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Workforce Manager, Customer Success REMOTE

Sonova

Chicago, Illinois

Job description

Overview

As Workforce Manager for Customer Success, you drive forecasting, capacity planning, scheduling and real-time control to optimize our workforce. You will own Calabrio Workforce Management as the platform expert, translating demand into staffing actions and measurable performance insights. You collaborate with cross-functional partners to align staffing with product launches and business events, ensuring data-driven decisions across the customer journey. This role offers impact through scalable processes and dashboards that leaders rely on for timely, evidence-based decisions.

Compensation / Benefits
  • Medical, dental and vision
  • 401(k) with company match
  • PTO
  • Parental bonding leave
  • EAP and mental health support
  • Tuition reimbursement
Responsibilities
  • Forecast contact volume (short- to long-range) and convert into staffing and capacity needs
  • Build and maintain employee schedules in Calabrio WFM, balancing demand, service levels, and offline activities
  • Maintain rolling workforce plan and identify gaps, excess capacity, and hiring needs
  • Lead real-time and intraday WFM, monitoring volume, staffing, service levels, and adherence
  • Track forecast accuracy, staffing metrics, occupancy, shrinkage and utilization
  • Develop workforce dashboards and recurring reports for leadership insights
  • Conduct variance/root-cause analyses and recommend efficiency improvements
  • Serve as Calabrio WFM owner, including forecasting, scheduling, reporting, configuration and optimization
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to incorporate events and demand into planning
  • Ensure data quality across Calabrio and related systems, resolving discrepancies
  • Provide data-driven staffing and operating recommendations
  • Establish workforce-management processes, standards and reporting cadences
Key requirements
  • Five+ years in progressive workforce-management within contact center or customer service
  • Hands-on forecasting, capacity planning, scheduling and real-time WFM experience
  • Proficiency with Calabrio Workforce Management (advanced use, admin or implementation preferred)
  • Strong knowledge of contact-center metrics (forecast accuracy, service level, ASA, abandonment, AHT, adherence, occupancy, shrinkage, utilization)
  • Strong analytical skills to translate data into actionable insights
  • Excellent written and verbal communication for operational and senior leadership audiences
  • Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and resolving escalations without direct authority
  • Advanced Excel; plus Power BI, Tableau, SQL or similar tools a plus
  • Experience with Webex Contact Center or another CCaaS platform preferred
  • Willingness to travel
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • clear communication
  • problem-solving
  • Calabrio Workforce Management
  • Excel (advanced)
  • Power BI

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