Description
Role Purpose
This role represents the organisation on the ground in the Philippines, overseeing day-to-day performance across multiple BPO vendors for the assigned vertical. The core mandate is to ensure the organisation’s standards and customer expectations are clearly understood, translated, and enforced locally.
The role will monitor delivery quality, identify issues early, resolve operational gaps, drive improvements, and keep vendors aligned with the organisation’s performance targets. It is a hands-on performance leadership position—requiring influence without authority—while maintaining independence, objectivity, and execution discipline across the vertical.
Applicants must have experience in a similar vendor management role and demonstrate strong familiarity with Australian culture, communication styles, and commercial expectations. This experience may come from:
- Working directly in Australia
- Supporting Australian organisations
- Managing Australian customers or stakeholders
Experience in the telecommunications industry is strongly preferred.
Key Responsibilities
Daily Vendor Performance Oversight
- Monitor service delivery across assigned vendors within the vertical
- Identify underperformance, emerging issues, and operational risks
- Ensure adherence to KPIs, quality standards, and customer outcome targets
Act as the Organisation’s On-the-Ground Representative
- Provide real-time visibility to key stakeholders in Australia
- Communicate and reinforce priorities, expectations, and urgency consistently
Customer Experience Leadership
- Champion a culture of service excellence to ensure world-class customer experiences
- Review CSAT, NPS, complaints, and customer metrics to drive improvements
- Collaborate with Australia-based stakeholders to align PH operations with broader CX strategy
Operational & Performance Management
- Oversee operational efficiency, compliance, and cost optimisation
- Lead governance sessions, QBRs, and transformation updates
- Drive workforce management, training, and technology adoption
Continuous Improvement
- Address process gaps, inefficiencies, and customer pain points with vendor leaders
- Implement corrective actions and improvement plans
Innovation & Future-Proofing
- Introduce digital tools such as AI, chatbots, self-service, and automation
- Reduce inbound call volumes through proactive communication and smarter service delivery
- Monitor global telco service trends for benchmarking
Translate Australian Context into PH Operations
- Communicate Australian standards, regulatory expectations, and customer behaviour
- Reinforce urgency and escalation requirements
Cross-Vendor Alignment
- Ensure consistent processes, controls, and expectations across all vendors
- Share learnings and promote standardisation
Issue Escalation & Risk Management
- Surface risks early with data and recommended actions
- Escalate critical issues promptly to the corresponding lead in Australia
Support Vendor Relationship Health
- Maintain a firm yet collaborative partnership with vendor management
- Balance performance pressure with constructive engagement
Reporting & Insights
- Provide concise weekly/monthly performance updates
- Use data to highlight trends, successes, deviations, and required interventions
Hands-On Operational Engagement
- Spend time on vendor floors observing live operations
- Validate issues by listening to agents, TLs, and QA teams
- Maintain regular presence across vendor sites
Execute Without Authority
- Influence through expertise, credibility, and relationships
- Hold vendors accountable through structured governance and data-driven follow-ups
Key Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, or related fields; MBA is an advantage
- At least 12 years of BPO/contact centre experience in the Philippines
- Minimum 5 years of leadership experience managing outsourced vendors or influencing vendor performance (preferably telco or large-scale service industries)
- Mandatory: Experience supporting Australian stakeholders or customers
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Ability to translate Australian expectations for PH teams
- Experience working in a matrix reporting structure
- Deep knowledge of the Philippine vendor landscape and BPO operating models
- Strong grasp of process execution, FCR, customer experience, and day-to-day operations
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including exposure to C-suite stakeholders
- Familiarity with digital tools and AI solutions for customer service improvement
- Proven track record partnering with cross-functional teams at all levels
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills in English
- Proactive, detail-oriented, and able to “roll up sleeves” when needed
- Flexibility with schedules depending on operational demands
- Willingness to travel and work across multiple vendor sites within Metro Manila
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