Category Archives: North West

Contact Centre Operations Director/Head of Contact Centre

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Job Ref: DJMA1800
Job Title: Contact Centre Operations Director/Head of Contact Centre
Location: Permanent relocation required to a large European city.
Salary: to Circa 100,000 EUROS negotiable dep on candidate and experience base, bonus, benefits, small relocation package.
Job Type: Permanent

This role is being advertised across the UK to attract an individual who would be interested in the opportunity to relocate to a large European City for a permanent role.
The position will lead a large team within contact centre operations, in a sales through service, retention, loyalty or service environment.

This is a fast growth outsourced environment and the business will be looking for individuals who can build and develop motivated, highly engaged, performance focussed teams. You will be used to managing a P&L and developing influential relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Developing client relations to ensure the ongoing success, improvement and future retention and growth of accounts.

The head of Contact Centre will oversee client campaigns and have full relationship management responsibility, as well as owning the operational delivery, recruitment, onboarding, planning, process improvements etc to achieve SLA’s and KPI’s across sales and service for a multi disciplines, multi-lingual, multi-channel operation.

A senior leader you will have the gravitas, influence and operational, commercial experience to take full P&L responsibility, drive the strategic vision and own sales and service with many blue chip and award winning brands for UK, European and a global customer base. The role will include team leadership, development and performance, as well as being the primary point of contact for the external stakeholders on a strategic level.

If you are interested in applying for this position, you will need to have proven Head of Contact Centre/Account Director/Client Services Director level experience gained at a strategic level working within a third-party supplier management, outsource, or BPO capacity.

To apply for this position please forward a copy of your CV to: mail@douglas-jackson.com or visit us at: http://www.douglas-jackson.com. We will acknowledge receipt of your CV and if we are able to progress your application then a consultant will be back in touch with you to discuss your application and interest in more detail.

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Douglas Jackson are a specialist recruitment consultancy and executive search company, working to hire exceptional talent for Executive, Managerial and skilled practitioner level appointments. Working in partnership with customer focused organisations, we offer a professional, trusted and quality service, to identify, attract and hire talented professionals within Operations, Strategy, Customer Experience, Intelligence, Customer Insight, Sales, Service, Planning, Data, Programmes, Change Transformation, Digital and Customer Contact.

Douglas Jackson are working as an Employment Agency in respect of this vacancy.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK and or territory/location specified. We will not be able to enter into any discussions or offer any assistance regarding sponsorship.

Head of Recruitment and Development

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Job Ref: DJMA1794
Job Title: Head of Recruitment and Development
Location: Barcelona – Relocation opportunity
Salary: Circa 50-60,000 (base plus bonus and some relocation assistance and benefits)
Job type: Permanent

We have a fabulous opportunity for an experienced Head of Recruitment to work with a fast growth performance focused contact centre operation who will be willing to relocate to Barcelona; a vibrant cosmopolitan city where nothing is far away. Working for an award-winning international organization, who strives for a reward, recognition culture, which delivers great employee engagement and customer service delivery for their customers.

You will take responsibility for the attraction and recruitment of talent, development and retention across all levels of the organisation. Working with senior stakeholders you will understand the operational plans, priorities and objectives to help create and implement talent acquisition, recruitment and L&D (Learning and Development) strategies.

Building and managing a recruitment, talent acquisition and training team, you will be responsible for and oversee attraction, resourcing, recruitment and talent development trams and lead on the overarching strategy.

You will provide strategic direction on recruitment, acquisition, talent, learning, career and leadership development to ensure the business attracts, recruits, onboards, engages and retains diverse, skilled talent, delivering excellence for all employees.

You will lead in the cultural development of the organisation to ensure demonstrable values of inclusivity, responsiveness and innovation. Driving best practice and working collaboratively to build strong partnerships and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

If you are interested in applying for this position, you will need to have proven recruitment, internal, or agency background, with team leadership experience, or, HR Generalist background, talent management and development experience, covering, attraction, recruitment, onboarding training and development, ideally within a contact centre environment. You will have excellent communication skills and stakeholder management. Able to work in an empowered fast growth operation.

To apply for this position please forward a copy of your CV to: mail@douglas-jackson.com or visit us at: http://www.douglas-jackson.com. We will acknowledge receipt of your CV and if we are able to progress your application then a consultant will be back in touch with you to discuss your application and interest in more detail.

