Delivery Manager – Voice (Utilites) – Kolkata

Location: Chakpachuria   •   Experience: Senior Level   •   Openings: 1
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Job Title: Delivery Manager – Voice (Utilities)  – Kolkata
Job Location: Kolkata
Work Model: Work from Office
 
Candidate Expectations
Candidate should have 10+ years of experience in International Voice process (Utilities - Electricity and Gas Customer Service).
 
Candidate Location-Anywhere in India
Candidate Industry (BPO / KPO / GBS / GCC / GSS / Captive Shared Services)
 
Education and Certification
Qualification: Minimum 15 years of regular, full-time education (10 + 2 + 3)
 
Detailed Job Description
6-10 years of managerial experience in international voice operations, with accountability for service delivery, large teams and client-facing governance.
Proven experience managing inbound, outbound or blended voice customer-care operations, shared-services or contact-centre environment.
Strong understanding of contact-centre metrics including SLA, service level, quality, customer satisfaction, first-contact resolution, repeat contact, average handling time, productivity, shrinkage, attrition and schedule adherence.
Demonstrated experience managing complex customer queries, complaints, critical escalations, de-escalation, retention and high-value customer interactions through frontline teams.
Strong client and stakeholder management, executive communication, governance reporting and issue-resolution capability.
Experience leading operations managers, team leaders, quality, training, workforce management and support functions in a matrix environment.
Demonstrated commercial awareness, budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, cost optimisation and benefit-realisation discipline.
Ability to use data, operational insights and root-cause analysis to prioritise risks and improvement opportunities.
Preferred working knowledge of electricity and gas utilities customer service, including billing, metering, payments, collections, complaints, vulnerability and retention
Own end-to-end delivery performance across international voice operations and ensure achievement of agreed SLA, KPI, quality, customer-experience and productivity targets.
Lead daily, weekly and monthly governance with clear performance commentary, risks, root causes, recovery plans, dependencies and accountable owners.
Build trusted client relationships, manage expectations, communicate operational priorities and ensure timely closure of commitments.
Lead capacity, workforce, hiring, training, nesting and readiness plans aligned to demand forecasts, seasonality and business change.
Drive customer experience through stronger first-contact resolution, effective complaint handling, de-escalation, empathy, accurate explanations and reduced repeat contacts.
Ensure consistent management of critical escalations, including containment, customer impact assessment, investigation, resolution and prevention of recurrence.
Lead managers and cross-functional teams; establish clear accountability, coaching cadence, succession plans and development pathways.
Review quality findings, customer feedback and operational trends to identify knowledge, skill, process, policy or system gaps.
Build and govern a transformation pipeline covering simplification, standardisation, automation, digital adoption and elimination of non-value-adding activities.
Manage operating budgets, staffing, productivity, cost-to-serve and contractual commitments while protecting quality, compliance and customer outcomes.
Maintain operational risk registers, audit readiness, business continuity and adherence to privacy, security, regulatory and client requirements.
Coordinate with technology, compliance, HR, finance, quality, training, workforce management and transformation teams to remove delivery barriers.
 
 Other Remarks
Flexible working in any shifts.
Documents Mandatory- Personal, Academic and professional
 
Key Skills
International Voice, Voice process, Inbound, Outbound, Contact Centre