Job Title: Delivery Manager – Voice (Utilities) – Kolkata
Job Location: Kolkata
Work Model: Work from Office
Candidate Expectations
Candidate should have 10+ years of experience in International Voice process (Utilities - Electricity and Gas Customer Service).
Candidate Location
Anywhere in India
Candidate Industry (BPO / KPO / GBS / GCC / GSS / Captive Shared Services)
Education and Certification
Qualification: Minimum 15 years of regular, full-time education (10 + 2 + 3)
Detailed Job Description
- 6-10 years of managerial experience in international voice operations, with accountability for service delivery, large teams and client-facing governance.
- Proven experience managing inbound, outbound or blended voice customer-care operations, shared-services or contact-centre environment.
- Strong understanding of contact-centre metrics including SLA, service level, quality, customer satisfaction, first-contact resolution, repeat contact, average handling time, productivity, shrinkage, attrition and schedule adherence.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex customer queries, complaints, critical escalations, de-escalation, retention and high-value customer interactions through frontline teams.
- Strong client and stakeholder management, executive communication, governance reporting and issue-resolution capability.
- Experience leading operations managers, team leaders, quality, training, workforce management and support functions in a matrix environment.
- Demonstrated commercial awareness, budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, cost optimisation and benefit-realisation discipline.
- Ability to use data, operational insights and root-cause analysis to prioritise risks and improvement opportunities.
- Preferred working knowledge of electricity and gas utilities customer service, including billing, metering, payments, collections, complaints, vulnerability and retention
- Own end-to-end delivery performance across international voice operations and ensure achievement of agreed SLA, KPI, quality, customer-experience and productivity targets.
- Lead daily, weekly and monthly governance with clear performance commentary, risks, root causes, recovery plans, dependencies and accountable owners.
- Build trusted client relationships, manage expectations, communicate operational priorities and ensure timely closure of commitments.
- Lead capacity, workforce, hiring, training, nesting and readiness plans aligned to demand forecasts, seasonality and business change.
- Drive customer experience through stronger first-contact resolution, effective complaint handling, de-escalation, empathy, accurate explanations and reduced repeat contacts.
- Ensure consistent management of critical escalations, including containment, customer impact assessment, investigation, resolution and prevention of recurrence.
- Lead managers and cross-functional teams; establish clear accountability, coaching cadence, succession plans and development pathways.
- Review quality findings, customer feedback and operational trends to identify knowledge, skill, process, policy or system gaps.
- Build and govern a transformation pipeline covering simplification, standardisation, automation, digital adoption and elimination of non-value-adding activities.
- Manage operating budgets, staffing, productivity, cost-to-serve and contractual commitments while protecting quality, compliance and customer outcomes.
- Maintain operational risk registers, audit readiness, business continuity and adherence to privacy, security, regulatory and client requirements.
- Coordinate with technology, compliance, HR, finance, quality, training, workforce management and transformation teams to remove delivery barriers.
Other Remarks
- Flexible working in any shifts.
- Documents Mandatory- Personal, Academic and professional
Key Skills
- International Voice
- Voice process
- Inbound
- Outbound
- Contact Centre