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Rounak Ghosh

Workforce And Capacity Planning Professional || Operational Excellence
Kolkata

Summary

Workforce Management and Operational Excellence professional with years of diversified experience in short term forecasting, capacity planning , scheduling and real time governance, vendor management and project management.

Proficiency in WFM tools like Aspect, NICE IEX, Verint.

ITIL and Prince 2 certified along with knowledge of Six Sigma Methodology.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
6
6
Certificates
3
3
Languages
13
13

Years of domain expertise

Work History

Manager II, PLN/Development Manager

Amazon Development Center India Private Ltd
Kolkata
8 2022 - Current
  • Created optimized headcount and hiring plans Amazon Devices by managing trade-offs between customer experience, employee experience, and cost effectiveness for 2500+ front line agents across in house and vendors.
  • Estimated cost savings of $ 4.8 M (5.12% FTE reduction) with productivity goal calibration
  • Mitigated capacity risks by 12% by managing dependencies across multiple operating units and sites and developed fully functional business continuity plan
  • Participate in new customer service projects and initiatives such as new business, skill, and contact channel roll-outs on global basis, reducing average queue time by 19%
  • Managed analysis of daily, weekly, and monthly reporting of contact center performance via Key Performance Indicators
  • Developed and shared end to end capacity plan, and providing timely forecast analysis necessary for appropriate decision making
  • Identified capacity forecast risks and develop effective, flexible, and durable mitigation strategies, resulted in 6% increase in employee NPS
  • Worked cross-functionally to accurately reflect recent trends and achieve continuous improvement in capacity forecast accuracy, and other planning measures with over all increase in 3% in accuracy
  • Managed and executed various ad-hoc project requests
  • Effective vendor productivity and utilization management leading to 3.7% increase in efficiency
  • Ensure headcount occupancy is measured and delivered at goal ~80%
  • Responsible for planning and executing ramp up and ramp down of sites (captive and vendor) head count
  • Coordinate with Global Delivery Lead to create aggressive but realistic hiring plans and determine optimal employee mix (Captive vs vendor / FTE vs FTC) and contract durations
  • Develop site capacity review mechanisms to highlight roadblocks/changes in plan along with impact on operations/finance
  • Spearheaded change management initiatives, fostering culture of continuous improvement throughout organization
  • Developed strong relationships with stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and timely resolution of issues
  • Effective vendor and operation schedule and efficiency management resulting is 30% improvement in schedule adherence and 27% improvement is schedule conformance.

Workforce Manager

Amazon Development Center India Pvt Ltd
Kolkata
11.2021 - 07.2022
  • Supported site/s operation management team
  • Queue and routing, skill management and Real Time Governance
  • Effective Capacity Planning for first and third party sites
  • Coordinated with local site operations and global capacity planning team to analyze historical data and forecast demand for that site
  • Executed quarterly business reviews
  • Built strong relationship with site operations team to ensure proper execution of capacity plan as well as provides general education regarding best workflow management practices
  • Provided optimal workflow and capacity planning solutions for upcoming initiatives and new service launches at site
  • Managed career growth and development of Workflow Analysts by driving focus on Amazon's Core Values
  • Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement
  • Vendor productivity and utilization management
  • Vendor onboarding support
  • Ensure headcount occupancy/utilization is measured and delivered at goal
  • Responsible for planning and executing ramp up and ramp down of sites (captive and vendor) head count
  • Coordinate with Global Delivery Lead to create aggressive but realistic hiring plans and determine optimal employee mix (Captive vs vendor / FTE vs FTC) and contract durations
  • Develop site capacity review mechanisms to highlight roadblocks/changes in plan along with impact on operations/finance
  • Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders and senior management
  • Forecast contacts and plan capacity for team
  • Manage long-term and short-term staffing and scheduling
  • Build short/long term operational plans
  • Plan and manage multiple parallel data analysis

Team Lead: Resource Allocation

British Telecommunication E Serve Pvt Ltd
Kolkata
04.2020 - 11.2021
  • 30% WFM support scope expansion
  • 100% WFM (NICE IEX) tool implementation, configuration and administration
  • Resource and capacity planning for client support and vendor
  • Vendor productivity and efficiency management
  • SLA management
  • Effective schedule efficiency
  • Reporting consultant to BI team
  • Shrinkage Planning and management
  • Effective Business reviews , risk analysis and mitigations
  • Multi site team and conflict management (9 DR)
  • Team administration
  • Team performance management and reviews
  • Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement

Sr. Analyst Resource Management

Dell International Services Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
06.2011 - 04.2020
  • 700+ frontline employee scheduling and capacity management
  • 70% steady growth in WFM tool and process adoption
  • 90% accuracy in forecasting and scheduling
  • 90% schedule efficiency management
  • 80% SLA Management
  • Performance management via effective reviews and risk analysis
  • 100% WFM and ACD tool management (Aspect and Avaya CMS)
  • Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement
  • Resolved conflicts and negotiated mutually beneficial agreements between parties
  • Effective capacity planning between captive site and vendors
  • Liaison with vendor partner for productivity and utilization tracking
  • Vendor / Partner performance management and reviews

Performance Improvement Coach

Wipro BPS Limited
Kolkata
02.2010 - 06.2011
  • Managing end clients and stakeholder
  • Maintained 90% customer satisfaction score week on week through continuous coaching
  • Performed 100% success rate in managing customer experience outlier teams
  • Performed 100% productivity achievement quarter on quarter
  • Performed 100% success rate against customer satisfactory outlier teams
  • Mentored assistant coaches to develop their leadership skills and improve their understanding of coaching strategies
  • Enhanced team performance by developing and implementing effective coaching strategies
  • Monitored team's best practices to establish high level of performance
  • Analyzed and evaluated team performance metrics to identify areas of improvement

Education

Bachelor of Science - Economics

Calcutta University
Kolkata
06.2004 - 2007.06

High School Diploma -

St. Xavier's Institution
Kolkata
04.2002 - 2004.03

Skills

Business data analysis

Accomplishments

  • Project: Global Reporting Standardization (2016 to 2018)
  • Project: WFM Process Standardization (2016 to 2019)
  • Project: NICE IEX Implementation (2020-2021)
  • Project: NICE IEX Implementation (2023-2024)

Certification

  • PACE TA Program by QAI

Interests

Animal Welfare Activity

Work Availability

monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline

  • ITIL® 4 Foundation
02-2022
  • Prince2 ® Agile Practitioner
02-2022

Workforce Manager

Amazon Development Center India Pvt Ltd
11.2021 - 07.2022
  • Lean Six Sigma
08-2021
  • Operational Excellence Foundations
06-2021

Team Lead: Resource Allocation

British Telecommunication E Serve Pvt Ltd
04.2020 - 11.2021
  • Prince2 ® Foundation
12-2018
  • PACE TA Program by QAI
08-2017

Sr. Analyst Resource Management

Dell International Services Pvt Ltd
06.2011 - 04.2020

Performance Improvement Coach

Wipro BPS Limited
02.2010 - 06.2011

Bachelor of Science - Economics

Calcutta University
06.2004 - 2007.06

High School Diploma -

St. Xavier's Institution
04.2002 - 2004.03

Manager II, PLN/Development Manager

Amazon Development Center India Private Ltd
8 2022 - Current

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Bengali
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Rounak GhoshWorkforce And Capacity Planning Professional || Operational Excellence