Delivery Lead Manager

Accenture; Walnut Creek (CA); Remote; USD 94,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Delivery Lead Manager to oversee remote service delivery operations from a California base. The role requires Medicaid experience, strong people leadership, and a track record of optimizing contact center performance and cost-to-serve.

You will engage with clients, manage budgets, and mentor a large delivery team to meet service levels while driving profitability and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in operations.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in people management.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in contact center management.
• Minimum 1 year of experience working in Medicaid.
• Excellent analytical, communication, organization and time management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to forge relationships with key stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Ensure delivery work across multiple service delivery operations.
• Drive optimization of delivery of standard solutions within areas of expertise.
• Deliver agreed scope of services while improving profitability.
• Address performance issues and implement continuous improvement.
• Analyze team performance and present improvement options.
• Manage supply, demand, service quality and processes to meet delivery targets.
• Lead or coordinate project planning, timelines and overtime estimates.
• Mentor and support career development of service delivery staff.
• Oversee recruiting, staffing and cost to serve to balance cost and delivery targets.
• Implement standard SLAs and contract financial requirements.
• Resolve delivery issues with leadership and formalize delivery plans.
• Engage with clients to align on objectives and outcomes.
• Forecast capacity and workload and create volume/time forecasts.

Skills

Operations management

People management

Contact center management

Medicaid experience

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Delivery Lead Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure execution of delivery work across multiple service delivery operations, as needed

• Drive optimization of delivery of standard solutions within areas of expertise

• Deliver agreed scope of services while achieving profitability improvements and productive gains

• Address performance issues across the service delivery operations, create operational approach and implement continuous improvement

• Analyze team performance and metrics, compare against benchmarks, and present options for improving overall performance

• Manage supply and demand, service quality and processes to meet delivery expectations Implement the levers to consistently achieve performance targets

• Meet with project managers on large or complex projects to determine format, plan the project timeframe and estimate the project's overtime needs

• Responsible for career management of service delivery resources e.g. training, engagement, mentoring, succession planning and annual performance process

• Manage recruiting, staffing, pyramid mix, utilization, cost to serve, and capacity of staff to optimize balance between cost and delivery targets

• Deliver efficiencies through standard processes and synergies Implement standard service level agreement SLA and other contract financial requirements

• Resolve performance issues with delivery leadership

• Formalize delivery plans for the service delivery with service group delivery leadership

• May lead or support the design of new offerings or services for industry functional technical Support sales opportunities and validate expected delivery capability

• Demonstrate expert knowledge of operational methodology to effectively deliver cross functional, consistent, repeatable and high performance process execution

• Act as escalation point to address issues concerns about service delivery performance, personnel, etc.

• Engage with client to align on program objectives, business drivers, and desired outcomes

• Translate the client’s business objectives, priorities, and challenges routinely with Service Delivery to keep alignment and progress solution

• Proactively improve client and customer relationships, while working with client account and account

• Responsible for workstream budgets and managing cost within company

• Large scale people management

• Measure and manage individual and team performance

• Optimize performance in a contact center and back-office environment around cost, growth and innovation coaching management on key performance and handling any variances Integrating innovation to continuously build superior customer service

• Analyze the impact of volume, AHT and shrinkage on the budget staffing requirement

• Analyze call drivers, the impact call types on staffing needs and opportunities for addressing drivers differently

• Manage operational forecast variance to plan Report staffing needs and performance issues impacting service levels on a timely manner, and recommend solutions to close gaps

• Forecasting Capacity Planning Analyze work volume patterns to determine trends

• Create volume forecast and handle time forecast for interval, daily and weekly

Role Requirements:

• Role is remote and requires private secure home internet

• Travel is required to Albuquerque, NM at 20-60% (1 week a month); as per client requests

• Project Operation Hours for this contact center are 8 hour shifts between 7:00 am-7:00pm MST

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in operations

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in people management

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in contact center management

• Minimum 1 years’ experience working in medicaid

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• Experience managing workforce of 100

• Medicaid experience

• Cost Management, Operational Excellence, Client Relationship Management, SLA Management experience

• Excellent analytical, communication, organization time management and problem solving skills

• Demonstrated ability to forge meaningful relationships with key Stakeholders

• Demonstrated ability to lead successful change management efforts

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 10/13/2026.

• Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.

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Role Location Annual Salary Range

• California $94,400 to $266,300
• Colorado $94,400 to $230,000
• Connecticut $94,400 to $230,000
• District of Columbia $100,500 to $245,000
• Illinois $87,400 to $230,000
• Maine $80,400 to $196,000
• Maryland $94,400 to $230,000
• Massachusetts $94,400 to $245,000
• Minnesota $94,400 to $230,000
• New York $87,400 to $266,300
• New Jersey $100,500 to $266,300
• Ohio $87,400 to $213,000
• Virginia $87,400 to $245,000
• Washington $100,500 to $245,000

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