WFM Real-Time Manager

<p><strong>About Agoda </strong></p> <p>Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with more than 2.5 million accommodations globally. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 6,000+ employees representing 90+ nationalities foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.</p><p><strong>This role will be based in Bangkok, Thailand </strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Get to Know our Team:</strong></p> <p>The Customer Experience Group of Agoda effectively serves our customers and partners to ensure satisfying results. This great task is accomplished with the support of our Global Service Vertical team. We serve as the backbone for Customer Experience Group’s global operations. Our team is comprised of project managers, process owners, analysts, and talent management. Together we work nonstop to improve the quality and efficiency of our customer and partner support processes. Working with the Global Service Vertical team is a great opportunity to collaborate with various stakeholders and develop initiatives with our sister companies and external partners all over the world. We are a very data-driven environment, eager to move fast and learn through experimentation. A clear focus on supporting our customers and partners is bolstered by a strong, entrepreneurial culture that enriches us and Agoda’s business performance.</p> <p><strong>The Opportunity:</strong></p> <p>The WFM Manager is a people leader role, responsible for the leadership of a team of WFM Capacity and/or Schedule Planners, enabling them to be successful and delivering against the prescribed KPIs.</p> <p>The Manager enables their team and team members by providing coaching and feedback, building strong professional relationships, maintaining a regular flow of communication, and providing encouragement, support, and development.<br/>The Manager also contributes to the overall WFM performance and culture, collaborating with peers and broader colleagues to ensure WFM delivers to the company and CEG objectives.</p> <p>The WFM Manager is expected to have a good knowledge of WFM concepts, to support the team with challenges and capability and to adequately represent WFM, to senior stakeholders.</p> <p><strong>Activities Performed on the job:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Coaching and giving feedback</strong></li> <ul> <li>Coaching and providing feedback to WFM (usually one-on-one) constructively and creatively to enable them to perform at their best.</li> <li>Review performance with Capacity and Scheduling Planners and team using performance reports/dashboards, observations, buddying and reviewing system audit reports.</li> <li>Manage any underperformance, using the Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) process where appropriate.</li> </ul> <li><strong>People leadership</strong></li> <ul> <li>Build healthy and professional relationships with team members establish and nurture a culture of open feedback, collaboration, encouragement, recognition, and delivery to high standards</li> <li>Organize team building activities that will engage people into teamwork and create positive work environment</li> <li>Ensure the team is well supported to perform their day-to-day activities, including:</li> <ul> <li>ensuring appropriate real-time support is available taking and managing escalated issues</li> <li>providing approvals as part of business process (e.g. absorption)</li> <li>Ensure team schedule is maintained to a high standard to provide stakeholder support and manage team requests and unplanned absence, in line with process.</li> </ul> <li>Provide clarity on performance vs targets, and any other team or group objectives,</li> <li>Use reward &amp; recognition as part of motivating the team</li> <li>Conduct team meetings: sharing important information, updates, performance progress and broader company updates.</li> <li>Ensure your team is connected to the company and WFM objectives and strategy</li> <li>Be an example to the team through behavior, living up to the Agoda values and behavior standards expected of people leaders</li> <li>Collaborate with other departments, working together to enable overall success (e.g. WFM teams, CEG Operations Teams, CEG Teach Team).</li> </ul> <li><strong>Reporting &amp; data analysis</strong></li> <ul> <li>Work with data from various sources to analyze and observe performance of CEG SLAs and gain insights as basis for feedback and change suggestions.</li> <li>Prepare and present team performance data, challenges, and issues, ideas, and opportunities</li> </ul> <li><strong>Collaboration</strong></li> <ul> <li>Collaborate with local WFM team:</li> <ul> <li>On team performance: providing updates about the team, traffic, projects, concerns, challenges, and opportunities</