The posting
Job Description
CaesarsEntertainment is the world's most geographically diversifiedcasino-entertainment company. Since its beginning in Reno, Nevada, more than 75years ago, Caesars has grown into a family of affiliated resort casinos on fourcontinents. Caesars-affiliated casino resorts operate primarily under theHarrah's®, Caesars® and Horseshoe® brand names. Affiliates of Caesars also own the World Series of Poker® and the LondonClubs International family of casinos. The Caesars Entertainment family’s success is a result of an unblinkingfocus of building loyalty and value withguests through a unique combination of great service, excellent products,unsurpassed distribution, operational excellence and technology leadership.Caesars and its affiliates are committed to environmental sustainability andenergy conservation and recognize the importance of being a responsible stewardof the environment.
Teammembers of the Caesars family of resort casinos are driven by our Mission,Vision, and Values. We take great pridein living our values Integrity, Service with Passion, Celebrating Success,Diversity, Caring Culture, and Ownership every day. Our mission “We inspire grown-ups to play�?fuels our passion for an exciting guest experience and a rewarding career. If you have the desire to create memorableexperiences, personalize rewards and delight every guest, every team memberevery time, we invite you to explore our dynamic yet unique careeropportunities.
Responsibilities/Purpose
The Senior Workforce Management and Reporting (WFM) Analyst will be responsible for forecasting, analyzing and reporting on contact volumes and handle times for a multi skilled contact center and creating schedules that will allow the center to meet its service level, sales, abandonment, training, and budgetary goals. The Sr. WFM Analyst must be proactive, hardworking, and able to meet deadlines within a fast paced and dynamic environment.
Job Functions:
- Creates and maintains long and short term forecasts by projecting future contact volume and handle times and analyzing historical trends, overhead, seasonality and marketing schedules to meet/exceed sales and services standards.
- Gathers and analyzes data in regards to hiring, budgeting, and labor related issues for improving service and/or sales and assists with communicating results to management.
- Gathers and analyzes data for shift/holiday bids. Creates and distributes shift/holiday bids that will allow the department to balance labor expenses and customer expectations.
- Creates and adjusts weekly schedules based upon forecasted contact volume and handle times. Creates and maintains annual vacation schedules based upon forecasts and training needs. Gathers and analyzes data for approval to schedule time off and overtime based upon the active forecast and intraday.
- Ensures that service level, occupancy, abandonment, and cost per minute goals are met by monitoring and making adjustments to schedules based upon the active forecast and intraday statistics. Assists with monitoring activities and assures that agents are adhering to their posted schedules.
- Responds to all requests from management and supervisors professionally and in a timely manner.
- Shifts contact volume based upon intraday between different workgroups and contact centers.
- Assists in the timely delivery of all departmental productivity reports. Creates custom reports for management based upon their requests and department needs. Pro-actively analyzes and reports contact center statistics to improve service and labor cost. Tracks statistics for all department pilots and projects.
- Assists in scheduling trainings, buzz sessions, briefings, team meetings and all other off phone activities based upon the active forecast and intraday statistics.
- Maintains agent information within all departmental databases.
- Assists with the attendance tracking and payroll to ensure timeliness and accuracy is at the highest standard.
Essential Requirements:
Education:
- High school graduate
Experience:
- 3 years contact center experience and 1 year customer service oriented job experience. Familiarity with reporting and WFM software.
Abilities:
- Must be able to type.
- Must have a thorough knowledge of the WFM processes including forecasting, scheduling and daily management.
- Intermediate level of Microsoft Office programs (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word).
- Excellent leadership, organizational, listening, interpersonal, analytical, written and verbal communication skills required.
- Must have good mathematical skills and a basic understanding of call center and workforce management terminology and call center productivity metrics.
- Must demonstrate and upbeat and positive disposition.
- Must be highly motivated, proactive individual and independent thinker.
- Must be able to handle multiple tasks in a high volume, fast paced environment.
- Must be able to motivate and inspire the team to achieve desired results.
- Knowledge of computer, telecommunications functions and systems, customer service and telemarketing. Excellent, developmental and motivational skills required.
Desired Skills:
- Some knowledge of IEX or other scheduling software, SQL, VB and Showcase preferred but not required.
- Reservations or Front Desk experience preferred but not required.
Qualifications:
Essential Requirements:
Education:
- High school graduate
Experience:
- 3 years contact center experience and 1 year customer service oriented job experience. Familiarity with reporting and WFM software.
Abilities:
- Must be able to type.
- Must have a thorough knowledge of the WFM processes including forecasting, scheduling and daily management.
- Intermediate level of Microsoft Office programs (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word).
- Excellent leadership, organizational, listening, interpersonal, analytical, written and verbal communication skills required.
- Must have good mathematical skills and a basic understanding of call center and workforce management terminology and call center productivity metrics.
- Must demonstrate and upbeat and positive disposition.
- Must be highly motivated, proactive individual and independent thinker.
- Must be able to handle multiple tasks in a high volume, fast paced environment.
- Must be able to motivate and inspire the team to achieve desired results.
- Knowledge of computer, telecommunications functions and systems, customer service and telemarketing. Excellent, developmental and motivational skills required.
Desired Skills:
- Some knowledge of IEX or other scheduling software, SQL, VB and Showcase preferred but not required.
- Reservations or Front Desk experience preferred but not required.
Disclaimer:
This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g. emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, or technical developments).
Theabove statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of workbeing performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as anexhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required ofpersonnel so classified.
Caesars Entertainment reserves the right to make changes to thejob description whenever necessary.
Asa part of Caesars Entertainment’s employment process, finalist candidates willbe required to complete a drug test and background check prior to an offerbeing extended. Caesars EntertainmentInc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receiveconsideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender,age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, or maritalstatus.
About Us
At Caesars Entertainment, Inc., our Team Members create the extraordinary. We are the largest casino-entertainment company in the U.S. and one of the world's most diversified casino-entertainment providers. Since beginning in Reno, Nevada, in 1937, Caesars Entertainment has grown through the development of new resorts, expansions and acquisitions. Our resorts operate primarily under the Caesars®, Harrah's®, Horseshoe® and Eldorado® brand names. We focus on building loyalty and value with our guests through a combination of impeccable service, operational excellence and technological leadership. The company is committed to its Team Members, suppliers, communities and the environment through its PEOPLE PLANET PLAY framework.
Our Caesars family is driven by our Mission, Vision and Values. We take great pride in living these values – Together We Win, All In On Service and Blaze the Trail – every day. Our mission, “Create the Extraordinary”. Our vision, “Create spectacular worlds. That immerse, inspire and connect you. We don’t perform magic; we create it with excellence. #WeAreCaesars”. If you are ready to create some magic, we invite you to explore our dynamic, yet unique, career opportunities.
