The incumbent is responsible for the daily oversight of all projects involving natural language process of data in several languages. Overall performance and governance of the Statements of Work with clients and establishing scalable processes. Responsible for managing client to enable expansion due to great quality and customer care.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop the skills of Project managers in project execution, and client facing responsibilities.
Develop a high-caliber team by recruiting, selecting, onboarding, training, and coaching employees; effectively communicate job expectations; plan, monitor, appraise, and review direct report performance; plan and review compensation.
Determine Service Delivery strategic plan to enable rapid scale evolution of work verticals; alignment of training with worker skill levels; ROI analysis on pursuing ISO or other certifications; and positioning of the Center relative to competitive landscape.
Monitor and evaluate performance based upon financial, operational, and impact KPIs. Leads team to rapidly fix any service delivery shortcomings, using data analysis, root cause analysis, developing plans, communicating and collaborating with the client.
Be a regular presence on the production floor and actively interact with managers, supervisors and agents to ensure productive engagement and proper functioning of systems.
Meet Service Delivery financial and impact targets by supporting the preparation of annual budgets; forecasting expenditures; taking ownership of variances; and complying with Sama recruitment and compensation practices.
Test and refine new operational strategies that support efficiency, scale, and best-in-class BPO processes and share learnings with key Sama stakeholders.
Maintain professional and technical knowledge by tracking emerging trends in data Center management; NLP management and media management ,
Ensure alignment and execution of agent training with business needs, including providing ongoing feedback to Samaschool on baseline training requirements; and working with operations to develop and tracking worker skill-sets and skill levels in order to execute sales pipeline.
Provide leadership and expert advice on service delivery issues, planning, service development approaches and create best-practice service delivery goals to meet client needs, standards and measures of success to ensure expectations are clear and that service delivery strategies are well aligned to overall Agency objectives
Meet a variety of Client needs and manage escalations through coaching and leading Project managers.
Drive and oversee financial, human, physical and intellectual capital/resources and their interdependencies in an operationally effective and efficient manner to better facilitate service delivery and optimise outcomes
Provide high quality service strategy advice to executive leadership to effectively inform strategic planning processes
Develop and execute robust service delivery governance and risk frameworks to identify, manage and minimise financial, reputational and service delivery risks
Monitor and evaluate service delivery processes and outcomes to ensure service delivery is efficient and cost effective and to action necessary improvements as required
Minimum Qualifications:
8+ years of experience in operations, preferably in technology industry
5+ years of people management experience, including managing leaders of leaders and a strong desire to develop team members
Proven experience successfully managing global stakeholders and Projects.
Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications:
Dynamic leader with experience and passion for managing large and multilanguage teams across multiple sites in a fast-paced environment, able to deal with rapid change and ambiguity
Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Empathy for the client community and passion to create an exceptional experience and provide outstanding support
Excited to be part of a global operations teams, design effective business operations, tackle complex problems, and develop individual team members
Adaptable and energized by a fast-paced environment
Application deadline is March 26, 2021. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
About Sama:
25% of the Fortune 50 trust Sama to deliver secure, high-quality training data and validation for the technology teams driving humanity forward. From self-driving cars to smart hardware, Sama fuels AI. Founded over a decade ago, we’re experts in image, video and sensor data annotation and validation for machine learning algorithms in industries including automotive, navigation, AR/VR, biotech, agriculture, manufacturing, and e-commerce. Our staff are driven by a mission to expand opportunity for low-income people through the digital economy, and our social business model has helped lift over 50,000 people out of poverty.
Our Culture:
Sama is quite unique. We are a technology company with a social mission. People that thrive in a high growth environment, love working on the bleeding edge of technology, and really care about having a positive impact on the world are a great fit for the Sama culture. Our core values are grit, integrity, humanity, and GTD (Get Things Done).
Our Benefits:
Sama offers competitive compensation commensurate with experience and a full benefits package, including: medical, pension scheme, annual leave, paid disability insurance, and professional development opportunities
At Sama, we pride ourselves in being a diverse and equal opportunity employer.
