We are currently recruiting for an Operations Manager to join our team.

At ABTRAN we know that with the right people on board, anything is possible. The quality, integrity, and commitment of our employees have been key factors in our company’s growth. We are hiring the best people and helping them grow both professionally and personally, to ensure a bright future.

Let us tell you more about this great opportunity:

• Reporting into the Service Delivery Manager you will ensure consistent achievement of financial and operational KPIs.
• You will find excitement in leading and developing Team Leaders and Advisors and will coach employees to succeed in all areas of compliance with business policies and practices to ensure delivery of client KPIs, service levels, customer experience, quality measures, and legal compliance.
• Create and contribute to an environment that creates enthusiasm and accountability for satisfying customer needs.

How you will spend your day:

• Deliver and grow the business unit’s margin.
• Deliver maximum revenue and profitability through effective management of KPI’s –use the Balanced Scorecard.
• Increase the team’s commercial awareness and understanding of SLA obligations
• Responsible for delivery of contracted Service Levels and KPIs.
• Manage and develop a positive and effective relationship with the client.
• Proactively engaged in coordinating key business planning activities (e.g. forecasting, recruitment, client meetings, and reviews, etc.)
• Support the development of a continuous improvement culture.
• Support innovation by developing strategies and creating opportunities to elicit new ideas from members of the business.
• Give Team Leaders feedback on a regular basis through auditing files monthly and observation of one to ones, team meetings, etc. Know your team.
• Create the right climate and culture for the team to prosper.
• Lead by example, actively promote and foster a culture where learning and customer service are of the highest priority.

Our ideal candidate:

• Client / Account management experience
• High volume people management experience – coaching/ mentoring/ development
• Experience in Front and Back Office functional management
• Experience in a BPO is preferred
• Experience coordinating/implementing and monitoring projects and processes
• Demonstrated track record of managing to performance targets
• Previous experience of operational budgetary control
• Demonstrated management reporting experience
• Experience in identifying, assessing and developing activities to improve.

Personal Attributes required:

• Strong decision making and communication skills
• Can move from seeing the big picture to the operational perspective with ease
• Commercially aware within a challenging environment
• Can easily switch between structured, process-oriented thinking and unstructured, problem resolution
• Builds strong relationships and can influence others
• Strong leadership and coaching skills and empowers others
• Target focused to manage SLA’s
• Excellent planning and organising skills
• Highly motivated
• Does not get flustered under pressure

At Abtran once you join us you become part of a team and part of an amazing community. We believe in nurturing and inspiring our people. We offer training in many different topics in professional development and personal development. Our Learning Management System has been recognised as the ‘Most Innovative Use of Technology’ in the HR Leadership & Management Awards. We believe in motivating our people to meet their goals and progress in their career and are big on internal promotions. There are so many opportunities for progression and have had many success stories this year and in previous years.

Some other employee benefits include:

• Well-being programme focused on our people’s health and wellness
• Health Discount Programme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Pension Scheme
• Employee Discounts
• Life Cover
• Development Programmes to support your progression
• Refer a Friend Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme?
• Leap Card? Tax Saver
• Maternity Pay & Paternity Pay