Summary
This position will be located at either the Phoenix/Tempe metro area or East Hanover, NJ site locations and will not have the ability to be located remotely. This position will require minimal travel as defined by the business. Please note that this role would not provide relocation and only local candidates will be considered.
About the Role
As an individual contributor role, the Analyst will be responsible for meeting their monthly performance measurements and delivering on their assigned responsibilities. The Analyst is responsible for forecasting volumes in assigned queues, creating associate schedules based on those forecasts, plotting associates into those schedules, onboarding, and off boarding of associates from WFM and applicable systems, overseeing time off tracking and attendance adherence, and performing analysis whenever services levels are at risk.
Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Forecasting intra-day volumes and revising forecasts when actuals do not meet forecasts.
- Ensuring that associates are scheduled properly and that the schedules are being adhered to, including the management of breaks and trainings.
- Closely monitoring support queues for any demand increases and take action to address any service level risks.
- Providing clear root cause analysis of any service level misses
- Onboarding new associates into PSC workforce systems
- Offboarding former associates from PSC workforce systems
- Monitoring attendance and the PTO system to ensure proper staffing levels to plan in any given hour.
- Oversee holiday schedule management.
- Provide information to program management leadership on agent productivity and adherence.
- Identify opportunities for innovative automation, workload balancing, queue management, and process changes to increase predictability of the PSC’s ability to meet objectives and goals.
What you’ll bring to the role:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Required Experience:
- 1-2 years of direct experience in contact center workforce management, specifically, experience in scheduling, skilling, and vacation management.
- 1-2 years of direct experience working with WFM platforms (Verint, IEX, Genesys WFM, etc.), specifically, forecasting in a workforce tool and analyzing call statistics and designing reports
- 1-2 years of direct experience working with ACD platforms (Avaya, Five9, Genesys, etc.)
- Demonstrated analytical, planning, and communication skills.
Desired Experience:
- Possess thorough understanding of Contact Center operational activities such as customer support on phone, email, and chat channels in addition to deferred workload capacity planning.
- Direct experience working with CRM platforms (Salesforce)
- Direct experience working in a multi-channel, multi-queue, and multi-site contact center.
- Experience working in a pharmaceutical or healthcare vendor contact center.
The salary for this position is expected to range between $81,200 and $150,800 per year.
The final salary offered is determined based on factors like, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience, and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors.
Your compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and, depending on the level of the role, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards.
US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits. In addition, employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation, personal days,
holidays and other leaves.
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EEO Statement:
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