Workforce Management Lead

Wise; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise in Hyderabad is seeking a WFM Lead to support and level up the Workforce Management team, optimize SLA and efficiency, and maintain agent well-being. You will drive forecasting accuracy, scheduling strategies, and global capacity planning across regions.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, data-driven decision making, and continuous process improvements, with a focus on scalable operations and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Lead teams across global operations and build cross-functional relationships.
• Demonstrate advanced Excel/Spreadsheets and data analysis skills.
• Experience with BI tools (Looker) and data-driven decision making.
• Knowledge of SQL and Python is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Grow and level up your team and define 3-month scheduling strategy.
• Develop scalable scheduling/intraday routines for global coverage.
• Improve forecasting accuracy and WFM KPIs like cycle times and SLA attainment.
• Automate processes to reduce waste and enhance efficiency while protecting agent well-being.
• Co-own quarterly OKR setting with fellow leads.
• Build regional WFM capacity plans and supporting reports.

Skills

People leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

BI tools Looker

Excel advanced

SQL

Python

Data analysis

Tools

Looker

Excel

SQL

Python

Job description

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money.

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money.

Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money. As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.

For everyone, everywhere.

Job Description

More about our mission and what we offer.

As a WFM Lead, you will play a crucial role in supporting our agents and operational teams to optimise SLA and efficiency whilst protecting agent well-being. You'll be supporting and levelling up our WFM team in our quest to provide the best and lowest-effort customer experience, whilst ensuring our processes and costs scale globally with the company's rapid growth

Your Mission

• Grow and level up your team, supporting their development through the WFM Career map and beyond
• Set the scheduling strategy for the upcoming 3 months or intraday strategy for the next 2 weeks
• Build scalable scheduling or intraday routines, identify and highlight replication opportunities for global consistency
• Understand and interrogate our forecasts, making adjustments using your expertise and optimise our coverage to meet our SLAs, efficiency goals and resolution times
• Identify process improvement opportunities and take the initiative to automate, improve efficiency, and reduce waste and cycle times across WFM practices, whilst always considering our agents’ well-being
• Drive and be accountable for WFM KPI improvements (forecasting accuracy, scheduling accuracy, cycle times, intraday effectiveness)
• Identify performance opportunities through quality, data analytics and source-of-truth reporting
• Recommend capacity requirements and coverage distribution opportunities, supporting our strategy
• Work with our Vendor Management team to highlight opportunities and increase our flexibility
• Continuously improve our rolling 18 month capacity plan for the business unit, supporting your analysts with your expertise in reducing wMAPE rates
• Co-own quarterly OKR target-setting with your fellow leads
• Build out reports to improve the quality of decision-making in collaboration with our planners and analysts
• Build smaller-scale forecasts to support exceptional events, such as incidents
• Build regional WFM capacity plan for your team

Qualifications

You are passionate about leading people, building teams, and making a difference in your work, while also having a strong understanding of operational teams and processes. You have experience working across global teams, across different functions and you understand how to communicate cross-culturally. You get it done. You can identify and resolve issues independently, taking initiative even under unfamiliar or ambiguous circumstances. You've worked with BI tools before like Looker etc. and your Excel/Spreadsheets skills are advanced! SQL and Python skills are a plus.

• Experience as a people lead: At least 3 years of experience leading teams and 2 years in a Workforce Management role.
• Independent problem solver: Ability to identify and resolve issues independently, even in unfamiliar or ambiguous situations.
• Self-starter: Proven track record of taking ownership and creatively solving problems, while improving efficiency.
• Strong understanding of WFM: Knowledgeable in forecasting and different forecasting models, capacity planning, scheduling, and real-time management.
• Strong relationships with stakeholders: Ability to connect and maintain relationships with various internal teams.
• Strategic and data-driven: Ability to think strategically, translate strategy into operational plans, and analyse and interpret data.
• Process Expert: Lean Six Sigma experience to green-belt level, understanding how to formally document processes, automate, improve efficiency, and reduce waste and cycle times across WFM practices

Additional Information

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders - without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.

Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.