Director Quality, Training & Process
IHGAbout the role
The Director of Quality, Training, and Process Improvement serves as a strategic leader responsible for elevating organizational performance by integrating AI-driven technologies with comprehensive learning and quality assurance frameworks. This role orchestrates cross-functional initiatives by partnering with Operations, Technology, and multiple departmental stakeholders to simplify, standardize, and automate complex workflows.
As a primary advisor to executive leadership, the Director translates performance trends and AI-driven insights into strategic investment priorities to ensure all initiatives deliver a measurable return on investment. Ultimately, the position bridges the gap between high-level strategy and daily operations, fostering a culture of accountability and innovation that aligns operational outputs with core business KPIs.
Your Day-to-Day
Training Design & Delivery:
- Own the learning and performance strategy across onboarding, upskilling, and continuous development.
- Design and deliver blended learning experiences (instructor-led, virtual, self-directed, microlearning, simulations, AI role-play).
- Embed AI-enabled learning tools (call simulations, automated feedback, adaptive learning paths).
- Ensure training is tightly aligned to real performance data, QA trends, and business KPIs.
- Establish clear certification, readiness, and proficiency standards.
Contact Center Quality Assurance (AI-Enabled):
- Lead the QA strategy, including scorecards, calibrations, audits, and compliance governance.
- Implement and optimize automated QA analytics (speech/text analytics, sentiment analysis, keyword detection, compliance flags).
- Reduce reliance on manual sampling by leveraging 100% call coverage and AI-driven insights.
- Translate QA insights into targeted coaching, training updates, and process improvements.
- Ensure QA outputs are actionable, timely, and trusted by frontline leaders.
AI-Driven Performance Improvement & Real-Time Agent Support:
- Deploy and manage real-time agent assist tools (live prompts, objection handling, compliance reminders, next-best-action guidance).
- Use AI insights to identify leading indicators of performance risk or opportunity.
- Partner with Operations and Technology teams to ensure AI tools augment—not replace—human coaching.
- Continuously evaluate AI effectiveness and adjust models, prompts, and workflows to improve outcomes.
- Champion ethical, transparent, and compliant use of AI across training and QA.
Process Improvement:
- Identify inefficiencies through QA trends, AI analytics, and operational data.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives to simplify, standardize, and automate workflows.
- Ensure process changes are documented, trained, reinforced, and measured.
- Establish continuous improvement routines grounded in root-cause analysis and data validation.
Leadership & Strategy:
- Lead and develop teams across Training, QA, and Learning Operations.
- Define and report on ROI metrics for training, QA and process improvements.
- Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on performance trends and investment priorities.
- Build a culture of learning, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
What We Need from You
Bachelor or Master degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work related experience.
8-12+ years progressive work related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines/technologies/processes related to the position.
Technical Skill & Knowledge
- Considerable knowledge of call center operations, Learning & Development, Quality Assurance, and Performance Enablement.
- Strong understanding of adult learning, c
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