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About the position
The NearU National Booking Center is a centralized appointment setting contact center for NearU supported home services companies. The Contact Center Workforce Manager is responsible for ensuring the National Booking Center shifts are staffed correctly, at the right times, with the right people. This role owns forecasting, scheduling, intraday management, and real-time adherence to optimize service levels, employee experience, and operational efficiency. This position plays a critical role in balancing customer demand, agent availability, and business objectives while supporting the continued growth and operational maturity of the National Booking Center.
Responsibilities
Forecast call volume and staffing needs using historical data, trends, seasonality, and business inputs
Develop short-term and long-term staffing models to support service level and operational targets
Perform manual forecasting and scenario modeling when automated tools, clean data, or systems are unavailable
Build and maintain agent schedules aligned to forecasted demand
Manage intraday schedules including breaks, lunches, meetings, training, and special assignments
Make real-time schedule adjustments to address volume fluctuations, absenteeism, or operational changes
Monitor schedule adherence and conformance throughout the day
Identify adherence trends, risks, and gaps; surface insights to leadership
Partner with supervisors and managers to correct intraday performance issues quickly and effectively
Produce workforce reports related to adherence, utilization, shrinkage, and staffing effectiveness
Analyze workforce performance data and recommend improvements to forecasts, schedules, and processes
Translate data into clear, actionable insightsnot just dashboards that look cool in meetings
Utilize workforce management and contact center tools to support forecasting, scheduling, and intraday management
Support the implementation and optimization of new workforce management or forecasting software
Partner with Operations, IT, and vendors to improve forecasting accuracy and tool adoption
Collaborate with Operations, Training, QA, and Leadership to align staffing with business priorities
Support special initiatives such as new program launches, seasonal demand shifts, and operational pilots
Requirements
2+ years of experience in workforce management or workforce coordination within a contact center environment
Demonstrated experience with manual forecasting techniques
Erlang calculations
Strong understanding of forecasting, scheduling, adherence, and intraday management
Advanced Excel and data analysis skills (pivot tables, formulas, trend analysis)
Ability to communicate workforce insights clearly to operational and executive leaders
Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
Nice-to-haves
ServiceTitan Contact Center Pro (CCP) or similar contact center platforms preferred
Experience implementing or supporting new workforce management or forecasting software
Exposure to multi-skill, multi-queue, or multi-brand contact center environments
Familiarity with service level, occupancy, shrinkage, and utilization metrics
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