The Senior Manager for Training and Quality is responsible for the overall direction, coordination and evaluation of all Training & Quality Leadership employees in the applicable portfolio or vertical. Develop comprehensive processes with appropriate linkages to organizational and operational efficiencies, effectiveness and contributing to business scorecard outcomes. Ensure compliance to client training & quality measures and sales/service performance and manage overall operation of Quality Team across multiple verticals, clients with programs across multiple sites or geographies within those verticals.
Essential Core and Functions
- Develop, manage, and implement annual plan to align to business drivers, needs, and priorities.
- Work with client business leaders to understand learning, performance, and quality needs and to understand opportunities to improve business results.
- Implement clear overall quality strategy with scalable process / tools/ systems that allow resource efficient monitoring of decision accuracy and align to client contract agreement.
- Ensure appropriate staffing and utilization of the Training and Quality staff.
- Select, train, develop, and manage performance of direct reports in area of specialty; and mentoring, coordinating, planning, and providing direction for work group(s) in accordance with the program’s policies and applicable legal requirements.
- Assess quality issues, conduct root cause analysis, recommend insights, develops improvement plans, and collaborates with operations team to improve quality performance.
- Closely coordinates with clients on implementing new hire training amendments, policy updates, continuous educational trainings and upskilling of tenured production employees.
- Owns and holds accountable on ensuring knowledge base is up to date and employees are aware on changes through knowledge alignment, touch points, and process knowledge tests.
- Project management improvement capabilities, change implementation, measures timeliness of implementation and ensures employee knowledge application on their day to day activities.
- Identify potential risks or issues with project implementations, and proactively drive communication with internal and external stakeholders during projects.
- Serves as point of contact that support analysis on business performance to drive operational change around core operations, strategic initiatives, change management and adoption of new processes.
- Proactively drives operational excellence through identifying opportunities, recommend improvements, and implement training changes.
- Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws; this includes interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
- Provide analysis on critical training and quality metrics
- Assess training and quality issues, conduct root cause analysis, recommend insights, develop improvement plans and collaborate with operations team to improve performance
- Proactively identify opportunities in training and quality and coordinate with other functions
- Create and deliver required reporting as per project charter deliverables.
Candidate Qualification:
- Advance knowledge in MS excel
- In-depth knowledge of the BPO business
- Relevant experience in managing Quality processes
- Relevant experience in Business Transformation
- Project Management Experience – driving large scale improvement and transformation projects
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to engage optimally to Sr. Leadership and people from all levels of the TQ organization
- Excellent writing and reporting skills in order to transform the conversations and the current working procedures into documented business processes
- Ability to think and drive strategic initiative across a large span of operations
- Relevant experience in AI and RPA is a plus
- Knowledge in Power Bi is a plus
- Time Management Strategies
- Understanding of the expectations for COPC
- High Performance Management Strategies
- Critical Thinking/Decision Making
- Resource Management
- Performance Improvement Processes -– Six Sigma application (DMAIC)