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The Global Contact and Capacity Management Team (GCCM) team is responsible for maintaining, revising, and enhancing Global Servicing Group (GSG), GCFNI, Credit, Fraud, New Accounts, Underwriting and Merchant Risk capacity planning forecasts (comprised of multiple complex parts including Volume, Productivity, Staffing, and Workforce Management).

The GCCM team owns the development and implementation of workforce and standard operating procedures, across all GSN call center locations while supporting consistency and alignment of floor management standard operating procedures across the network. This team partners across the enterprise including working closely with: Global Operations teams, American Express Technologies, Global Learning & Knowledge Management, GCN Strategy and Support.

How will you make an impact in this role?

·       This role requires an individual to oversee capacity planning and staffing recommendations for CFN – KYC Team.

·       Ensuring that CFN KYC Teams has an effective capacity framework to manage the workload which is distributed in BAU and remediation case work.

·       Analyze current planning structure within GCCM and seek to Standardize, Scale-up and globalize it through automation and self-service functionalities.

·       Perform deep dive analyses and provide recommendations/insights to senior leadership.

·       Provide proactive feedbacks to increase and robustness’s the planning & analytics ecosystem.

·       Develop, implement, and maintain policies and procedure relating to continued improvement in unit cost associated with staffing components of the contact center.

·       Will simulate the impact of proposed initiatives and confidently recommend the appropriate staffing actions for each business unit. 

·       Implement best-practices across all WFM functional areas including Capacity Planning, Forecasting, Scheduling, Real-Time Management, and attendance policy development.

·       Collaborate with Contact Center Management on all aspects of call center performance and productivity.         

·       Research and recommend process improvement solutions, ensure efficiency and currency of the established procedures to achieve optimum performance levels for the Call Center Operations

·       Ultimate accountability for achieving designated answer rates, and occupancy goals at a monthly, weekly, daily, and intraday level for multiple queues.

Minimum Qualifications

·       Excellent communication & collaboration skills; ability to build relationships, influence decisions, and to inspire matrixed, cross-functional teams to deliver on shared objectives.

·       Strong attention to Detail and Accuracy of Data

·       Confidence in decision-making in complex & ambiguous situations; comfortable troubleshooting + aligning conflicting interests in a professional outcome-focused manner.

·       Strong desire to learn and develop both technical and management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

·       At least 4-6 years of Experience in Capacity planning/WFM Reporting/Business analysis

·       Experience in process optimisation in a data driven environment.

·       Advanced Excel knowledge

·       Tableau experience

·       SQL and/or Python experience

·       Understanding of Cornerstone and Amex data environment

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

Competitive base salaries  Bonus incentives  Support for financial-well-being and retirement  Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)  Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need  Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)  Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)  Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program  Career development and training opportunities

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.  

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.