EXL

Workforce Manager

EXL  •  Cape Town, ZA (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

  • Generates month-wise, day-wise and interval-wise forecast incorporating historical trends and other factors such as special events, seasonality, chum or growth, weather etc.
  • Runs short term forecast and re-forecast/adjust future volume projections as needed to ensure optimum staffing always.
  • Creates, maintains and updates the Capacity plan and ensures that staffing requirements, seat requirements and logistics are being delivered while balancing cost and performance.
  • Generates/reviews schedules accordingly to meet the business requirements enabling superior customer service.
  • Provides leadership and supervision to a highly engaged and self-sufficient team of WFMs, ensuring that all SLAs are met across accounts.
  • Drives high client satisfaction by managing service levels situations and providing staffing, scheduling and Real-Time Adherence solutions.
  • Protects the organization’s assets through upholding the principles of Quality Information Security Management System.
  • Serves as the main point of contact for all WFM concerns.
  • Reviews and amends the long term and short-term forecasts, schedules, and reports while ensuring accuracy and timelines of delivery.
  • Ensures workforce management process and procedures are in place and followed.
  • Conducts performance appraisals of direct reports periodically.
  • Monitors daily, weekly, monthly and the annual center performance and alerts management of any discrepancies or issues around it.
  • Monitors daily performance of forecasts and schedules against actual metrics within the center and applies changes to future plans.
  • Plans, directs, supervises, and evaluates forecasting and scheduling workflow.
  • Assists in the implementation of a Workforce Management System within the organization to enable effective management of shifts and work patterns.
  • Perform routine audits of call center reports to ensure accuracy and integrity is maintained.
  • Ensures confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information critical to fulfilling the organizations business functions.
  • Able to analyze call center trends, including call volume, call patterns, staff productivity, attrition rates, and resource allocation.
  • Proactively collaborates with other departments to identify opportunities for improvement and provides input on performance.
  • Ensures regular coaching, feedback and recognition is being done with the direct reports.
  • Excellent skills in forecasting, scheduling and real-time time management a must
  • Strong organizational skills to ensure critical timelines are met
  • Accuracy and attention to details a must in this role
  • Strong presentation skills
  • Detail oriented with ability to deliver project deliverables with little supervision
  • Excellent written, verbal and e-mail skills, with the ability to interface effectively with
  • individuals at various levels
  • Ability to effectively prioritize workload in a fast paced, real-time and frequently changing
  • environment while remaining detailed and organized
  • Demonstrate analytical, organizational, problem solving and creative thinking skills
  • Respond positively to change, embracing and using new practices or values to accomplish
  • goals and solving problems
  • Flexible and willing to work in shift schedules and during weekends.
EXL

About EXL

Choosing a digital partner is about more than capabilities — it’s about collaboration and character.

Unrealistic overhauls and off-the-shelf products ignore what matters most — your unique needs, culture, goals, and your legacy data and technology environments.

At EXL, our collaboration is built on ongoing listening and learning to adapt our methodologies. We’re your business evolution partner—tailoring solutions that make the most of data to make better business decisions and drive more intelligence into your increasingly digital operations.

Whether your goals are scaling the use of AI and digital, redesign operating models, or driving better and faster decisions, we’re here to partner with you to help you gain—and maintain—competitive advantage with efficient, sustainable models at scale.

Our expertise in transformation, data science, and change management helps make your business more efficient and effective, improve customer relationships and enhance revenue growth. Instead of focusing on multi-year, resource- and time-intensive platform designs or migrations, we look deeper at your entire value chain to integrate strategies with impact.

We use our specialization in analytics, digital interventions, and operations management—alongside deep industry expertise — to deliver solutions that help you outperform the competition.

At EXL, it’s all about outcomes—your outcomes—and delivering success on your terms. Share your goals with us and together, we’ll optimize how you leverage data to drive your business forward.

For more information, visit www.exlservice.com.

Industry
Consulting & Advisory
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
New York, NY
Year Founded
Unknown
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