Team Leader - Collections - Utilities Contact Centre

An exciting opportunity for an Assistant Manager: Operations has just become available at WNS.

We are looking for professional, high performance individuals, with sound leadership and problem solving skills, to lead a team of Senior Associates to create a customer centric and high performance culture through, effective management of people, metrics and projects, with the objective of generating and the retention of business and revenue, through continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities Areas:

People

• To engage and support staff to achieve all KPI’s, through effective coaching, performance management, and to develop career progression through internal development programmes.

Stakeholder Management

• To ensure successful delivery of any project, programme or activity by engaging with an individual, group or organisation that will be affected by a programme.

Analytical

• To practice due diligence when interpreting and reporting of data, as well as to improve team performance and processes through insights which supports the overarching objective of a customer centric environment.

Financials

• To maintain productivity by ensuring all staff adhere to schedules while managing IR and payroll queries efficiently.

Behavioural Traits Required

• Communication and written skills
• Problem solving
• Analytical Thinking
• Conflict Management
• Strategic Thinking
• Time Management

Job-Related Knowledge, Competencies & Skills Required

• HR Process Knowledge
• Stakeholder Management
• Report writing
• Sound working knowledge of the latest Microsoft packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook)
• Management skills
• Good understanding of the BPO industry

Qualifications Required:

• Essential: Grade 12
• Preferred: Tertiary qualification in management or relevant proven contact center experience

Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Attributes Required:

• A proven track record of delivering against client, customer and business outcomes
• 2 years’ experience working within collections 
• 3 years of team leader experience
• Managing scale of 12-14 agents.

Preferred

• More than 2 years’ experience working within the BPO sector
• More than 3 years’ experience working in a management role
• Experience managing Omni-channel customer operations

Working Hours - Monday to Friday - 8PM to 6PM UK Time