Real Time Analyst in Sheffield

Location: Sheffield

Salary: Hidden

Recruiter: FirstGroup

Job Hours: Full-time

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About the job

Working in the workforce planning team, monitoring real time call and work volumes.

Maintaining service levels across all departments ensuring real time needs are met.

Coordinating and adjusting staffing as required.

You will provide regular intraday and summary reports to the management team.

Review and make recommendations to the call centre managers, shift and schedule changes based on short, and near-term call predictions.

Your main responsibilities will be:

Monitor real time call flows, administration workflow and takes action to maintain target service levels.

Coordinate appropriate staffing allocation and availability of staff across all departments to achieve service level objectives.

Monitor real time adherence and highlight nonadherence to managers where appropriate.

Produce reports out of teleopti on things such as adherence and shrinkage.

Work with MI team to ensure that reports cover any aspects that are not available through teleopti such as non-scheduled non work activity.

Manage availability in real time and make appropriate recommendations to the operations management team to maximise utilisation.

Working with the operations team managers to manage service levels across cases, call flows and emails.

Optimise off phone activity where required.

Review any gaps in coverage and suggest solutions to the management team to correct.

Schedule off phone activities such as daily huddles, team meetings and pre booked training at the most appropriate times to ensure SL coverage.

Manage holiday exceptions with Operations managers.

Provide intraday updates to operations management team and facilitates real time discussions.

Collates potential reasons for forecast inaccuracy and feeds these to the Workforce Manager and Operations team

As a minimum, you will need to have:

Real time experience in a multi-channel environment using a WFM solution (preferred but not essential)

Ability to build and maintain relationships.

Experience of WFM solutions (preferred but not essential)

Knowledge of call centre operating systems – Amazon connect (preferred)

Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment, with deadlines.

Capacity to work tactfully with discretion and confidentiality.

Good Microsoft Office skills

Organisational and time management skills

Good communication skills, both written and verbal

About the location

Sheffield city centre at our modern offices.

Ten minutes' walk from Sheffield Station.

Travel to other UK locations as appropriate

Working pattern

37.

5 hours per week, between 0800 and 1800 Monday to Friday; some weekend working by exception

The Reward

25 days Holiday plus National Bank Holidays

Travel Offers for Bus and Rail*

Payroll Giving – donate directly from your pay to a Charity of your Choice

Shopping Discounts including discounts and cashback on electrical goods, your weekly shop, holidays, cinema trips, car insurance, upgrading your mobile and lots more

All employee Share Schemes*

Save as You Earn - gives you the opportunity to save a regular amount each month for three years. At the end of the savings period, you can use your savings to buy shares at a discounted price set at the start of the Scheme, or take your savings as cash.

Buy as You Earn - allows you to buy shares each month, with 2 free ‘matching' shares for each 3 shares you buy. You can vary the amount you save, or stop it at any time. You need to participate in the scheme for at least 3 years in order to receive the matching shares.

Employee Assistance Helpline – free, confidential employee support service provided by an independent provider

*after 6 months of employment

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