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Manager, Workforce Management

3 weeks, 4 days ago
South Africa
Full-time
Mid Level
Operations Manager
Data Science and Analytics
Metabase
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Boldr

Boldr

Boldr specializes in building global teams through ethical talent outsourcing, connecting businesses with skilled professionals while prioritizing social sustainability and performance.

Professional Services
251-1K
Founded 2016
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Description

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of Workforce Analysts and Schedulers.
  • Own workforce planning strategy across supported programs, aligning staffing and performance monitoring with operational targets and client expectations.
  • Build and maintain data-driven staffing plans, headcount models, and scenario forecasts for ramp, attrition, seasonality, and new launches.
  • Prepare business cases for headcount needs using historical data, growth projections, and productivity benchmarks.
  • Partner with client-facing teams to identify growth opportunities and support expansion planning for new channels, geographies, or product lines.
  • Own scheduling operations using tools such as Assembled, including schedule creation, maintenance, overtime, leave planning, and shift adjustments.
  • Monitor intraday volumes, queues, agent performance, adherence, and service levels, and make real-time coverage adjustments as needed.
  • Interpret and report WFM metrics through dashboards and standardized reporting, including occupancy, shrinkage, utilization, SLA attainment, and adherence.
  • Identify workforce risks and lead continuous improvement initiatives to improve forecasting accuracy, scheduling efficiency, and workforce optimization.
  • Collaborate with operations, QA, Technical Services, Implementations, and data/analytics teams to support the scaling of workforce management practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Statistics, Operations Management, or a related field is preferred.
  • 4–6 years of Workforce Management experience in a BPO/contact center environment.
  • At least 2 years of experience in a supervisory or managerial role.
  • Proficiency with WFM tools such as Verint, NICE, Aspect, Genesys, or equivalent.
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
  • Proven experience building staffing plans and headcount business cases with measurable outcomes.
  • Hands-on experience with scheduling platforms; experience with Assembled is a strong plus.
  • Proficiency with Metabase or similar BI/reporting tools.
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot to accelerate analysis, automate workflows, or build models.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to present workforce data and recommendations to operations teams and client stakeholders.
  • Experience leading or mentoring workforce analysts, schedulers, or WFM specialists.
  • Comfort working across multiple client programs in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
  • Experience in a BPO or outsourced CX setting supporting multiple client accounts is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Erlang C modeling or other contact center forecasting methodologies is preferred.
  • Exposure to implementation or onboarding workflows where WFM inputs are needed early in the client lifecycle is preferred.
  • Experience building WFM functions from scratch or in a startup or scale-up environment is preferred.

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