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Type of Job- Permanent
Job Location - Bengaluru
Job Role - Workforce Planning & Analytics - Manager | WFM |
Experience: 10 to 15Years
Salary - 11 to 13LPA
Qualification - Graduate degree required
Notice Period - Immediate to 30 Days max
Shifts - Adaptable to work in US Shifts.
Please Note - 10 to 12+ years of relevant Workforce Management experience.
Please Note - 2 to 3 years of experience as WFM Manager on paper.
Job Overview:
The Manager - Workforce Planning & Analytics will lead forecasting, capacity planning, scheduling governance, workforce analytics, and operational planning across assigned accounts and business portfolios.
The role will partner closely with Operations, Finance, HR, Recruitment, Commercial/Solutions, and client stakeholders to ensure workforce readiness, optimize cost and productivity, manage staffing risks, and drive continuous improvement.
The position requires strong hands-on WFM planning expertise combined with client facing leadership, with accountability for developing and managing a high-performing WFM team.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Forecasting & Capacity Planning
- Own short, medium, and long-term demand forecasts across supported accounts.
- Translate volume, AHT/productivity, shrinkage, occupancy, SLA, and business assumptions into capacity and staffing requirements.
- Develop annual operating plans, hiring plans, and rolling capacity outlooks.
- Track forecast accuracy, demand variance, and staffing gaps, with appropriate corrective actions.
- Build scenario models for growth, ramp-ups/ramp-downs, attrition, seasonality, productivity changes,
and new business requirements.
2. Scheduling & Operational WFM Governance
- Govern scheduling, roster effectiveness, staffing deployment, and real-time WFM processes.
- Ensure staffing plans support contractual SLAs, productivity, occupancy, and customer experience outcomes.
- Identify capacity risks and drive mitigations through hiring, cross-skilling, schedule optimization, OT/VTO, and other levers.
- Ensure workforce readiness for peak periods, campaigns, migrations, and critical business events.
3. Workforce Analytics & Productivity
- Develop actionable insights across staffing, utilization, shrinkage, occupancy, adherence, productivity, and service performance.
- Identify workforce cost and efficiency opportunities without compromising service delivery.
- Drive automation of WFM reporting and planning processes using Excel, Power BI, and WFM platforms.
- Establish strong planning governance, dashboards, and performance review mechanisms.
4. Financial & Commercial Governance
- Optimize workforce utilization, cost per productive hour/FTE, and revenue productivity.
- Partner with Finance and Operations on workforce budgets, staffing plans, and productivity commitments.
- Support RFP/RFQ solutioning, staffing models, business cases, and commercial assumptions.
- Validate workforce assumptions for new business, expansions, migrations, and contractual changes.
Key Performance Indicators
- Forecast Accuracy and Bias
- Capacity and Staffing Accuracy
- SLA / Service Performance
- Schedule Efficiency and Adherence
- Occupancy and Utilization
- Shrinkage Management
- Workforce Cost/Productivity
- Hiring and Staffing Readiness
- Planning Risk Mitigation
- Client/Stakeholder Satisfaction
- Automation and Process Improvement Benefits
- Team Capability and Succession Readiness
WFM & Contact Center Technologies:
- Hands-on expertise with one or more enterprise WFM platforms such as NICE IEX, Verint WFM, Genesys WEM, Calabrio, or Aspect/eWFM.
- Working knowledge of contact-center reporting platforms such as Avaya CMS or equivalent.
- Strong understanding of forecasting, Erlang/staffing methodologies, scheduling, capacity planning, shrinkage, occupancy, and real-time management.
Experience
- 10 to 12+ years of relevant Workforce Management experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading forecasting and capacity planning functions.
- 5+ years of WFM people-management or leadership experience preferred.
- Strong BPO/contact-center experience across multiple accounts or business units.
- Experience supporting global or multi-geo operations preferred.
- Direct client governance and senior stakeholder management experience is essential.
- Experience supporting RFP solutioning, workforce transformation, and WFM technology implementations would be advantageous.
Please Note: Only Bengaluru candidate can apply for this role.
If Interested, Please reach out to below mentioned contact details:
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📌 Workforce Planning & Analytics - Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Inspiration Manpower Consultancy
📍 Bengaluru