Real Time Analyst
CurrentPart of the Apple Online Store’s EMEIA Call Centre Operations Team, real time analysts are responsible for ensuring that Service Levels are reached on an ongoing basis. I monitor incoming calls, redeploy agent resources on the fly from all of our EMEIA Call Centres, evaluate requests from team leaders from multiple sources and work on ongoing projects whilst working closely with Apple Online Store Site Managers, Product Readiness, Learning, Sales Strategy, and Vendor Management teams.• Ensuring that optimum service levels are achieved within the Online Store on an intra-day, daily, weekly and monthly, basis in order to drive up service level consistency performance.• Agent on-boarding/off-boarding/changes. This includes partnering with reporting teams and application support teams to troubleshoot agent profile issues.• Make any required intraweek scheduling changes to accommodate late-scheduled training and events.• Applying levers through the day to increase staffing levels (OT, reduced lunches, skilling changes) and decrease staffing levels (VTO, training, offline activity) with a goal of ensuring service level targets are met and operational expense is closely managed.• Assist internal customers with low-level reporting requests.• Designing and implementing appropriate support processes.• Response and resolution for Call-flow issues, all call-flow changes, SLAs and escalations.• Acting on analytics to support ongoing optimisation of the contact centre environment and recommending improvement initiatives.• Partnering with telephony support resources to ensure that the EMEA call routing/agent skilling strategy is optimised to meet business objectives. Working with the technical support groups to: • Coordinate changes and any environment impacting activities.• Develop customer response strategies.• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.• Attention to detail & the ability to identify trends in service level performance