Follow us on Twitter @callcentrejobs1

Douglas Jackson are a specialist recruitment consultancy and executive search company, working to hire exceptional talent for Executive, Managerial and skilled practitioner level appointments. Working in partnership with customer focused organisations, we offer a professional, trusted and quality service, to identify, attract and hire talented professionals within Operations, Strategy, Customer Experience, Intelligence, Customer Insight, Sales, Customer Service, Resource Planning, Data, Analytics, Programmes, Change, Transformation, Digital, Contact Centre and Customer Contact.

Douglas Jackson are working as an Employment Agency in respect of this vacancy.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK and or territory/location specified. We will not be able to enter into any discussions or offer any assistance regarding sponsorship.

Solutions & Bid Director

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Job Ref: DJHC4271
Job Title: Solutions & Bid Director
Location: UK
Salary: Up to £150k + car + bonus
Job type: Permanent

This is an opportunity for a proven senior executive in the BPO space to join an exciting well established and forward thinking organisation.

Some of the duties will include:
• Onshore/ offshore and multi channel customer solution design
• Innovation including customer experience and digital experience
• Cross functional working with Business Development, Account Management and commercial teams
• Develop solutions and manage large scale and complex bid processes
• Liaise with clients and potential clients identifying opportunities and building strong business relationships
• Delivering complex customer projects through your own team and by leveraging relationships cross functionally
• Create commercially viable and differentiated customer proposals
• Customer Experience journey mapping and improvement

If you are interested to apply for this position then you will need proven experience as a senior executive in the BPO space, building large scale customer solutions across voice, digital, and multi channel, and managing commercial and client relationships.

To apply for this position please forward a copy of your CV to: mail@douglas-jackson.com or visit us at: http://www.douglas-jackson.com. We will acknowledge receipt of your CV and if we are able to progress your application then a consultant will be back in touch with you to discuss your application and interest in more detail.

Follow us on Twitter @callcentrejobs1

Douglas Jackson are a specialist recruitment consultancy and executive search company, working to hire exceptional talent for Executive, Managerial and skilled practitioner level appointments. Working in partnership with customer focused organisations, we offer a professional, trusted and quality service, to identify, attract and hire talented professionals within Operations, Strategy, Customer Experience, Intelligence, Customer Insight, Sales, Customer Service, Resource Planning, Data, Analytics, Programmes, Change, Transformation, Digital, Contact Centre and Customer Contact.

Douglas Jackson are working as an Employment Agency in respect of this vacancy.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK and or territory/location specified. We will not be able to enter into any discussions or offer any assistance regarding sponsorship.

Resource Planning Analyst

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Job Ref: DJPF1247
Job Title: Resource Planning Analyst
Location Altrincham, Manchester, North West
Salary: £24,000 Per annum
Employment Type: Permanent

This is an exciting opportunity for a Resource Planning Analyst to join a newly created Resource Planning team. This is exciting opportunity for the right business and customer focused individual to join our team to further support our growth across all call centre teams.

Some of the Responsibilities include:
• Work with the operation teams to create and evolve department level schedules, including internal shrinkages.
• Influence and guide Team managers across the business to assist with delivery and performance through detailed analysis and reporting.
• Maximise the use of workforce management tool to ensure that effective resource plans are developed.
• Provide detailed analysis for “what if” scenarios.
• Manage the process and provide impact assessment of business changes.

If you are interested to apply:
• Experience of Contact Centre Planning and scheduling
• Must have experience of workforce management systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Advanced excel skills
• Ability to translate complex data into management information

To apply for this position please forward a copy of your CV to: mail@douglas-jackson.com or visit us at: http://www.douglas-jackson.com. We will acknowledge receipt of your CV and if we are able to progress your application then a consultant will be back in touch with you to discuss your application and interest in more detail.

Follow us on Twitter @callcentrejobs1

Douglas Jackson are a specialist recruitment consultancy and executive search company, working to hire exceptional talent for Executive, Managerial and skilled practitioner level appointments. Working in partnership with customer focused organisations, we offer a professional, trusted and quality service, to identify, attract and hire talented professionals within Operations, Strategy, Customer Experience, Intelligence, Customer Insight, Sales, Customer Service, Resource Planning, Data, Analytics, Programmes, Change, Transformation, Digital, Contact Centre and Customer Contact.

Douglas Jackson are working as an Employment Agency in respect of this vacancy.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK and or territory/location specified. We will not be able to enter into any discussions or offer any assistance regarding sponsorship.

