Qantas

Senior Manager, Voice & Chat Experience

Qantas  •  Sydney, AU (Onsite)  •  7 days ago
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Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic, and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic, and international services.

  • Drive the future of customer servicing by shaping channel performance and influencing customer behaviour.
  • Collaborative Leadership: Work across Digital, Purchasing, and Data teams to deliver innovative self-service and digital solutions.
  • Permanent role based at our Mascot Campus

We’ve always been pioneers, and we’re proud to see that spirit in our people today. Our resilience has helped us through good and tough times, and it still drives us to keep pushing the challenging expectations today.

The Senior Manager, Voice & Chat Experience is a pivotal leadership role within the Customer Care & Recovery portfolio, responsible for optimising performance across voice, chat, email, and social channels within the Qantas contact centre network. Reporting to the Head of Customer Operations & Channel Optimisation, you’ll leverage insights on key engagement drivers (such as baggage, refunds, and booking changes) to improve channel mix, enhance the customer experience, and deliver cost efficiencies.

Working closely with inhouse analytics teams, you’ll take ownership of Contact Propensity, a key metric designed to identify the root causes of customer contact. In this role, you’ll analyse data trends, interpret insights, and develop strategies that shape customer behaviour and improve service outcomes. Working within a matrixed environment, you’ll partner with Digital and Purchasing teams to enhance self-service capabilities and deliver innovative digital solutions for agent-assisted channels. To succeed, you’ll need exceptional analytical skills, strong commercial acumen, and the ability to influence stakeholders while balancing customer needs with operational efficiency and cost optimisation.

You’ll have –

  • 10+ years’ experience in contact centre operations, channel management, or customer experience leadership roles.
  • Tertiary qualifications in Business, Operations Management, or a related discipline.
  • Proven ability to design and implement strategies for voice, chat, email, and social channels, balancing customer experience with cost efficiency.
  • Advanced analytical capability to interpret data, forecast trends, and leverage insights from metrics such as Contact Propensity.
  • Strong commercial acumen with experience in cost optimisation, budgeting, and linking channel performance to business outcomes.
  • Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influence skills, with the ability to lead through a matrixed environment and drive alignment across teams.
  • Expertise in contact centre platforms (e.g., Genesys), CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce), and analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
  • Demonstrated success in leading transformation initiatives, embedding continuous improvement, and managing organisational change.

Why Qantas?

You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully.

There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.

  • We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.
  • We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave (plus superannuation payments on all paid and unpaid parental leave until your child turns 1) and additional purchased leave options for eligible employees.
  • We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.
  • We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it’s learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.

Qantas is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion.  We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply.  If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application.  Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation.

Be a part of something special and play your part in the Qantas story – get in touch today.

Applications close Sunday 12th April

Please note: applications will only be considered for candidates who have the right to work in Australia / New Zealand without restriction or sponsorship.

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About Qantas

We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the local lands and waterways on which we live, work and fly. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.

 

Spirit is everything to us, and joining the Qantas team means bringing your spirit to ours. We have over 29,000 exceptional employees, and every year we fly millions of customers around Australia and the world – together. 

 

If you hop on board with the team, you'll experience a workplace where creativity, diversity and innovation are encouraged. We aim to give every member of the Qantas Group the support to follow their dreams, face new challenges, and let their future take flight. Ultimately, people are our priority – those who work for us and those who travel with us. 

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Industry
Aviation & Aerospace
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Mascot, AU
Year Founded
1920
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