Advanced Specialist - BPO Management

August 13, 2026

Job Title: Advanced Specialist - BPO ManagementAs an Advanced Specialist - BPO Management, you will bridge the gap between financial forecasting and daily operations, ensuring the organization is staffed effectively to meet customer demand. This role is highly collaborative, requiring close partnership not only with internal Finance, Operations, and Workforce Management (WFM) teams, but also with WFM counterparts at third-party service providers (BPO partners).You will analyze historical data, forecast staffing needs, and build long-term hiring and vendor capacity models to ensure service level agreements (SLAs) are consistently met while optimizing both internal and outsourced labor costs. A critical component of this role is ensuring alignment, accountability, and transparency with external WFM teams to deliver a seamless customer experience across all delivery channels.<div style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: initial; border-style: none; border-width: medium; padding: 0in;">This role is also known as Contact Center Capacity Planner.</div>Key ResponsibilitiesStrategic Forecasting & Vendor Alignment<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Analyze seasonal trends, historical contact volumes, and business growth drivers to forecast multi-channel demand and capacity requirements over 12–18 month horizons.</li><li>Incorporate third-party (BPO) capacity assumptions, contractual commitments, and ramp timelines into long-term forecasts.</li><li>Collaborate with vendor WFM teams to validate forecast inputs, challenge assumptions, and ensure alignment on workload distribution across internal and outsourced teams.</li></ul><div style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: initial; border-style: none; border-width: medium; padding: 0in;"> </div>Budget Optimization & Vendor Strategy<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Partner with Finance, Operations, and Procurement to align hiring and vendor strategies with budgetary targets.</li><li>Evaluate and optimize the balance between in-house staffing and outsourced capacity, identifying opportunities to reduce overtime, minimize vendor overages, and improve cost efficiency.</li><li>Provide recommendations on vendor utilization, ramp-up/down strategies, and contract efficiency based on forecasted demand.</li></ul><div style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: initial; border-style: none; border-width: medium; padding: 0in;"> </div>Integrated Workforce Planning (Internal + Third-Party)<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Work closely with internal WFM and third-party WFM teams to translate long-term capacity plans into actionable hiring, scheduling, and vendor staffing strategies.</li><li>Ensure consistent planning methodologies, assumptions, and KPIs are used across internal and outsourced teams.</li><li>Facilitate regular planning cadences (weekly/monthly) with vendor partners to review staffing plans, forecast accuracy, and capacity risks.</li></ul><div style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: initial; border-style: none; border-width: medium; padding: 0in;"> </div>Service Level & Performance Management<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Monitor service levels, shrinkage (absenteeism, training, breaks), occupancy, and adherence across both internal and vendor operations.</li><li>Partner with vendor WFM teams to identify performance gaps and implement corrective actions.</li><li>Ensure third-party teams are operating within defined SLAs, contractual obligations, and productivity targets.</li></ul><div style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: initial; border-style: none; border-width: medium; padding: 0in;"> </div>Scenario Modeling & Risk Mitigation<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Develop “what-if” models to evaluate the operational and financial impact of new product launches, marketing campaigns, seasonality, or unexpected volume spikes.</li><li>Include vendor scalability constraints, geographic distribution, and ramp timelines in scenario planning.</li><li>Proactively identify risks related to vendor capacity, attrition, or delivery challenges, and propose mitigation strategies.</li></ul><div style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: initial; border-style: none; border-width: medium; padding: 0in;"> </div>Vendor Collaboration & Governance<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Establish strong working relationships with third-party WFM leaders and analysts, acting as the primary liaison for planning and forecasting alignment.</li><li>Lead recurring governance meetings with vendors to review:<ul style="list-style-type: circle;"><li>Forecast accuracy</li><li>Staffing plans and hiring progress</li><li>SLA performance</li><li>Capacity risks and mitigation plans</li></ul></li><li>Drive continuous improvement initiatives with vendor partners to enhance forecasting accuracy, scheduling efficiency, and reporting consistency.</li></ul><div style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: initial; border-style: none; border-width: medium; padding: 0in;"> </div>Reporting & Insights<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Develop and maintain dashboards and executive-level reporting that provide visibility into:<ul style="list-style-type: circle;"><li>Capacity gaps (internal vs vendor)</li><li>Hiring pipelines and vendor ramp progress</li><li>Forecast accuracy and variance analysis</li><li>Cost and efficiency metrics</li></ul></li><li>Deliver clear, actionable insights to senior leadership to support data-driven decisions on workforce and vendor strategy.</li></ul><div style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: initial; border-style: none; border-width: medium; padding: 0in;"> </div>Qualifications & SkillsExperience<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>3–5 years in call center operations, workforce management, capacity planning, or forecasting.</li><li>Experience working with third-party service providers (BPOs) and collaborating with external WFM teams is strongly preferred.</li></ul><div style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: initial; border-style: none; border-width: medium; padding: 0in;"> </div>Technical Expertise<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Advanced proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, macros, financial and capacity models).</li><li>Hands-on experience with WFM platforms (e.g., NICE, Genesys, Verint), including environments that integrate vendor operations.</li><li>Experience building multi-site / multi-vendor capacity models and forecast scenarios.</li></ul><div style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: initial; border-style: none; border-width: medium; padding: 0in;"> </div>Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Strong ability to translate complex datasets into clear workforce strategies across internal and outsourced environments.</li><li>Skilled in identifying trends, risks, and optimization opportunities in both cost and performance.</li></ul><div style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: initial; border-style: none; border-width: medium; padding: 0in;"> </div>Communication & Stakeholder Management<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Proven ability to collaborate across multiple stakeholder groups, including senior leadership and external vendor partners.</li><li>Strong influencing skills to drive alignment and accountability in cross-organizational and third-party environments.</li><li>Ability to present complex analyses in a clear, concise, and actionable manner.</li></ul> #LI-JJ1

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