Contact Centre Operations Manager/Team Manager

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Job Ref: DJMA1792
Job Title: Contact Centre Operations Manager/Team Manager
Location: Barcelona
Salary: Circa 30-40,000 (base bonus relocation assistance and benefits)
Job Type: Permanent

Hola……We have a fabulous opportunity for an experienced Operations Manager/Team Manager within a fast growth performance focused contact centre from the UK willing to relocate to Barcelona; a vibrant cosmopolitan city where nothing is far away. Working for an award winning international organisation, who strives for a reward, recognition culture, which delivers great employee engagement and customer service delivery for their customers.

The position will work with a large growing team of Team Leaders and Agents in an inbound sales, loyalty and customer service campaign to include team leadership, development and performance, as well as being a point of contact for the client campaign and reporting on financial and resource issues and developments. You will have responsibility for the leadership, coaching and development of the team and for achieving operational delivery, as well as the success and growth of the account. The successful candidate will also prepare and present financial reports so a good level of Excel will be required.

An overview of the role and responsibilities are below:

• Ensure that productivity, service levels and quality outcomes are consistently delivered to client’s expectations whilst maintaining a positive culture and high levels of team morale.
• Lead successfully, coach, develop, monitor and build a team or teams.
• Ability to challenge and identify better ways of working
• Report metrics to the client and offer recommendations whenever possible, in a pro-active fashion.
• Be an ambassador and act as a role model to other team members.
• Ensure that the team is focused on achieving and exceeding set targets.
• To assess and review teams and individual performance, introducing performance management and improvement measures to maintain and improve overall performance.
• To ensure that development of team members is paramount, through appropriate use of performance reviews, monthly 121s and appraisals.

If you are interested in applying for this position, you will need to have proven contact centre team management experience, have good communication skills and be able to use Excel to deliver reports and analytics. You will be able to work in a performance focussed environment and get the best from your team and stakeholders.

To apply for this position please forward a copy of your CV to: mail@douglas-jackson.com or visit us at: http://www.douglas-jackson.com. We will acknowledge receipt of your CV and if we are able to progress your application then a consultant will be back in touch with you to discuss your application and interest in more detail.

Follow us on Twitter @callcentrejobs1

Douglas Jackson are a specialist recruitment consultancy and executive search company, working to hire exceptional talent for Executive, Managerial and skilled practitioner level appointments. Working in partnership with customer focused organisations, we offer a professional, trusted and quality service, to identify, attract and hire talented professionals within Operations, Strategy, Customer Experience, Intelligence, Customer Insight, Sales, Customer Service, Resource Planning, Data, Analytics, Programmes, Change, Transformation, Digital, Contact Centre and Customer Contact.

Douglas Jackson are working as an Employment Agency in respect of this vacancy.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK and or territory/location specified. We will not be able to enter into any discussions or offer any assistance regarding sponsorship.

Continuous Improvement Manager

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Job Ref: Ref DJEM1002
Job Title: Continuous Improvement Manager
Location: Warrington / Chester
Salary: up to £66k plus bonus, private medical cover and company discount
Job Type: Permanent

This is an opportunity for a proven, process driven Customer Experience Manager to take responsibly for the end to end customer journey across a number of product and service propositions.

Working with senior stakeholders across an international, complex business you will utilise your skills to identify and analyse potential issues and opportunities, develop a customer roadmap and initiatives to deliver process improvements which create a seamless, more efficient and or streamlined customer experience.

Some of the responsibilities

• Manage and lead a team of Continuous Improvement Analysts
• Design and deliver Lean Six Sigma training to all levels of the business
• Coaching and mentoring CI Analysts
• Project management of a portfolio of Lean Six Sigma projects

If you are interested in applying for this position, you will need proven experience in delivering process improvements across customer journeys. Experience, or exposure and/or qualifications in Lean, Six Sigma and or Prince 2 methodologies will be a distinct advantage.

To apply for this position please forward a copy of your CV to: mail@douglas-jackson.com or visit us at: http://www.douglas-jackson.com. We will acknowledge receipt of your CV and if we are able to progress your application then a consultant will be back in touch with you to discuss your application and interest in more detail.

Follow us on Twitter @callcentrejobs1

Douglas Jackson are a specialist recruitment consultancy and executive search company, working to hire exceptional talent for Executive, Managerial and skilled practitioner level appointments. Working in partnership with customer focused organisations, we offer a professional, trusted and quality service, to identify, attract and hire talented professionals within Operations, Strategy, Customer Experience, Intelligence, Customer Insight, Sales, Service, Planning, Data, Programmes, Change Transformation, Digital and Customer Contact.

Douglas Jackson are working as an Employment Agency in respect of this vacancy.
All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK and or territory/location specified. We will not be able to enter into any discussions or offer any assistance regarding sponsorship.