[Hiring] Vendor Performance Manager @gFiber

Role Description

We are seeking a Call Center Vendor Manager to establish, manage, and optimize outsourced operations supporting specialty and general customer service groups. In this critical Individual Contributor (IC) role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end performance lifecycle:

• Architecting new workflows
• Defining KPIs
• Driving daily execution and continuous improvement

You will leverage data analysis, performance dashboards, and insightful reporting to hold vendors accountable for meeting KPIs. In addition, you will drive an improved customer experience through:

• Identifying and resolving process gaps
• Developing outage management strategies
• Contributing significantly to system design and migration
• Creating impactful agent scripting/training

Your ability to design programs from scratch and build relationships within gFiber and at the vendor will be key to driving process improvements. You will need to be a master storyteller translating complex business problems into simple actionable insights.

In this role, you’ll:

• Drive customer experience improvements by designing, launching, and managing vendor operations; define end-to-end workflows, workforce requirements, routing strategies, and KPIs to ensure efficient call handling and productivity.
• Develop and implement pilot programs, agent scripts, and training modules; analyze vendor performance data, CSAT, and customer insights to identify trends, address process gaps, and drive continuous improvement in service quality and customer experience, including specific protocols for customer outages.
• Proactively identify inefficiencies in existing processes and lead improvement initiatives; leverage a system-design mindset to contribute significantly to the transition from legacy systems to new platforms, designing and implementing solutions from the ground up.
• Create, maintain, and evolve performance dashboards and reporting mechanisms; analyze data to visualize trends, measure vendor productivity against KPIs, and deliver actionable weekly insights to leadership and vendor partners.
• Lead regular vendor performance reviews, presenting data-driven insights and strategic recommendations to manage relationships effectively, ensure accountability towards achieving operational targets, and align on performance management strategies.
• Participate in an "On Call" rotation every 6 weeks, including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in Internet Service Provider (ISP) operations.
• 7 years of experience in Call Center Vendor Management within Customer Service contact centers.
• Experience manipulating and analyzing large data sets in spreadsheets (Google Sheets, Creating Dashboards, pulling data from SQL tables) to performance manage results.
• Experience managing cross-functional and cross-regional teams in Project Management, Customer Service, Process Quality, and Process Optimization.
• Ability to travel 25% of the time domestically and to nearshore locations.

Requirements

• 5 years of experience managing a team within an ISP (Internet Service Provider) or similar technical industry.
• Experience with designing and implementing workflows, process improvements and systems or tools to work with external parties.
• Proven ability to drive back-office efficiency, monitoring, and KPI compliance.
• Experience with influencing internal and partner organizations working with engineering, field operations, shared services, customer service, sales support in developing value propositions.
• Problem-solving skills, with the ability to build and maintain capacity and budget.
• Experience in contract negotiations.
• Ability to adapt to change quickly and effectively while operating in a fast-paced, constantly evolving team environment; self-starter with an analytical mindset and ability to work independently on multiple initiatives at the same time.

Benefits

• The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $119,000 - $191,300 + bonus + benefits.