Head of Shared Services - Swansea, United Kingdom - The Consumer Helpline

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Description

Contract:
Full-Time Permanent


Location:
Office based


Working Hours: 40 hours Monday - Friday


Pay:
£55,000 - £65,000 + annual bonus (dependent on personal and business performance)


About The Role
This role is new to the business, and you will be joining at an exciting time. It is a critical role that will evolve as the business changes shape in the coming years.


Reporting to the MD, you will take full responsibility for ensuring the smooth running of the departments for this organisation.

This role will also give you the opportunity to work on both a strategic and operational level - including the autonomy to make process improvements to ensure that all efficiencies are maximised with staff and clients at the heart of every decision.

You will be responsible for several areas within the business.

  • Facilities
  • Front of House
  • HR
  • Payroll
  • Recruitment
  • Service Improvement/Business Intelligence
  • Sustainability
  • Wellbeing

Key Deliverables


Define and continually refine the process and procedures in line with industry best practices ensuring that customer and team member experience is at the forefront of decisions.


This will be achieved through the:

  • Creation & management of the working areas
  • Creation and implementation of the Strategy for the working areas in conjunction with the Ops team
  • Coaching and development of the teams within your business areas (mentioned above)
  • Management of stakeholders (Internal and External)
  • Ensuring objectives and goals are set with SMART methodology
  • Continuous process improvement through a Six Sigma/Lean approach
  • Identification and solving of workforcerelated business issues
  • Analysis of operational performance
  • Ensure the HR services team offer excellent service to all colleagues. Manage processes to ensure that there is timely and accurate processing of all HR admin and payroll activities and where necessary work with key stakeholders to identify efficiencies and implement these changes.
  • Consulting on proposed changes to operations, eg. new spaces, new product/concepts
  • Budgetary and P&L accountability
  • Managing the creation, maintenance and continued development of system configuration
  • Ensure businessappropriate reports are produced regularly
  • Process all changes in contractual agreements.
  • Oversee the maintenance of all employee records and employee relations queries.
  • Look at the endtoend staff journey and manage each stage to ensure it is worldclass
  • Experience in the BPO industry or similar with actual working experience of all departments
  • Experience and insight into how the operational areas need to run with continual service improvement at heart
  • Commercially astute and customer focused
  • Great communication/interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence decision making
  • Resilient, able to work effectively under pressure, manage a diverse and competing workload ensuring deadlines are met
  • Flexible and open to change
  • Project management experience including stakeholder management
  • Operating experience in Six Sigma/Lean
  • Experience in partnering/consulting with operations teams and clients
  • Development of workforce plans (headcount planning, scheduling)
  • Experienced in the use of a range of technology and toolsets within a Contact Centre Environment
  • Advanced analytical & modelling skills in appropriate BI software
  • Experience in successful Organisational and Target Operating Model changes

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in business operations or equivalent education and experience.
  • Three or more years of successful service area management preferably in a highdemand BPO environment
If this sounds like the next challenge for you then we would love to speak to you today.


Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent


Salary:
£55,000.00-£65,000.00 per year


Benefits:


  • Company pension
  • Free parking
  • Onsite parking

Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

  • Performance bonus
  • Yearly bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Swansea: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location:
One location


Reference ID:
HSS170523

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