Workforce Planning Manager

  • Full-time
  • Department: Support

Company Description

Wolt is a technology company that makes it incredibly easy to discover and get the best restaurants, grocery stores and other local shops delivered to your home or office. Since launching 7 years ago, Wolt has expanded from a restaurant food delivery platform in the Nordics to a leading player in the delivery of everything across EMEA. Wolt works together with tens of thousands of restaurant and retail partners, as well as with over a hundred thousand courier partners across 23 countries and 250+ cities. In November 2021 Wolt and DoorDash announced they are joining forces, and the transaction is expected to close in H1 2022. We continue to expand rapidly and are looking for more talented individuals to join us.

Wolt not only offers great apps to customers and partners, but is also developing a broad range of technologies and solutions. Our apps (iOS and Android) have the industry’s highest reviews, largely because of our customer-centric approach to how we build our products and operations. For example, our customer service team responds in a matter of minutes, in the customer’s own language.  

So, why work at Wolt?

At Wolt, we’re about getting things done.

You’ll probably enjoy it here if you like taking ownership, developing yourself and being around friendly, humble and ambitious people.

We work hard to make cities into better places, and it’s pretty cool seeing us grow every week. If you’re passionate about building things that just… work, Wolt might be for you.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We want to have all sorts of people in our team – people like you and me, and people different from you and me. To be able to work with diverse teammates – when it comes to gender, age, ethnicity, life background, sexual orientation, political views, religion, or any other personal trait – we consciously aim to offer equal opportunity for everyone to work with us. This is because we believe diverse teams make the most thought-through decisions and build things in the most inclusive way.

Join us today to build Wolt together.

Job Description

Are you an experienced workforce professional with leadership experience and a passion for delivering exceptional service? Does designing and launching plans to increase staffing efficiency within one of Europe’s fastest-growing tech companies sound like your next adventure? If so, then we’d love to chat!

As our Workforce Planning Manager, you will provide overall guidance and act as a business partner to different leaders with anything and everything related to WFM. You must have hands-on experience with all facets of WFM and not be afraid to help build the team from the ground up. Act as our subject matter expert and be creative and resourceful to find solutions to arising challenges. YOu are open for travel and be assigned to a different location on a temporary basis. 

What you’ll be doing

  • Contact Center Workforce Architect / Engineer: Identifies, configures and develops forecasting, resources and shift planning tools and collaborates with customer support utilization managers to effectively implement these tools: 
    • Lead planning and execution of SLAs, capacity, and workflow plans for multiple functional areas in multiple sites.
    • Define metrics, goals, and strategic direction across functional area(s) in support of overall group vision.
    • Manage the Capacity Planning and Forecasting teams to determine location requirements by analyzing forecasting planning factors, including service levels, contact volume, contact patterns, staffing capacity, staffing, staff productivity, workforce management systems, workflow, etc.
    • Workforce Analyst: Monitors forecasting effectiveness and accuracy based on performance and constantly improves tools and practices 
  • Cross Functional project Manager: Serves as the company’s WFM subject manager expert and works alongside internal stakeholders to drive forward WFM efficiencies
    • Influence key stakeholders to ensure that resources needed are prioritized to achieve quantifiable results, monitoring the effectiveness after project delivery.
    • Organize team structure for multiple functional areas to ensure scalability for present and future volume needs.
    • Define strategies involving production and workforce management; evaluating improvement options.
    • Create escalation mechanisms where all major issues were informed to site leaders and senior leadership ensuring the right people know of the incident at the right time.
    • Develop mechanisms to quickly on-board new talent to the organization.

Qualifications

  • At least 5 years of end to end Workforce Management experience
  • At least 3 years of handling a team, physically, remotely and/or on a hybrid set up
  • Understanding of erlang model and manual WFM functions
  • Track record of launching and implementing projects
  • Experienced with eWFM, Verint, Nice, and other WFM systems on an administrator capacity
  • Global exposure on supporting a business
  • Ability to explain WFM to all levels of the organization
  • Excellent in google sheets or excel and building templates from scratch

Additional Information

If you are creative, like moving fast, and thrive in a dynamic environment where you get to be proactive and figure out what to do (rather than wait to be told) – then apply today.

What you’ll get by joining us

  • Opportunity to be part of building something exceptional, in an international environment
  • Lots of learning and growth in a globally scaling tech company
  • Competitive salary + stock options available

If you have any further questions about the position, you can turn to:
Andras Toth, Talent Acquisition Partner - [email protected]

Please note that we do not accept applications sent by mail. You should submit your application through our careers website!

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