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Microsoft Alliance Cordinator at PwC
Job Description & Summary
A career in our Customer Experience practice, within Customer Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients design customer strategies that address the customers’ underlying needs and desired outcomes. We help build bridges between digital and analog mediums, delivering personal and contextual experiences powered by technology and analytics, and driving the total experience by engaging the customer, product, partner, and employee experiences.
Our team focuses on defining the desired customer experience through customer and market insight, aligning customer service channels with overall growth objectives, leveraging people and technology to establish a infrastructure that supports service strategy, and identifying and resolving billing and other performance issues that lead to customer dissatisfaction.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
- Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
- Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
- Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
- Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
- Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
- Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
- Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
- Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
- Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.
Job Description
From day one, the assistant Advisory Chief of Staff will have an immediate impact on our productivity and effectiveness as an Advisory team by working across strategy execution, operational management of the business, and communication. In this role you’ll have the opportunity to build strong relationships with the executive leadership team of PwC, locally in Africa, and across our Global network. You will also get exposure to the full value chain of a successful, growing Advisory business.
Our focus is on streamlining strategic initiatives, overseeing programme management, and facilitating collaboration between departments and support functions to achieve our strategic objectives. The ideal candidate will have a background in business management, communication and corporate strategy with a special focus on collaboration and executive-level advising.
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Objectives of this Role
- Support delivery of strategic business initiatives from development through successful execution under the guidance of senior leadership and departmental heads
- Assist and communicate with executives in decision-making, programme management, and strategic initiative implementation
- Review, design, and execute on improvements to organisation, find knowledge and skills gaps and help address them
- Improve current processes and coordinate organisational procedures for optimised efficiency and productivity
Daily and Monthly Responsibilities
- Support the Chief of Staff in daily operations through collaboration with senior management and department leaders, performing an array of administrative tasks from managing calendars, generating correspondence, maintaining information, planning and coordinating meetings and events
- Support the Chief of Staff as liaison between staff, executives, senior leaders, and CEO, regarding company climate, employee well-being, project updates, proposals, and planning
- Build and develop relationships with all employees for increased efficiency and effective responsiveness into existing operations, and help to define new strategies, working with the Advisory Leadership Team on special projects
- Serve as a subject matter expert, handling inquiries and developing action plans to address them, and assisting with the preparation and dissemination of communications
- Addressing ad hoc business requests
Skills and Qualifications
- Degree in Business Administration, Management Studies, or a similar field
- Work experience preferable, but not critical
- Excellent communicator in written and verbal form: Strong project reporting skills, with a focus on interdepartmental communication
- Extremely versatile, dedicated to efficient productivity, with a relational focus
- Learning agility, with a nimble business mind and a focus on developing creative solutions
- Experience with data analysis, reporting and visualisation
As an Associate / Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy through to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
- Develop new skills outside of your comfort zone
- Act as a problem solver to resolve issues that prevent the team from working effectively
- Learning agility, recognise your strengths, and taking ownership of your personal development
- Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations
- Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations
- Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm’s/client’s expectations
- Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making
- Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients
- Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties
- Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarising key points
- Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct
Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)
Degrees/Field of Study required:
Degrees/Field of Study preferred:
Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)
Required Skills
Optional Skills
Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)
Travel Requirements
Up to 20%
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
No
Government Clearance Required?
Yes
Job Posting End Date: March 31, 2022
HOW TO APPLY
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Corporate Training Telemarketer at People FOCO
Job Description
We are a HR Consultancy firm that is very passionate about people and their contribution towards the growth and success of any organization. We create systems that are streamlined towards the attainment of the organizations goals and build the capacity of the organizations employees to deliver results.
Corporate Training Telemarketer
Are you a dynamic, creative, and innovative telemarketer with a passion for sales and marketing? We are looking for a Corporate Training Telemarketer to join our client and help develop and grow their training business in the region. If you have a successful track record in marketing corporate training courses, corporate events, or corporate real estate services, we want to hear from you! This position based in Nairobi is to market the in-person training courses in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia & Malawi.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive sales by identifying and engaging potential clients.
- Understand client training needs and offer tailored solutions.
- Promote our unique training programs and demonstrate their value to corporate clients.
- Meet and exceed sales targets, contributing to business growth.
- Maintain organized, accurate records and manage your sales pipeline effectively.
Qualifications and Experience:
- A dynamic, creative, and innovative marketing and sales professional with 2-3 years work experience and proven track record in B to B corporate training marketing and sales or marketing corporate events or Real Estate sales experience (a must requirement).
- Proven top performer with exceptional communication and persuasion skills.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and goal-driven.
