Sr. Specialist, Customer Experience Operations

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Royal Caribbean Group’s Operations Control Unit (OCU) Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Spec, Operations.

Position Summary

Under general supervision this position is responsible for real-time operational management, database management, future staff planning and historical reporting of all RCCL contact center activities. This role will examine the contact center trends for North America, the Philippines, as well as a 3rd party vendor for a total of 2,200 employees. Trends include but not limited to call volumes, call patterns, staff productivity, attrition rates, and resource allocation. The Operation Specialist must be able to handle unplanned events and ever changing call flows in a proficient and professional manner. This position will also have some level of leadership responsibility and will be asked to conduct themselves in a leadership manner with professionalism, outstanding customer service and accountability. Identifying organization as well as department policies and procedures will be required. Completing tasks accuracy and efficiently will be required in a time sensitive environment. Multi-tasking and prioritizing will be required while meeting necessary deadlines. The administrative requirements in a contact center environment are always evolving and the Operations Specialist must be able and willing to evolve within this environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. This position would be a lead contact for general questions from the Workforce Planning as well as the leadership team. They would also back up the Operations Supervisor which would include but is not limited to the supervision of daily activities within the department and assist with new hire and ongoing training. This role will require innovative thinking and willingness to create and support ideas.

2. Responsible for ensuring staffing, call routing, service levels and abandonment requirements are at the optimal levels for all areas of the contact centers. Responsible for reacting to and correcting unplanned operational disruptions. This includes resource allocation, call routing, and working with the leadership team in order to meet departmental objectives. Managing staffing levels with overtime and undertime. This role will also assist with training, monitoring and calibrating the Workforce Planning teams across each site to ensure best operational efficiencies are in place.

3. Responsible for identifying aspects of daily operational duties that are in need of improvement, troubleshooting, and/or implementing a more efficient process. This includes

but is not limited to knowledge of operational functions, open communication, proficient skill in Microsoft Office products and other databases listed below.

4. Responsible for ensuring that all the data entry associated with the operations databases are maintained and kept accurate through routine auditing. Establish and maintain all databases for accuracy in administration and reporting functions. This includes Aspect (Workforce, RTA & Empower), Avaya CMS (call management system), Hyperion, and future databases not listed but that may be introduced to the operations area to improve the operational performance of the contact centers.

5. Responsible for assisting management, supervisors, agents and the Workforce Planning Team in scheduling time off as well as trainings, briefings and events as they arise. Accuracy and creativeness will be required to perform this task as it is constantly evolving. Responsible for the creation and implementation of shift bids, vacation bids, and holiday bids of all contact centers across all business areas.

6. Plan and forecast short term and long term workload / call volume associated with each call center area. Must be knowledgeable in weekly staffing patterns and will be responsible to create and assist in weekly intra-day performance reports. Weekly management of overtime and undertime planning. Excellent communication skills with the leadership team in regards to forecast planning is a requirement.

7. Responsible for the preparation, analysis and recommendations of multiple reports related to the operational and staffing performance of all contact centers across all business areas.

8. Provide our employees information on different contact center attendance policies across the brands and sites in North America as well as the Philippines. This includes the understanding of different scheduling, adherence and time off requirements that must be implemented and managed throughout the different organizations in order to keep the consistency and integrity of all attendance policies.

9. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or management.

Qualifications

Four-year college degree (BA) preferred or 3-5 years of applicable call center experience required. 

Knowledge and Skills

· LANGUAGE SKILLS: Strong verbal and written communication skills are required. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from senior management, directors, managers, supervisors and agents in a professional and courteous manor. Ability to read, analyze and interpret governmental regulations and Attendance guidelines. Demonstrate effective questions and listening skills.

· MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.

· REASONING ABILITY: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw conclusions. Ability to solve problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only

limited standardizations exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or scheduled form. Ability to comprehend and work with multiple time zones and military time.

· SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: PC experience including Microsoft Office required. Additional software preferred but not required Aspect (Workforce, RTA and Empower) Avaya CMS Supervisor, Route-it, Hyperion, and Microsoft Outlook.

· OTHER QUALIFICATIONS: Must have strong analytical, organizational and administrative skills. Demonstrate strong initiative and motivations as a self-starter. Must possess excellent interpersonal skills. Should effectively build relationships and encourage collaboration in all locations in order to manufacture positive and significant outcomes.

· Maintain confidentiality at all times, take ownership of situations and escalate issues to the appropriate party for immediate resolution.

We know there's a lot to consider.  As you go through the application process, our recruiters will be glad to provide guidance, and more relevant details to answer any additional questions. Thank you again for your interest in Royal Caribbean Group. We'll hope to see you onboard soon!

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: · The physical demands described here are representative of those requirements employees must meet to perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodations.· Ability to see (visibly) computer monitors, use fingers, hear customers via phone and in person. Specific vision abilities required include close vision and ability to adjust focus. The employee is regularly required to sit, stand, write, review, type reports, compile data, and operate a pc. The employee regularly moves about the office complex, and may climb, descend, lift or move 10 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: · The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodations. The environment includes office location, and /or moving inside/outside the office. A high noise level is possible if visiting shipboard or offsite locations.· The work level in the work environment is usually moderate.

It is the policy of the Company to ensure equal employment and promotion opportunity to qualified candidates without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, sexuality, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Royal Caribbean Group and each of its subsidiaries prohibit and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment.