Delivery Center Manager

DesiCrew Solutions Private Limited; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

DesiCrew Solutions Private Limited in Chennai seeks a Centre Manager to run a delivery centre end-to-end—from client programmes to people and operations. You will ensure quality, SLAs and capacity across multiple teams and programmes.

You will lead the centre leadership team, plan headcount and shifts, manage onboarding and retention, and maintain ISO 27001 compliance for client audits. Based on-site with occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Experience in operations or delivery management, including managing managers.
• Proven track record running a multi-team site to meet service levels.
• Bachelor's degree; management qualification welcome but not required.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery across every client programme from the centre — quality, SLA and capacity.
• Lead the centre leadership team: team leads, quality and support functions.
• Plan headcount and shifts against forecast, coordinating with recruitment.
• Own the people agenda locally—onboarding, training uptake, retention and progression.
• Maintain information-security and process standards, including ISO 27001 obligations, ready for client audit.
• Act as the senior local point of contact for client visits and escalations.

Skills

Operations management

Delivery leadership

People management

Client relationship management

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Management qualification

Job description

Run a DesiCrew delivery centre end to end - client programmes, people and operations - in the community it employs.

Location Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Type Full time

About The Role

You will run one of our delivery centres: the client programmes it delivers, the people who deliver them, and the operation around both. Our centres sit in small-town and rural India, and the centre manager is who makes the promise of skilled work close to home actually hold.

What you will do

• Own delivery across every client programme running from the centre - quality, SLA and capacity.
• Lead the leadership team at the centre: team leads, quality and support functions.
• Plan headcount and shifts against forecast volume, and work with recruitment on hiring for the centre.
• Own the people agenda locally - onboarding, DTOUCH training uptake, retention and progression.
• Keep the centre compliant with our information-security and process standards, including ISO 27001 obligations, and ready for client audit.
• Act as the senior local point of contact for client visits and escalations.

What you will bring

• Substantial experience in operations or delivery management, including managing managers.
• A track record running a multi-team site or a large delivery programme to committed service levels.
• Strength in the people side of the job - hiring, developing and keeping teams, including first-time employees.
• Confidence in front of enterprise clients, and sound judgement about what to escalation.
• A bachelor's degree; a management qualification is welcome but not required.
• Willingness to be based at the centre and to travel occasionally between sites.

Working arrangements

Full time, on site at the delivery centre listed above. Standard working hours, with shift cover arranged within the team where a client programme runs to a different timezone.

About DesiCrew

DesiCrew has run high-stakes AI and enterprise operations from small-town and rural India since 2007. More than 2,000 people work across our delivery centres, 68% of them women - roughly twice the industry average - and 49% the sole earner in their family. We are ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 certified and a Great Place to Work.

We hire for aptitude and train for the rest. DTOUCH, our in-house learning platform, has delivered more than 5,000 certifications and 1,200 AI-certified professionals, and training continues well past onboarding.