Operations Trainer

BPO; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

BPO is seeking a German-speaking Operations Trainer for its Cape Town operations. The role focuses on equipping agents with knowledge through engaging training, adapting to learning styles, and supervising a team during product training to ensure smooth transitions onto the floor.

Responsibilities include onboarding setup, delivering training sessions, monitoring attendance, and coaching to close performance gaps.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in customer service, back office support, community safety or similar role
• University student in Education, Psychology, Business Administration or similar field desirable.
• Strong product knowledge and customer service expertise.
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills.
• General knowledge of adult learning principles.
• Ability to identify training challenges and address gaps through targeted interventions.
• Ability to manage a team during training.
• Uses existing procedures to solve standard problems, analyzes information and standard practices to make judgments.

Responsibilities

• Oversee onboarding of agents ensuring required system access for training and training room setup.
• Deliver engaging and effective training sessions on products and systems to new and existing agents.
• Monitor attendance and performance of a group of agents during training and guide transitions.
• Support transitions from classroom to on-the-job training and to the operations floor with feedback and action plans.
• Assess post-training knowledge retention and performance during nesting; address gaps with targeted coaching.
• Support complex customer issues/escalations as required by the account.
• Stay up to date with account requirements and take operations calls when defined.

Skills

Product knowledge

Customer service expertise

Presentation skills

Adult learning principles

Team management during training

Problem solving with procedures

Education

Education/psychology student

Business administration

Equivalent experience

Job description

GERMAN SPEAKING OPERATIONS TRAINER REQUIRED

As an Operations Trainer-Junior you play a key role in equipping agents with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed. You deliver engaging training sessions using the client’s existing curricula, adapting to diverse learning styles to maximize agent comprehension. You provide supervision to a team of agents during the period of product training, ensuring attendance and performance, and collaborate with Operations leaders to ensure a smooth transition from classroom to on-the-job training to the operations floor.

List of Functional Responsibilities

• Oversee the onboarding of agents ensuring required system access for training, and training room set up
• Deliver engaging and effective training sessions on products and systems to new and existing agents, utilizing various methodologies and technologies
• Monitor attendance and performance of a group of agents during training recommending their transition to production or termination
• Support the transitions from classroom to on-the job training and then to the operations floor by giving feedback and developing action plans to enhance an agent's performance when necessary
• Assess agent post-training knowledge retention and performance during nesting to identify and address gaps through targeted coaching/ training
• Support complex customer issues/ escalations when required by the account
• Stay up to date as required by account (taking operations calls or other defined)

Educational Attainment

University student in Education, Psychology, Business Administration or similar field is desirable or equivalent experience

Years of relevant experience

2+ years of experience in customer service, back office support, community safety or similar role

Technical/Niche skillset required

• Strong product knowledge and customer service expertise
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills
• General knowledge of adult learning principles
• Ability to identify training challenges/ performance gaps and address them through targeted interventions
• Ability to manage a team during training
• Uses existing procedures to solve standard problems, analyzes information and standard practices to make judgments