Operations Project Manager

Scope of the Role: 

In this position, you’ll manage the overall performance and governance of the Statement of Work (SOW), manage the day-to-day operations in accordance with the requirements of the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) set out in the SOW, promptly identify and resolve Service delivery issues including implementation of preventive measures, handle transition management during set-up phase or expansion phase

As a key player in the Operations teams, you’ll support the deployment of infrastructure necessary to perform the Services, including all technology, financial, human resources, security, facilities, and communication resources. Install all Service delivery processes and Service level reporting mechanisms.

As a key leader, you’re to provide exceptional people management, mentorship, and career development to members, including your managers and agents/raters, achieve low attrition levels and high employee engagement. Drive Operations teams to deliver continuous improvement and productivity gains. Flag and escalate business risks to both internal and external stake holders, keeping mind the internal strategies to support Innodata overall Project Delivery goals and objectives.

What You’ll Own:

 As a Project Manager on our AI Large Language Models team, you will be joining a truly global team of subject matter experts and diverse leaders across a wide variety of disciplines and will be entrusted with a range of responsibilities. This will include:

• Leading end-to-end small to medium project deployment in collaboration with the Total Quality Management (TQM) teams and all stakeholders.
• Providing thought leadership in resolving language and dialect nuances to advance recruitment, evaluation of applicants and performance evaluation of personnel under specific languages of expertise.
• Supporting total customer satisfaction.
• Supporting all strategies, processes and initiatives of TQM teams and promote collaboration of all Operations leaders as needed and in improving Client’s community and support experience. Playing an active role in improving policies, products, process and support system processes by providing insights and offering suggestions including feedback from the teams.
• Identifying potential risks or issues with project implementations and proactively drive communications with internal and external stakeholders.
• Translating business requirements into operations plans.
• Crafting and implementing tracking, monitoring, and reporting methodologies of all SLAs required per SOW. Ensuring achievement of KPIs, directing Root Cause Analyses documentation among team members, and defining resolution and operations strategies to achieve all SLAs.
• Assessing and prioritizing the top-operations issues affecting the team.
• Collaborating with all support teams, implement project and process kick-offs, monitor and report project/process/initiative status, initiate resolution discussions for any challenges. Manage, monitor, and communicate change delivery items as needed.
• Overseeing new hire deployment status to client platforms and knowledge of SLAs. Coordinating mutual goals with TQM teams.
• Initiating productivity, process, security, and facilities improvement plans. Partnering with TQM teams to ensure alignment.
• Coaching and mentoring all leaders within your span including how they should drill down on the same people management strategies to agents.
• Bolstering the management of training programs including planning, design, development, implementation, delivery, process review and performance evaluation.
• Supporting management on business and expansion strategies, revenue and profitability goals, and overall financial improvement plans.

You’ll Thrive in This Role If You Have:

• Experience and passion for managing large diverse teams of experts across multiple sites in a fast-paced environment, able to deal with rapid change and ambiguity.
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• 5+ years of experience in operations and people management experience, including managing leaders, and a strong desire to develop team members.
• Excited to be part of a global operations teams, design effective business operations, tackle complex problems, and develop individual team members.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects concurrently through to successful implementation in an operational environment.
• Adaptable and energized by a fast-paced environment.
• Possesses creative energy, drive, initiative, commitment, and enthusiasm.
• Exceptional candidate with bachelor’s degree or equivalent required. Certification on Project Management or Six Sigma a plus.
• Excellent communication skills, written and oral.