Job Responsibilities:
- Perform Daily/Weekly/Monthly and half -hourly forecasting for contact volumes across multiple channels and contact types determining staffing requirements based on historical trends and business growth objectives.
- Account for growth, changes in customer behaviours and taking into consideration seasonal variations and trends ensuring impacts to the business are captured, analysed and recommendations of staffing are delivered in a timely manner
- Establish a statistical baseline forecast for all departments and provides clear communication of the forecasted workload, changes, assumptions, inputs to relevant stakeholders
- Analyze forecast vs demand volumes
- Maintaining the intraday patterns on WFM platform
- Work together with the other members of the Planning team to ensure understanding/requirements with our scheduling/Real time teams
- Perform ad hoc duties as assigned
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills :
- Experience in long/short Term forecasting within a workforce planning environment
- Understanding of long/short term forecasting within Call/Contact Centre
- Strong planning, time management, analytical, problem-solving and organisational skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.)
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong Experience in business analysis, reporting of business data, problem identification, resolution, and root cause analysis
- Ability to partner and work collaboratively with others
- Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders at a variety of levels
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Experience with Workforce Management systems
- Experience in Call/Contact Centre workforce management within a banking or financial services environment is beneficial