Dutch Speaking Team Leader

Black Pen Recruitment; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global digital business services provider in Cape Town is seeking a Dutch Speaking Team Leader for their contact center. The role involves managing and developing a team to meet business objectives while ensuring high-quality standards. Essential qualifications include leadership experience in BPO, strong customer service skills, and the ability to communicate proficiently in Dutch. Candidates must be comfortable in a high-energy environment with a focus on team development and performance management.

Qualifications

• Must be able to communicate proficiently in Dutch.
• 1+ years of leadership experience within BPO required.
• Strong customer service experience is essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop team to achieve business goals.
• Conduct daily meetings and performance evaluations.
• Ensure all key performance indicators are met.

Skills

Leadership experience within BPO

Customer Service experience

Analytical Thinking

Coaching

Communication

Planning & Organizing

Excellent interpersonal skills

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Dutch Speaking Team Leader (BPO/Contact Center)

About the job Dutch Speaking Team Leader (BPO/Contact Center)

Our client is a leading global digital business services provider, recognized for its vast scale and local presence that enable impactful contributions to communities, clients, and the environment. With a commitment to innovation and sustainability, they deliver cutting-edge, digitally-powered services designed to help some of the world’s most prestigious brands optimize their operations. By leveraging their expertise in advanced technology and deep industry knowledge, they streamline business processes in ways that are both meaningful and sustainable, driving long-term success for their clients.

Role Overview

The successful applicant will be responsible for directly managing and developing a team to efficiently and effectively achieve business and campaign objectives, ensuring quality standards are adhered to at all times.

Job Type: Full-time/Permanent

Location: Cape Town

Workplace: Onsite

Requirements

• Must be able to communicate proficiently in Dutch
• Leadership experience within BPO 1 year +(Essential)
• Customer Service experience (Essential)
• The ideal candidate will be comfortable in a fast-paced, multi-tasked, high-energy environment.
• She or he is a self-starter, capable of working without direct supervision and maintaining high performance in ambiguous situations.
• Analytical Thinking, Coaching, Communication, Continuous Learning, Customer Focus, Information Monitoring, Planning & Organizing, Ability to work under Pressure
• Team leadership and people development
• Proven background of quality related analysis, with ability to draw conclusions and recommend improvement initiatives
• Good project management skills and experience
• Ability to deep dive/analyze customer related data and draw conclusions leading to improvement initiative recommendations
• Superior judgment, diplomacy and tact
• Demonstrated ability to drive process changes and improvements
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills including an ability to communicate with all levels in the organization (technical, business, executive, external partners).
• Goal driven, target orientated, able to step back and look at the bigger picture.
• Experience in writing documentation and standard operating procedures
• Demonstrable proficiency of Microsoft Office including Excel, SharePoint, Word and PowerPoint.
• Professional approach to working with colleagues at all levels – Team Leads, Team Managers, Remote Mentors, Training Team, Support Service Teams and Global CS Teams
• Ability to communicate effectively across a multitude of platforms with team members excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Motivated to work on your own initiative.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proven ability to make and implement decisions.
• Proven ability to influence change at all levels as appropriate.
• Accuracy and Variances
• Attendance and Adherence

Responsibilities

• You should begin your day by evaluating the prior day/week/month performance reports ensuring any agents with performance issues have been followed up with and tracked.
• Daily meetings with the team, ensuring that they understand daily & trended actual results versus the goals identifying agent outliers
• Establishing priorities for the day and reviewing the execution of any process-level plans.
• You’ll call meetings throughout the day as required to make real time adjustments based on the day’s performance throughout the shift.
• Utilizing time on a daily basis to facilitate Agent development while maintaining the “80/20”rule.
• By observing agents you’ll identify and nurture their strengths and weaknesses which in turn creates an effective and sustainable team.
• You’ll ensure all key performance indicators are consistently met and exceeded.
• You actively develop your agents through talent management, monthly 1-2-1’s, Quarterly