicate in a clear, concise & helpful manner both orally and in writing
- The ability to take ownership of queue service levels and be held accountable to any shortcomings
- The big-picture ability to ensure effective agent schedules to meet customer needs
- The ability to de-escalate customer situations through effective communication and problem-solving skills, taking ownership of all such issues through to customer resolution
- The ability to learn and efficiently use all internal tools and resources
- The ability to work independently, following directions and instruction regarding your role
- Adhere to, and ensure your teams’ adherence to, company policies and procedures relating to servicing customer accounts and supervising employees
- Serve as a point person and resource for peers and other coworkers to assist with service delivery
- Work with internal and external customers and clients to understand trends and emerging issues, and work with parties responsible for the effective resolution of any such trends or issues
- Interact daily with agents to build team morale and demonstrate support
- Develop and deliver center activity reporting; be knowledgeable of events that impact(ed) team performance
What you need to be successful
Advanced computer knowledge with a high level of expertise in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
A ‘whatever it takes’ attitude to care for customers, agents, and the business
Ability to demonstrate flexibility and agility with changes in work processes and the work environment
Strong ability to multitask and meet deadlines
Ability to make smart decisions quickly or under pressure
Advanced emotional intelligence and customer-centric service orientation
Excellent problem-solving ability and the ability to teach/guide supervisory staff through problem solving events.
Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, and listening)
- Advanced level of accuracy and attention to detail
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Excellent coaching & feedback delivery ability
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Able to evaluate multiple reports for trend patterns with the ability to decision off of multiple data elements.
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Knowledge of WFM teams and responsibilities in the contact center
Education and Experience -
At least 2 years’ college; degree preferred
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4-6 years of related, relevant experience
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