Workforce Management - Senior Associate Manager - Real Time (Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Gurgaon, Pune Based - Relocation Provided)

About Agoda

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world.

Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.

No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.

About Agoda

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodation, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting edge technology that connects travelers with more than 2.5 million accommodations globally. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 4,000+ talents coming from 90+ different nationalities foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enabling our customers to experience the world.

Get to Know our Team:

The Customer Experience Group of Agoda effectively serves our customers and partners to ensure satisfying results. This great task is accomplished with the support of our Global Service Vertical team. We serve as the backbone for Customer Experience Group’s global operations. Our team is comprised of project managers, process owners, analysts, and talent management. Together we work nonstop to improve the quality and efficiency of our customer and partner support processes. Working with the Global Service Vertical team is a great opportunity to collaborate with various stakeholders and develop initiatives with our sister companies and external partners all over the world. We are a very data-driven environment, eager to move fast and learn through experimentation. A clear focus on supporting our customers and partners is bolstered by a strong, entrepreneurial culture that enriches us and Agoda’s business performance.

The Opportunity:

The Senior Associate WFM Manager is a people leader in role, responsible for leading a WFM team, enabling them to be successful and delivering against the prescribed KPIs.

The Manager enables their team and team members by providing coaching and feedback, building strong professional relationships, maintaining a regular flow of communication, and providing direction, support, and development.

The Manager also contributes to the overall WFM performance and culture, collaborating with peers and broader colleagues to ensure WFM delivers to the company and CEG objectives.

The Senior Associate WFM Manager is expected to be an SME in Workforce Management, having a good knowledge of WFM concepts, to support the team with challenges and capability and to adequately represent WFM, to senior stakeholders.

ACTIVITIES PERFORMED ON THE JOB:

Coaching and giving feedback:

Coaching and providing feedback within WFM (usually one-on-one) constructively and creatively, to enable colleagues to perform at their best.

Review performance of individuals and team using performance reports/dashboards, observations, buddying, and reviewing system audit reports.

Manage all underperformance, using the Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) process where appropriate.

People leadership:

Build healthy and professional relationships with team members.

Establish and nurture a culture of performance excellence, open feedback, collaboration, recognition, and quality delivery of outcomes.

Organize team building activities that will engage people in teamwork and create a positive work environment.

Ensure the team is well supported to perform their day-to-day activities, including:

ensuring appropriate real-time support is available, taking and managing escalated issues.

Providing approvals as part of the business process (e.g. absorption).

Ensure team schedule is maintained to a high standard to provide stakeholder support and manage team requests and unplanned absence, in line with process.

Provide clarity on performance vs targets, and any other team or group objectives.

Use reward and recognition as part of motivating the team.

Conduct team meetings: sharing important information, updates, performance progress, and broader company updates.

Ensure your team is connected to the company's WFM objectives and strategy.

Be an example to the team through behavior, living up to the Agoda values and behavior standards expected of people leaders.

Collaborate with other departments, working together to enable overall success (e.g. WFM teams, CEG Operations Teams, CEG Teach Team).

Reporting & data analysis:

Work with data from various sources to analyze and observe performance of CEG SLAs and gain insights as a basis for feedback and change suggestions.

Prepare and present team performance data, challenges, issues, ideas, and opportunities.

Collaboration:

Collaborate with local WFM team:

On team performance: providing updates about the team, traffic, projects, concerns, challenges, and opportunities.

Participate actively in leadership meetings: share what works well for you, provide feedback and input on decisions or updates, and be open and constructive about what is not working well and how the group can improve.

Stay up to date with products, news, goals, decisions, projects.

Collaborate with other teams:

CEG Operations Leadership and Management.

CEG GSV.

Personal Management:

Remain up to date with important company/team/department updates, requirements.

Act in the best interests of the organization: ensuring that we operate with absolute integrity and compliance with all legal obligations or compliance requirements.

Be an active and constructive Agoda team member: Always being respectful to others and seeking to be better together.

Aim to understand, then meet and exceed the expectations agreed with your manager.

EXPECTATIONS - BEHAVIORS AND VALUES

Behavior

Definition

Continuous improvement

• Regularly identify improvement opportunities, quantify them, and follow through to measurable/demonstratable outcomes. Embraces both successes and failures to learn and maximize the benefits.
• Embraces and drives change, is open and supportive of improvement opportunities identified by others.

Deliver better together

• Collaborates and engages with colleagues and broader Agoda teams to share ideas and learn and work together toward shared ambitions.
• Is respectful to colleagues, open to different perspectives /viewpoints, and positively contributes to discussions.

Enable others` success

• Is committed to building and nurturing a culture of frequent feedback, coaching and career development.
• Provides clarity on accountability, goals, and progress.
• Regularly takes the opportunity to connect and align teams and team members to the Agoda/CEG strategy, making these relevant and digestible.

COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

Technical Skills

Must have hands-on experience configuring and optimizing contact-center routing across voice, messaging, and email channels, along with workforce management experience leading real-time operations.

Analytical Ability & Problem Solving

Can visualise, articulate, conceptualise, or solve both complex and uncomplicated problems using the data available.

Decision making ability

Set a course of action purposely chosen from different alternatives to achieve company objectives.

Effective communication (Verbal and written)

Delivers, receives, and interprets ideas and information, presents information appropriately to a diverse range of audiences, and influences partner decisions Excel/Power Point Skills

Flexibility and Agility

Can adjust behavior to new