- Critical thinker who thrives in a fast-paced environment and consistently exceeds targets
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to:
vacancies@peoplefoco.co.ke
using the position as subject of email
Closing Date : 21 November. 2024
Jobs
Care Team Senior Supervisor at Cigna
Job Description
Cigna is a global health service company, dedicated to helping the people we serve improve their health, well-being and sense of security. Cigna has almost 40,000 employees who service over 80 million customer relationships around the world. Within its international division, a dedicated unit – headquartered in Belgium – focuses on the needs of International.
Care Team Senior Supervisor
Your job
As a Care Team Senior Supervisor, you will be managing a team based in KL, Nairobi and Madrid. You will be responsible to motivate your own teams to ensure production levels and targets are achieved, to ensure effective processing controls are in place across locations, as well as championing efforts that achieve the highest possible levels of provider experience and satisfaction that enable the company to meet its growth and profit objectives.
Your role will be broader than the day-to-day management of the team – your agile, provider centric mindset will ensure that you contribute to our overall provider operations strategy, identifying opportunities to enhance the service proposition and to improve the efficiencies and productivity of your teams. Your role will report into the Care Senior Manager based in Madrid.
Your role will be to:
- Responsible to lead dedicated care teams across the globe in and efficient and effective way.
- Build and bring alive a true culture of provider centricity.
- Responsible to meet operational KPI’s within the team in terms of production, quality, TAT, amongst others, and bring those alive across the team to deliver on those.
- Analysing support workflows and making suggestions to improve efficiency and effectiveness and be active in seeking and sharing ideas for innovation in business processes.
- Managing schedules of team members according to customer/provider demand and any service levels agreements.
- Assess the capacity planning for your segments as well as following up on absences and coverage strategies to secure business continuity.
- Taking part in forecasting and budgeting for customer service and tracking the actual performance against plan.
- Produce meaningful, accurate management reports and statistical information in line with formats and timescales agreed with management, including trending and enhancement activities to quantify operational impacts.
- Regular contact with Client Management, Service Ops, Clinical and other Cigna internal stakeholders within your remit.
- Identifying and acting to remove obstacles to delivering consistently high levels of services.
- Assisting and contributing with the design and rollout of new operational excellence projects.
- Ensure strong employee engagement within the team, including day to day oversight, motivation, conflict management, training, wellbeing, and performance by providing coaching and skill development in collaboration with the other Care Team management and PSO Management Team
- Working closely with senior management to help customer/ provider service deliver on their components of overall company goals and objectives.
- Be a focal point for the PSO leads as well as other internal stakeholders.
- Leading and supporting your teams through required changes.
- International travel on quarterly basis might be required.
Your profile
- Minimum 2 years’ experience leading operational teams within the company or outside.
- International mind-set, with holistic and able to work remotely with colleagues and direct reports across locations.
- Striving for excellent service to our members, clients, and providers.
- Experience in and passion for coaching, managing, developing, and motivating individuals and the team.
- Experience in change and process improvement management – with a proven track record in improving customer service standards.
- Experience managing offshore teams.
- Strong presentation skills, and knowledge of Window Office tools like Word, Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint.
- A growth mindset with a positive attitude towards change and the ability to play an active role in implementing change initiatives.
- Competency to build a team and create an atmosphere of positive collaboration, innovation and creative solutioning among the team members.
- Proven data analytics skills (advanced Excel, Qlikview, Tableau …).
- Results orientated – ability to cascade and explain goals, establish plans and manage work to achieve desired outcomes.
- Accountability – assumes ownership for achieving personal results and collective goals.
- Strong communication skills: demonstrating drive and enthusiasm. High level of English is a requirement.
Key Competenties
- Manage ambiguity
- Balances stakeholders
- Organizational Savy
- Drives Engagement
- Build effective teams
- Tech savvy
- Global perspective
- Data driven
What we offer?
- Type of Contract: Permanent.
- Multicultural working environment: A diverse job in an international context with impressive clients.
- Hybrid working: Enjoy working from the comfort of your home 3 days per week and 2 days from our Madrid office. Cigna’s “Happy You”: health and wellbeing initiatives, flexible work hours, home working opportunities.
- Flexible starting hour: Official Schedule Monday to Friday 9.00 to 17.00 but with flexibility. Our shifts are from 7:00 to 9:30, with the possibility to choose the time that suits you best.
- A wide range of social benefits (such as: healthcare insurance, pharmacy insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, shuttle bus and so on) and attractive salary packages.
HOW TO APPLY
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Closing Date : 21 November. 2024