I&P-GN - SONG - Service - WFI-Associate Manager

Accenture; Bengaluru; Remote; INR 3,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture invites seasoned professionals to join its Strategy & Consulting Global Network, SONG practice, focusing on workforce optimization across industries. You will design, build and implement strategic workforce plans, lead AI-enabled center transformations and help clients optimize their customer service operations in a global, virtual environment.

The role emphasizes leadership, client engagement, and cross-functional collaboration with extensive experience in contact center technologies

Qualifications

• Excellent communications & presentation skills.
• Strong project management skills and ability to mobilize across stakeholders.
• Experience delivering workforce optimization programmes across multiple opportunities.
• Familiarity with WFM platforms like Nice, Verint, Calabrio, Aspect, Genesys.

Responsibilities

• Lead large scale transformations on AI enabled contact center / customer service with focus on workforce optimization.
• Provide workforce optimization strategy and operating model design for clients.
• Drive migration of workforce management platforms to cloud-based solutions.
• Support pre-sales activities and solutioning for workforce optimization opportunities.
• Manage project delivery and guide teams across remote and global environments.

Skills

Communications

Presentation skills

Project management

Remote/global delivery

Solution design

Tools

Nice

Verint

Calabrio

Aspect

Genesys

Job description

Explore an Exciting Career at Accenture

Are you passionate about scaling businesses using in-depth frameworks and techniques to solve customer facing challenges? Do you want to design, build and implement strategies to enhance business performance? Does working in an inclusive and collaborative environment spark your interest?

Then, this is the right place for you! Welcome to a host of exciting global opportunities within Accenture Strategy & Consulting Global Network, SONG practice.

The Practice - A Brief Sketch

The practice is aligned to the Capability Network Practice of Accenture and works with clients across their marketing, sales and services functions. As part of the team, you will provide transformation services driven by key offerings like Living Marketing, Connected Commerce and Advanced Customer Engagement. These services help our clients become living businesses by optimizing their marketing, sales and customer service strategy, thereby driving cost reduction, revenue enhancement, customer satisfaction and impacting front end business metrics in a positive manner.

You will work closely with our clients as consulting professionals who design, build and implement initiatives that can help enhance business performance. As part of the team, you will drive the following

• Help our clients to create the workforce optimization strategy
• Work with clients to drive migration of workforce management platforms to new age technologies based on AI/ML
• Build target operating model for workforce management practice
• Assist clients in driving operational efficiencies through leading operational practices within the contact center/customer service organization
• Provide an impartial assessment of workforce management solutions
• Design & create strategic plans for WFO (Project & Programme)
• Design & create the solution architecture for workforce management transformation with best practices (across platforms)
• Lead large scale transformations on AI enabled contact center / customer service opportunities with clear focus on workforce optimization
• Build and influence relationships, grow collaborative partnerships with clients
• Experience using industry enterprise frameworks and methodologies to deliver business capabilities through whole systems design and architecture
• Work with pre-sales teams to support the solutioning of workforce optimization opportunities
• Manage performance of teams and identify performance improvement plans when required
• Develop both thought leadership points of view and new service offerings to differentiate us in the marketplace

Qualification

Bring your best skills forward to excel at the role:

• Understand market and customer challenges, ability to address these challenges in a differentiated manner vs. the competition. Includes similar level of understanding with regards to all the workforce management vendor technologies
• Help the team to be able to solution, sell, deliver workforce optimization solutions to clients. Readiness includes:Product overview, Partner readiness support, pricing, documentation, first call presentations
• Ability to drive Partner support activities which includes a strong focus on nurturing deeper, more strategic relationships with key parties
• Excellent communications & presentation skills
• Ability to develop requirements based on leadership input
• Ability to work effectively in a remote, virtual, global environment
• Strong project management skills:ability to mobilize and organize across multiple stakeholders (client and internal) and projects
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Your experience counts!

• Minimum 8+ years for Manager and Minimum 12-15 years for Senior Manager of experience in delivering workforce optimization programmes across multiple opportunities
• Exceptional customer management & people management skills
• Cross domain experience includes Insurance & Financial Services, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment and Technology based companies.
• Experience in handling different kinds of Contact Center process like inbound, outbound, sales & marketing campaigns, handling employee queries, customer support desk
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
• Practical knowledge on WFM platforms like Nice, Verint, Calabrio, Aspect, Genesys - with focus on cloud solutions
• Practical knowledge of AI powered WFM solutions from similar providers
• Aware of quality and reporting platforms with the same providers as above
• Experience in building integration with other contact center platforms
• Good to have certification in any of the above mentioned platforms - WFM solution