Based in Pasadena, California, Dine Brands Global, Inc. (NYSE: DIN), through its subsidiaries, franchises restaurants under Applebee's Neighborhood Grill + Bar®, IHOP® and Fuzzy's Taco Shop® brands. With over 3,500 restaurants combined in 18 countries and 354 franchisees as of December 31, 2023, Dine Brands is one of the largest full-service restaurant companies in the world. For more information on Dine Brands, visit the Company's website located at www.dinebrands.com.

Reporting to the Vice President of IT, Project Management Office (PMO), the Workforce Management Analyst will play a crucial role in optimizing FTS employee performance and ensuring that an organization’s resources are utilized effectively to meet business needs and committed service levels. The Workforce Management Analyst will collaborate with internal teams, monitor performance, analyze data using predictive modeling, and recommend process improvements.

Responsibilities

This role is responsible for volume forecasting, daily reporting, staffing & scheduling, and monitoring of real-time performance of the FTS Help Desk.
This includes reviewing team member schedule adherence, assisting with intraday management of resource capacity, monitoring multiple channel performance and productivity, identifying schedule adjustments to meet staffing and service goals, conducting call analytics, developing, and monitoring coverage strategies and helping build and modify reports.
Monitor forecast accuracy across multiple contact channels and improve understanding of volume drivers until they get within a reasonable accuracy rate.
Assist with setting schedules and implementing processes for agent schedule changes and flexibility to make sure that we have the right number of people at the right times of day to achieve service levels
Use WFM tool to help create interval forecasting at various skill/process levels, manage intraday performance by switching agents to where they are needed, set reasonable targets for occupancy and schedule adherence, and have a process for managing it
Accurately forecasts attrition and works closely with the leadership team to proactively hire to the right level
Provides recommendations for short and long-term staffing needs
Ad Hoc Analysis and Reporting
Identify and apply analytical skills to answer questions about periods of volume spikes and conduct postmortems on the occasion when poor service levels occur.
Identify out of line KPIs including but not limited to over/under-utilized agents, long ACW, customers on hold for greater than `30 seconds and are able to get to their root causes to help resolve.
Leverage data and financial analysis, workforce models, and innovation to inform, advise, problem solve, and influence decisions and outcomes that align with strategic priorities.
Utilize Call Analytics to identify inefficiencies and opportunities with processes, staffing and technology Partner with businesses to identify, develop and implement strategies to drive performance
Create, maintain, and distribute reporting and conduct variance analysis that adds insight to processes.
Analyze trends, understand seasonality, work closely with key business partners including sales, client success, and the product teams to understand the account placement pipeline, and deeply understand how account volumes and industry and economic trends translate to contact center volumes
Accurately predict work volume, handle time and staff shrinkage and appropriately schedule the workforce to meet service levels and improve center-wide performance Recommend efficient, compliant solutions which support business processes
Partner with management to develop, implement and monitor strategies to drive performance
Manage implementation and review of new and existing operational strategies and analysis simultaneously
Perform other duties as assigned.
Salary $70k+

Skills & Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, IT, Finance, or related field (additional experience above the required minimum maybe substituted for the level of education)
4 years of contact center experience with 2 years dealing specifically with workforce management (planning, forecasting, scheduling, managing intraday performance)
Experience with Calabrio WFM application (all modules)
Experience with Cisco Call Center Technologies a plus
Experience with ServiceNow service management application a plus
Knowledge of statistical analysis of call center data, WFM, forecasting, quality control, and an understanding of performance measurement tools
Ability to develop and maintain business relationships with internal business partners, employees, and at all levels of management.
Ability to work efficiently in high-pressure situations, meet tight deadlines, and demonstrate a high level of flexibility in a rapidly changing and diverse environment.
Strong customer focus with demonstrated success in meeting customer needs; ability to balance multiple tasks, projects, and competing priorities both independently and as part of a team.
Fluent with Excel and Windows-based programs (Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
Proven track record of delivering results, with an ability to establish priorities and reliably execute on solutions.
Ability to organize, analyze and interpret significant data in a structured manner to make sound business recommendations and/or decisions, attention to detail and problem-solving abilities.

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