Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Connect Centric is a strategy execution company that partners with clients to transform strategies into measurable outcomes. The Project Manager will lead the day-to-day operation of a contact center program, owning operational performance and serving as the primary client contact. Responsibilities include contact center operations, workforce management, service levels, staff performance, training, quality assurance, reporting, escalations, knowledge management, and technology coordination.
Responsibilities
- Lead daily operations including inbound calls, outbound follow-up calls, voicemails, emails, and incident-report intake
- Maintain reliable coverage during required operating hours and adjust staffing based on contact volume, workload, employee availability, emerging events, and service-level performance
- Oversee work assignments, schedules, queue performance, response deadlines, and daily operational priorities
- Ensure the operation meets contractual requirements for call-answer times, abandonment rates, email processing, voicemail callbacks, complaint routing, incident processing, escalations, and reporting
- Monitor operational performance throughout the day and intervene before backlogs or service-level issues affect customer experience
- Manage operational risks, document issues, assign corrective actions, and track each action through resolution
- Serve as the primary point of contact between Connect Centric and the client
- Lead client meetings and provide clear updates on staffing, service levels, quality, training, risks, technology issues, corrective actions, and open decisions
- Respond to client requests and ensure agreed-upon actions are assigned, tracked, and completed
- Remain available to meet virtually with the client at anytime
- Forecast staffing needs using contact volume, average handle time, email workload, employee availability, service-level performance, and seasonal demand
- Monitor individual and team performance and intervene when quality, productivity, attendance, conduct, or compliance falls below expectations
- Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, performance reviews, coaching sessions, and corrective-action follow-ups
- Maintain staffing continuity through cross-training, backup coverage, documented procedures, and succession planning
- Conduct or oversee call monitoring, email reviews, quality calibration sessions, coaching, and corrective-action planning
- Review escalations for completeness, timeliness, and adherence to approved procedures
- Lead root-cause reviews when a contact, report, referral, escalation, or contractual requirement is mishandled
- Create, review and approve daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual, and requested custom reports
- Other duties as assigned related to contact center operations and related improvements
Skills
- At least eight years of experience in contact center, hotline, customer service, or related operations
- At least five years of experience directly managing contact center personnel, supervisors, or operational teams
- Demonstrated experience managing staffing, schedules, service levels, quality, training, escalations, and operational reporting
- Experience leading a remote or geographically distributed workforce
- Experience managing operations in a regulated, compliance-sensitive or similarly controlled environment
- Strong understanding of contact center performance measures, including service level, answer time, abandonment, average handle time, backlog, productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction
- Experience developing or maintaining standard operating procedures, call flows, escalation procedures, training materials, scripts, and knowledge resources
- Experience managing complaints, sensitive contacts, urgent escalations, or incident-intake processes
- Proven ability to identify operational risks, determine the appropriate response, and drive corrective actions through completion
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to lead difficult conversations, coach employee performance, de-escalate issues, and remain composed during urgent or sensitive situations
- Strong judgment and the ability to distinguish routine operational matters from issues requiring immediate escalation
- Highly organized and able to manage daily operations while maintaining visibility into longer-term risks, staffing needs, and contract commitments
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship
- Experience managing a federal or state government contact center, help desk, public-information service, or customer-service program
- Experience managing operations subject to contractual performance standards and formal quality-control requirements
- Experience with workforce management, quality management, call recording, analytics, customer relationship management, case-management, or knowledge-management systems
- Experience managing bilingual English and Spanish customer service operations
- Knowledge of Section 508 accessibility requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business, management, communications, public administration, social work, education, psychology, or a related field. Equivalent professional experience will also be considered
- Project Management Professional certification or a comparable contact center, operations, quality, or workforce-management certification
Benefits
- Location: Remote within the United States or its territories.
- This position is hybrid (2 - 3x a week) for candidates within 50 miles of Akron, Ohio. All other locations are fully remote.
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