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Kolkata
Job Description: Team Lead – International Voice Customer Service
Job Title: Team Lead – Voice_A
Location: Kolkata, India
Job Code: 434135
Experience: 3–10 years
Band: BPO 3/4
Process: International Inbound / Outbound Voice Customer Service
Domain: Customer Service Operations
Shift: Rotational shifts, including night/graveyard shifts, weekends, and public holidays
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Team Lead – International Voice to manage and support a customer-service team handling international customers through inbound and/or outbound voice channels. The role is responsible for daily operations, team performance, coaching, customer escalations, quality assurance, productivity, service levels, and compliance.
The ideal candidate will have strong people-management skills, excellent English communication, experience handling complex customer interactions, and a proven ability to achieve operational targets while delivering a consistent, high-quality customer experience.
Key Responsibilities
1. Team Leadership and Performance Management
- Lead, motivate, and manage an international voice customer-service team to achieve service-level, quality, productivity, and customer-experience targets.
- Conduct daily team huddles, one-on-one coaching sessions, performance reviews, and employee development activities.
- Monitor individual and team performance using call observations, quality evaluations, dashboards, and operational reports.
- Identify performance gaps and implement targeted coaching and improvement plans.
- Manage attendance, schedule adherence, shrinkage, and leave planning in line with operational requirements.
- Support new-hire transition, nesting, refresher training, and continuous team development.
2. Daily Operations and Service Delivery
- Monitor real-time operations, staffing levels, workload, floor performance, and service levels.
- Ensure the team meets established KPIs, SLAs, productivity goals, and quality standards.
- Coordinate with Operations and Workforce Management teams to address staffing risks and service interruptions.
- Maintain performance trackers, action plans, risk logs, and operational reports.
- Ensure consistent execution of approved processes, scripts, and service procedures.
3.
Customer Escalation and Resolution
- Provide real-time floor support for complex customer queries, complaints, retention cases, billing concerns, and difficult conversations.
- Take ownership of critical escalations and coordinate timely, accurate resolutions.
- Coach agents on de-escalation, empathy, active listening, customer verification, and professional communication.
- Analyze repeat contacts, complaint drivers, customer feedback, and escalation trends to identify root causes.
- Promote first-contact resolution and improved customer satisfaction.
4. Quality, Compliance, and Risk Management
- Ensure adherence to approved procedures, scripts, knowledge content, customer verification requirements, and documentation standards.
- Reinforce privacy, data security, call-recording, mandatory disclosure, and complaint-handling requirements.
- Collaborate with Quality Assurance to address quality gaps and maintain consistent service standards.
- Monitor compliance risks and implement corrective actions when necessary.
- Maintain accurate records of escalations, performance issues, and improvement initiatives.
5. Reporting and Continuous Improvement
- Review operational reports and analyze KPIs, including SLA, AHT, Quality, CSAT, FCR, schedule adherence, shrinkage, and absenteeism.
- Identify trends, recurring errors, and process bottlenecks.
- Develop and implement action plans to improve quality, productivity, service levels, and customer experience.
- Partner with Quality, Training, Workforce Management, and Operations teams to close skill gaps and improve performance.
- Promote a customer-focused, respectful, accountable, and high-performance team culture.
Required Qualifications and Skills
- 3–10 years of relevant customer-service or BPO experience, with strong experience in international voice operations.
- At least 3 years of Team Lead, Acting Team Lead,
or people-supervisory experience , as required by the role description.
- Proven experience managing teams in target-driven inbound and/or outbound voice environments.
- Excellent spoken and written English, including explicit pronunciation, active listening, empathy, and professional communication.
- Experience handling complex customer interactions, complaints, critical escalations, retention conversations, and billing-related queries.
- Robust understanding of customer-service KPIs, including SLA, AHT, Quality, CSAT, FCR, schedule adherence, shrinkage, and absenteeism.
- Demonstrated ability to coach agents, manage performance, provide constructive feedback, and develop team members.
- Strong analytical skills, root-cause analysis, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Working knowledge of CRM, telephony, workforce management, quality-monitoring, knowledge-management, and reporting tools.
- Understanding of customer verification, privacy, data security, call recording, mandatory disclosures, and documentation controls.
- Ability to work under pressure, manage escalations, and meet operational deadlines.
- Willingness to work rotational shifts, including nights, graveyard shifts, weekends, and public holidays.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Utilities – Electricity and Gas Customer Service .
- Knowledge of utility billing, meter reads, payments, collections, move-in/move-out processes, complaints, vulnerability handling, and customer retention.
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline.
- Lean Six Sigma, COPC, coaching, or people-management certification.
Important Hiring Information
- Former TCS employees are not eligible to apply.
- PAN and date of birth (DOB) are required for profile creation.
- Candidates should clearly highlight international voice experience, formal team leadership responsibilities, KPI ownership, escalation handling, and relevant domain experience in their latest resume.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a hands-on customer-service leader who can manage daily international voice operations, coach and develop agents, resolve complex customer issues, and consistently deliver quality, compliance, productivity, and customer-satisfaction targets.
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