Description & Requirements
Standardized Operations & Analytics (SOA) and Workforce Management and Optimization (WMO) combines Workforce Optimization (long-term forecasting and capacity planning) with Workforce Management (short-term forecasting, scheduling, and real-time monitoring) to provide our projects with the operational insights and recommendations needed to achieve both internal and contractual goals throughout the contract lifecycle.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain accurate forecasts to predict staff need under a variety of intake volumes, and conditions using data/statistical analysis, simulation modeling and other mathematical methods.
- Mentor, train, and provide guidance, background information, and assistance to managers, analysts and other staff on standards and best practices in the following areas: business and operational analysis, and interpretation and effective use of process performance data, presentation objects and other analysis artifacts.
- Review forecasting accuracy (forecasts to actuals) and schedule effectiveness (staff paid/ staff need/ staff scheduled/staff available) with WFM staff and work together to reduce variations in order to ensure performance and productivity goals are met.
- Develop operational production plans to efficiently allocate staff resources against workload.
- Analyze data and other information in order to conceptualize and define operational problems and/or improvement opportunities.
- Plan and execute analysis – often interrogating data and other information to perform root cause analysis and develop an impact assessment.
- Establish daily, weekly and monthly metrics and monitor performance against metrics and ensure meaningful deviation is detected early and incorporated in operation planning efforts.
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5-7 years of experience
- Experience with conducting and interpreting mathematical or statistical studies.
- Exceptional proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, specifically Excel.
- Ability to define data requirements, gather and validate data and other information, and apply judgement to statistical tests.
