Delivery Excellence Manager
About the role
Delivery Excellence Manager in Canada East (Remote) leading a team of 7-8 Team Specialists across Canada and EMEA within Premium Support. Focus on SME work, operations and administration, and projects, with formalizing processes, change management, and AI-enabled workflows.
Responsibilities
- Lead the team's subject matter expertise (SME) work as the frontline for Premium Support
- Build and nurture an engaged, diverse team of seven to eight Team Specialists across Canada and EMEA
- Coach and uplevel Team Specialists, supporting and challenging them to meet and exceed expectations
- Mentor Team Specialists into larger project management initiatives
- Create development paths and stretch assignments for cross-functional projects
- Identify and implement workflow improvements, maintain and improve Slack-based processes, and bring insights back to leadership
- Oversee scheduling and administration in partnership with Workforce Planning
- Set and track targets for quality, volume and turnaround of consult output
- Balance workloads fairly across the team using a systematic, capacity-based approach to work intake and distribution
- Lead the team’s SME work as frontline for Premium Support, overseeing consults and refresher sessions
- Run operations and administration including scheduling, NICE spreadsheets, and scheduling inbox
- Identify and implement workflow improvements and maintain Slack-based processes
- Drive fully structured projects including process design, communications, change management plans and success tracking
- Drive automation and scaling initiatives, including AI-enabled tools
- Provide performance insights to Premium Support leaders to support coaching and improvement
- Own and manage end-to-end people strategy and operations (hiring, onboarding, development, engagement, wellness)
- Lead the team through change as it moves to formal, regionalized processes
- Balance day-to-day management and overlap with EMEA as needed
Qualifications
- 8+ years of progressive experience in contact center or customer service operations with strategy and operations optimization
- Direct people management experience (coaching, performance management, development)
- BA/BS degree required; MBA or equivalent Master’s strongly preferred
- Background in customer service operations at scale
- Hospitality or premium tier support knowledge
- AI fluency and active use of AI tools in day-to-day work; comfortable leading a team adopting AI
- Change management skills; ability to lead through transition from informal to structured ways of working
- Ability to translate big-picture goals into actionable steps for teams
- Strong stakeholder communication skills across engineers, product, analytics, and frontline teams
- Experience in global, fast-paced environments with ambiguity
- Excellent communication and documentation skills for cross-functional and leadership audiences
- Ability to drive strategic initiatives with influencing and stakeholder management
- Strong work ethic, positivity, professionalism, confidentiality and good judgment
- Comfort with conflict, feedback, and talent management
- Cultural competency and commitment to diversity and inclusion
- Ability to work weekend days and on-call with overlap with EMEA
- Nice to have: PMO/structured project management experience, Airtable or similar tools, NICE or workforce management tools, experience with EMEA teams or cross-time-zone management
Skills
Benefits
- Reasonable accommodations available during recruitment
- Base pay range: CAD 94,000—117,000 per year
- Eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits
- Office presence optional with Canada East Remote eligibility

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