Supervisor

Teleperformance; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 240,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Teleperformance Cape Town is seeking an experienced Team Leader to directly manage and develop a team, ensuring delivery against business and campaign objectives while maintaining high quality standards. The role requires ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment and to lead initiatives that improve performance and customer service outcomes.

You will conduct daily performance reviews, coach team members, and implement process improvements.

Qualifications

• Customer service experience required.
• Willingness to work on rotating shifts and variable schedules.
• Familiar with email tools used by suppliers (Google and Windows).
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to navigate between multiple windows and web-based apps.

Responsibilities

• Review performance reports from prior day/week/month.
• Follow up on agents with performance issues.
• Lead daily team meetings to review results vs goals.
• Prioritize daily tasks and adjust processes in real time.
• Develop agents through coaching and 1-2-1s and quarterly reviews.

Skills

Customer service

Shift rotations

Email tools (Google, Windows)

Office applications

Multi-window navigation

Education

Matric/Equivalent

Job description

Overview

Job 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.

Qualifications

Qualifications and Experience

• Matric/ Equivalent
• Minimum of 6 months + tenure with Teleperformance as a current Team Leader – Essential
• Customer Service experience
• Able to work on shift rotations & Able to work a varying schedule
• Knowledge of e-mail application utilized by Supplier (Google and Windows Tools)
• Has basic knowledge of Office Applications and used a desktop computer system before
• Ability to navigate between multiple windows
• Ability to launch and close applications
• Ability to navigate within folder system
• Ability to navigate within web-based applications

Responsibilities

Main Responsibilities (but not limited to)

• 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 my team, ensuring Team 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 Reviews and personal development plans.

Skills & Attributes

• Customer service skilled
• 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.
• Ability to understand customer issues
• Good problem-solving skills
• Ability to approach problems logically
• Ability to empathize with the customer
• Ability to effectively respond to customer needs
• Motivated to work on 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