Christopher Jacobs, Global WFM Planning Manager (Planning)

Christopher Jacobs

Global WFM Planning Manager (Planning)

iSon Xperiences

Lieu
Afrique du Sud
Éducation
Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, Health And Physical Sciences
Expérience
11 years, 6 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :11 years, 6 Mois

Global WFM Planning Manager (Planning) à iSon Xperiences
  • Afrique du Sud - Johannesburg
  • Je travaille ici depuis mars 2023

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for managing call centre resource planning and scheduling for the GSC - Global Command Centre
• Looking after all accounts in Africa, Asia and Europe
• Responsible for managing call centre technologies within planning and scheduling for the global business and business partners
• Responsible for long / short term forecasting by ensuring that the Workforce planners utilize their scheduling process and tools
• Reviewing the performance of accounts, identifying gaps with the plan and mitigate with the planners and schedulers
• Forecasting and analysing data against budget figures on a weekly and/or monthly basis
• Develop new and implement new methods of efficiencies to reduce overhead within the global business
• Tracking all WFM and some operational metrics
• Coach and upskill planners with methodologies and exposure

WFM Manager (Planning & Real Time) à Tyme Bank
  • Afrique du Sud - Johannesburg
  • avril 2022 à janvier 2023

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for managing call centre resource planning and scheduling for the CSC - Customer Support Centre
• Responsible for managing call centre technologies within Tyme Bank and business partners
• Responsible for working with call centre, IT, Quality, Training to optimize efficiency and customer satisfaction with the call floor and resources
• Responsible for long / short term forecasting by ensuring that the Workforce Analysts utilize their scheduling process and tools
• Reviewing the performance of staff, identifying training needs and planning training sessions
• Forecasting and analysing data against budget figures on a weekly and/or monthly basis
• Develop and maintain new polices and business rules
• Managing and start-up of the entire WFM function
• Develop appropriate management routines to manage & monitor adherence to implemented business processes

WFM Scheduler/Planner & Team Lead à Merchants – Dimension Data
  • Afrique du Sud - Cape Town
  • janvier 2014 à avril 2022

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure staffing levels match requirements based on call arrival patterns
• Make recommendations where applicable whether internal or external with client.
• Provide guidelines in terms of current staffing levels as well as advice on future need
• Generate schedules within WFM system with planners in Manila/Perth and create schedules in excel
• Make sure SLA’s will be met with current staff and advise if more will be needed
• Draw reports from the WFM system, as per business requirements
• Generate and distribute timely and accurate reports to the operations team
• The capture and amendment of staff information to keep call centre database updated and accurate
• Creating leave totals for operations
• Advising operations on ADH issues weekly
• Releasing and generation agent schedules 1 to 2 months in advance
• Balancing and creating of teams based on client requirement
• Creating and maintaining headcount reports and making recommendations based on it (recruitment and training)
• Managing expectations with senior management (Head of Operations and General Manager).
• WFM team lead to administrators and RTA’s

Real Time Analyst à Merchants – Dimension Data
  • Afrique du Sud - Cape Town
  • novembre 2012 à décembre 2014

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Real time monitoring of adherence
• Daily reporting on ACD, AHT and other call centre metrics
• Identifying issues that might impact the service levels
• Reviewing performances across skill sets and recommend real time changes
• Leave approval according to shrinkage and leave allowances
• Inserting and editing of exceptions in Agent\CSR schedules
• WFM contact for a multi-site centre (covering both SA and Australian sites)
• Adjust real-time schedule to accommodate extra time
• Assisting scheduler with planning and doing planning for back office departments

Éducation

Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, Health And Physical Sciences
  • à Bonteheuwel
  • décembre 2008

Specialties & Skills

Daily Operations
Capacity Planning
Planning
CALL CENTER
EDITING
MICROSOFT OFFICE
PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS
REAL TIME
REPORTS
BILLING
COACHING
SUPERVISORY SKILLS

Langues

Afrikaans
Expert
Anglais
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