Operations Team Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions Philippines Inc.; Philippines; On-site; PHP 2,400,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Philippines Inc. in Pasig is seeking a Senior Contact Center Manager to own delivery of operational metrics, CSAT, SLAs, and capacity utilization.

You will lead a cross-functional team including Team Leads, QA, and Trainers, drive process improvements, and manage client relationships. Role requires strong strategic planning, budget management, and the ability to coordinate across multiple geographic teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/College Degree required in any field; MBA preferred
• PMP certification or relevant domain certification advantageous
• 5+ years in a senior contact center managerial role
• Background in financial accounts, payment gateway, and customer service advantageous
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for global customers
• Willingness to work at Giga Center, Pasig; ability to work mid-graveyard shifts and weekends if needed

Responsibilities

• Deliver on financial goals for the business
• Prepare and report process performance metrics to stakeholders
• Participate in governance discussions and customer forums
• Identify cost drivers and optimize them
• Identify opportunities for growth and hiring
• Provide guidance and mentorship to the team and manage attrition
• Oversee project delivery, SLAs, and productivity targets
• Ensure process compliance and drive process improvements
• Manage customer relationships through regular reviews and issue resolution
• Coordinate with support functions for infrastructure and growth requirements

Skills

Senior management experience

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Leadership & mentoring

Budget & cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

PMP certification

Job description

Purpose of the Role:

• Take complete ownership and accountability for delivery of operational metrics including CSAT, SLAs and Capacity utilization for your teams & devise daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly strategies to meet targets.

• Ensure high quality of delivery and performance from the entire team including Team Lead, QA, Trainers, SMEs and Support Personnel.

• Ensure the team is always up to date with product and process knowledge and are adhering to workflow and process guidelines

• Ensure deep subject matter expertise of self (product knowledge)

• Ensure bench strength and attrition is under control and does not impact operational excellence.

• Work proactively with the Vendor Manager to deliver cohesive, coordinated and highly qualitative customer engagement experience.

• Continuously look for opportunities to improve customer experience provided by the Client and make recommendations to the Vendor Management team.

• Oversee Solutions repository and ensure Top quality solutions are available to the associates.

• Develop Service and business level agreement to set expectations and continuously measure performance.

• Developing strategies for project metric improvement beyond industry standards

• Advise management on additional resources and situations that will help growth and sustained productivity efforts.

• Manage projects for emergency operations , manage client relationships, support associates / resources for individual growth.

• Build project to multi support digital environment

• Oversee the content creation and distribution of original content and communications.

• The OM will provide overall management support for the Assigned Worker teams via close coordination with

• Team Managers and Team Leads. Duties will include, but are not limited to oversight of training of Assigned

• Workers, reporting on Assigned Workers ongoing performance (service levels performance and services quality) and functionality of MSP processes and organizational structure.

• The OM is responsible to track and provide reports of service levels for all levels of the organization to Client Program Managers at regular intervals, and work with Client Program Managers to resolve nonperformance.

• Experience aggregating daily reporting using 3rd party & 1st party reports

• Ability to lead performance analysis and long-term strategic roadmaps for high level campaigns

• Ability to manage budgets and build budget and performance projections

• Ability to prioritize and multitask with little supervision

• Strong communication skills to direct any potential issues to either the client or the Accounts

• Develop and track key business metrics around customer behavior, channel analysis and competitive analysis

Qualifications

• Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's/College Degree, any field. Post Graduate (preferably MBA), PMP certification or relevant domain certification

• Required skill(s): At least 5 years Contact Center Senior Managerial role

• Advantage if has background in: Financial accounts, Payment Gateway; Customer Service

• Excellent understanding of the social space (trends, influencers, engagement, things to be cautious of etc.)

• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and multiple geographic teams

• Good interpersonal and communication skills

• Excellent Soft skill, Communications skills (Voice & Email) to handle global customers

• Applicants must be willing to work in Giga Center, Pasig

• Applicants must be willing to work in Mid-Graveyard shift and or Holidays and weekends if needed

Areas of Responsibilities:

• Stakeholder/Business Management:

• Deliver on financial goals for the business

• Prepare and report process performance metrics to stakeholders

• Participate in management discussions (Governance discussion, Management forums with customer)

• Identify key cost drivers and ensure they are optimized.

• Proactively identify opportunities for additional business with customer

• Identify opportunities for growth & deliver on growth commitments (number of people)

• Anticipate & plan for new business & get involved in hiring

• Share value addition and best practices across teams

• Adopt best practices from other processes/ verticals etc

Customer Relationship Management:

• Manage customer relationships through regular communication with clients through weekly/ monthly reviews

• Discuss operational issues and Critical to Quality (CTQ) delivery issues with the customer

• Attend customer calls and meetings, pro-actively flag issues and prevent surprises

• Manage and resolve escalations and issues raised by customers

• Identify better ways to deliver anticipated customer needs or to deliver existing services that target customers value

• Analyze customer feedback at desired intervals and initiate ways to improve the score.

Process Improvements and Adherence:

• Ensure compliance to the set standards/norms in order to adhere to quality standards and other compliance norms

• Initiate and deliver on process improvement projects to improve process efficiencies

Project Control, Management and Review / Program delivery:

• Drive team to achieve process SLAs / metrics productivity and quality targets within the established timelines

• Ensure proper documentation and knowledge transfer as per project plan and schedule

• Work with support functions to enable infrastructure support to team and ensure zero downtime

• Prepare for infrastructure and other growth related requirements

• Ensure resource utilization and scheduling of end to end work

• Plan for resources based on volume projection and current available head count and allocate responsibilities

• Effective forward planning in terms of process delivery, people & client engagement

People/Team:

• Provide guidance and mentorship to team

• Drive knowledge management and continuous up skilling of the team

• Conduct performance appraisals for team members

• Manage attrition through skip level meetings, planning interventions, engagement calendars

• Identify training needs for direct reports and ensure domain/developmental trainings needs are met

• Participate in organizational initiatives such as recruitment drives, training programs etc.

• Deliver communication received from senior management to the team members though town halls, team meetings

Why Join Us:

At Cognizant, we don’t just offer jobs—we build careers that thrive in the digital era.

• Growth That Matters – Clear career paths, continuous learning, and opportunities to move into leadership or specialized roles. You’re not just filling a seat—you’re building a future.

• Support That Empowers – A collaborative culture where your voice is heard, your ideas matter, and your well-being is prioritized through strong benefits and work-life balance.

• Impact That Inspires – Work on global accounts that shape industries, influence millions of users, and give you a sense of purpose beyond the paycheck.

Your future starts here—grow, thrive, and make an impact with Cognizant.