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Walk-in || We are hiring a WFM Manager For our International BPO Operations.

Startek (Aegis Customer Support Services Pvt. Ltd.)

8 - 10 years

14 - 16 Lacs

Bengaluru

Posted:10 hours ago

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

1. Forecasting & Capacity Planning

  • Own short, medium, and long-term demand forecasts across supported accounts.
  • Translate volume, AHT/productivity, shrinkage, occupancy, SLA, and business assumptions into capacity and staffing requirements.
  • Develop annual operating plans, hiring plans, and rolling capacity outlooks.
  • Track forecast accuracy, demand variance, and staffing gaps, with appropriate corrective actions.
  • Build scenario models for growth, ramp-ups/ramp-downs, attrition, seasonality, productivity changes, and new business requirements.

2. Scheduling & Operational WFM Governance

  • Govern scheduling, roster effectiveness, staffing deployment, and real-time WFM processes.
  • Ensure staffing plans support contractual SLAs, productivity, occupancy, and customer experience outcomes.
  • Identify capacity risks and drive mitigations through hiring, cross-skilling, schedule optimization, OT/VTO, and other levers.
  • Ensure workforce readiness for peak periods, campaigns, migrations, and critical business events.

3. Workforce Analytics & Productivity

  • Develop actionable insights across staffing, utilization, shrinkage, occupancy, adherence, productivity, and service performance.
  • Identify workforce cost and efficiency opportunities without compromising service delivery.
  • Drive automation of WFM reporting and planning processes using Excel, Power BI, and WFM platforms.
  • Establish strong planning governance, dashboards, and performance review mechanisms.

4. Financial & Commercial Governance

  • Optimize workforce utilization, cost per productive hour/FTE, and revenue productivity.
  • Partner with Finance and Operations on workforce budgets, staffing plans, and productivity commitments.
  • Support RFP/RFQ solutioning, staffing models, business cases, and commercial assumptions.
  • Validate workforce assumptions for new business, expansions, migrations, and contractual changes.

5. Client & Stakeholder Management

  • Act as the senior WFM planning representative for assigned accounts.
  • Lead client and internal workforce planning reviews.
  • Present forecasts, capacity outlooks, staffing risks, mitigation plans, and performance insights to senior stakeholders.
  • Own workforce-related escalations and ensure timely closure of planning dependencies.

6. WFM Transformation

  • Drive adoption and optimization of WFM technologies, automation, and analytics.
  • Lead process standardization and continuous-improvement initiatives.
  • Support implementation and migration of WFM platforms and integrations.
  • Identify opportunities to improve forecast accuracy, scheduling efficiency, and workforce productivity.

7. People Leadership

  • Lead and develop a team of WFM professionals across planning and associated functions.
  • Build capability in forecasting, capacity planning, scheduling, analytics, and client governance.
  • Establish succession and development plans for critical WFM roles.
  • Drive accountability, engagement, performance, and retention across the team.

Education & Experience

Qualification

  • Graduate degree required; postgraduate qualification is preferred.

Experience

  • 1015 years

    of overall professional experience.
  • 8–10+ years

    of relevant Workforce Management experience.
  • Demonstrated experience leading

    forecasting and capacity planning

    functions.
  • 5+ years

    of WFM people-management or leadership experience preferred.
  • Strong BPO/contact-center experience across multiple accounts or business units.
  • Experience supporting global or multi-geo operations preferred.
  • Direct client governance and senior stakeholder management experience is essential.

  • Experience supporting

    RFP solutioning, workforce transformation, and WFM technology implementations

    would be advantageous.

Skills Required

Hiring Workforce management BPO Capacity Verint WFM Planning Resource planning Analytics

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