Workforce Manager, Command Center
About The Opportunity
Grubhub is looking for a highly collaborative, data-driven Manager to join our Workforce Management team. The Workforce Management team is focused on Call Center Operations - we surface insights that drive productivity and performance across the organization. In this role, you will be responsible for meeting service objectives, and initiating proactive and appropriate action around opportunities in staffing, planning, and command functions through a real-time lens. You will ensure that communication, and team engagement are priorities. Exceptional decision making and initiation skills are essential. You will be guiding analyst priorities and development; understanding the 'who, what, and whys' of our business. Working cross-functionally is fundamental as you support the team digging into trends, and surface opportunities that create impact and value. To succeed in this role, you must be innately curious, deeply analytical, highly driven and a strong communicator.
The Impact You Will Make
Teamwork
- Works successfully in a team environment creating effective relationships with business stakeholders
- Resolves team conflict and executes strategies to meet team performance expectations
- Responsible for career development for direct reports
- Understands team impact on other business operations and influences results
- Partners with analysts to ensure optimization of WFM plan
- Shares accountability when delegating
- Ensures staff have the skills and resources to get things done successfully
- Drives proactive communication, analysis and data engagement; making recommendations to improve results
Workforce Optimization
- Analyzes and evaluates workforce metrics to improve human resource efficiency maximizing labor utilization rates.
- Collaborates to proactively meet SLA's based on contact volumes, handle times, and staffing requirements for multiple departments within the Grubhub Care organization
- Acts as a subject matter expert in WFM driving a rigorously analytical approach to digesting and communicating performance trends
- Demonstrates critical thinking skills while considering the big pictures and impact on results.
Leadership & Partnership
- Leads a team of WFM Command Center Analysts and Sr. Analysts
- Acts as knowledge leader assisting to create synergy between short term planning and command efforts
- Acts in conjunction with other WFM leaders as WFM point of contact for the organization
- Partners with Reporting & Analytics to create digestible summaries and business insight for Care leadership
- Collaborates to ensure the plan is met and that command center is well positioned to provide WFM guidance to both in house and outsourced operations teams
- Partners with departments that cross-functionally influence Care (Marketing, Product, Finance, Talent Acquisition, etc.)
- Proactively communicates deficiencies and plans to resolve
What You Bring to the Table
- Bachelor's Degree preferred
- 5+ years experience or equivalent relevant industry and technological experience in workforce management
- 3+ years of formal management / team leadership experience required
- Excellent Excel skills and data analysis acumen
- Able to draw accurate conclusions from raw data, and provide suggestions to address gaps
- Continuous improvement mindset including the ability to skillfully manage change
- Demonstrates professionalism, tact, and a strong sense of urgency
- Able to independently problem solve, plan and organize resources; calculated decision-maker
- Exercises initiative; highly self-motivated and driven by a fast-paced environment
- Ability to network, and build effective relationships across organizations collaborating with senior leaders on key initiatives
- Leads and oversees individual team function (command center)
And Of Course, Perks!
- Flexible PTO. Grubhub employees are provided a generous amount of time to recharge their batteries.
- Health and Wellness. We provide programs that support your overall well-being such as generous medical benefits, employee network groups, company-wide fitness challenges, and a comfortable and casual workplace! We also support our parents by offering 8 weeks of paid parent bonding time, a 4-week returnship program, and 6-8 weeks paid medical leave.
- Learning and Career Growth. Your personal and professional development is a priority at Grubhub. From day one, we empower you to lead and be an active participant in your career growth. We provide continuous learning opportunities, training, and coaching and mentorship programs.
- MealPerks. Who's ready for some lunch? We provide our employees with a weekly Grubhub credit to enjoy and support local restaurants. We also offer company-wide meals several times a year to bring our Grubhub family together.
- Fun. Every Grubhub office has an employee-led Culture Crew that connects people through fun, meaningful events and initiatives. Some of our popular past events include: Wing-eating contests, Grubtoberfest, 5k Runs, Bring Your Child to Work Day, regular happy hours, and more!
- Social Impact. We believe in the importance of serving the communities that support our business. In addition, employees are given paid time off each year to support the causes that are important to them.
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