Team lead

Role: Team Lead - Voice_A 

Location: Kolkata 

Experience: 3-10 years 

Band: BPO 3/4 

Job code: 434135 Process: International Inbound / Outbound Voice Customer 

Service Domain: Customer Service Operations 

Shift: Rotational shifts, including night/graveyard shifts, weekends, and public holidays

 Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Team Lead – International Voice to lead a customer-service team supporting international customers through inbound and/or outbound voice channels.

The role will be responsible for daily operations, team performance, coaching, customer escalations, quality, productivity, service levels, compliance, and continuous improvement. The Team Lead will provide real-time floor support and work closely with Quality, Training, Workforce Management, and Operations teams to ensure consistent service delivery.

 Key Responsibilities

* Lead and manage an international voice customer-service team to achieve service-level, quality, productivity, and customer-experience targets.

* Monitor real-time operations, staffing, workload, floor performance, and service levels.

* Conduct daily team huddles, one-to-one coaching, performance reviews, and development activities.

* Monitor agent performance through call observations, quality reviews, dashboards, and operational reports.

* Provide real-time support for complex customer queries, complaints, escalations, retention cases, difficult conversations, and billing-related concerns.

* Take ownership of critical customer escalations and coordinate timely and accurate resolution.

* Ensure adherence to approved processes, scripts, knowledge content, customer verification, privacy, compliance, and documentation requirements.

* Manage attendance, schedule adherence, shrinkage, and leave planning in line with business requirements.

* Analyse performance trends, repeat contacts, complaint drivers, escalations, and customer feedback to identify root causes and corrective actions.

* Partner with Quality, Training, Workforce Management, and Operations teams to address skill gaps, quality issues, staffing risks, and service interruptions.

* Support new-hire transition, nesting, refresher training, and ongoing team development.

* Maintain performance trackers, action plans, risk logs, and operational reports.

* Identify opportunities to improve first-contact resolution, customer effort, productivity, and overall service quality.

* Promote a customer-focused, respectful, accountable, and high-performance team culture.

 Required Skills & Experience

* 3–6 years of international voice customer-service experience, including at least 3 years in a Team Lead, Acting Team Lead, or people-supervisory role.

* Proven experience managing teams in a target-driven inbound and/or outbound voice environment.

* Strong spoken and written English with clear pronunciation, active listening, empathy, and professional communication skills.

* Experience handling complex customer interactions, complaints, critical escalations, retention conversations, and billing-related queries.

* Good understanding of customer-service KPIs, including SLA, AHT, Quality, CSAT, FCR, adherence, shrinkage, absenteeism, and schedule compliance.

* Strong performance-management, coaching, feedback, and people-development skills.

* Ability to analyse operational data, identify root causes, and implement practical corrective actions.

* Working knowledge of CRM, telephony, workforce management, quality monitoring, knowledge-management, and reporting tools.

* Understanding of customer verification, privacy, data security, call recording, mandatory disclosures, complaint handling, and documentation controls.

* Willingness to work rotational shifts, including night/graveyard shifts, weekends, and public holidays.

 Preferred

* Experience in Utilities – Electricity & Gas Customer Service.

* Knowledge of billing, meter reads, payments, collections, move-in/move-out, complaints, vulnerability, and customer retention.

* Bachelor's degree in any discipline preferred.

* Lean Six Sigma, COPC, coaching, or people-management certification is an advantage.

 Important Notes

* Ex TCS Employees can't apply.

* PAN and DOB are required for profile creation.