Customer Service & Operations Function Leader, Director

Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.Join us as a Customer Service & Operations Function Leader

• If you have strong team leadership skills, this is a chance to take on a role with high levels of responsibility and exposure to internal and external stakeholders
• You’ll lead a function to achieve their KPIs and SLAs, delivering successful and appropriate customer and business outcomes
• You'll drive improvements in productivity, efficiency and service performance by coaching, inspiring and developing the skills of your people
• We are offering this role at director level
  

What you'll do
As a Customer Service & Operations Function Leader, you’ll be leading a dynamic customer facing chat process with 24*7 Operations . You’ll maintain a focus on optimising capacity, reducing costs and increasing productivity while reducing operational losses and operational errors. We’ll also look to you to maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, engaging and influencing them for efficiency gains, and keeping them up to date with any changes.You’ll also be:

• Managing risk, developing and delivering continuous improvement and driving the strategic direction of the function
• Helping to define performance indicators, measurements and the reporting of critical MI to enable the right decision making
• Producing and maintaining an effective training and accreditation plan
• Overseeing KPIs and taking actions to make sure that the unit maintains healthy matrices
• Achieving financial targets and efficiency gains through process improvement initiatives
  

The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with strong people management skills, with the ability to successful engage and motivate teams to success. Alongside this, you’ll have a good understanding of people processes and policies.You’ll also have previous experience of supply chain management, in a leadership role, with knowledge of best in class practices and processes and emerging supply chain thinking.You’ll also need:

• Experience of working in a financial services environment, with knowledge of the industry and its customers
• A good understanding of chat platforms and setting up customer interaction model in the chat environment
• Should have agile mindset for leading large operations through transformation and change management effectively
• Familiarity with role modelling on future ready capabilities and skills that bring the best of people and technology together