Senior Learning Specialist

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We are Optimum, a leader in the fast-paced world of connectivity, and we're on the hunt for enthusiastic professionals to join our team! We understand that connectivity isn't just a luxury anymore – it's a necessity that empowers lives, fuels businesses, and drives innovation. A career at Optimum means you'll be enabling progress and enhancing lives by providing reliable, high-speed connectivity solutions that keep the world connected. We owe our success to our amazing product, commitment to our people and the connections we make in every community.

If you are resourceful, collaborative, team-oriented and passionate about delivering consistent excellence, Optimum is the Company for you!

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Job Summary

The Sr Learning Specialist is accountable for the content and delivery for training the Customer Care and Retention organizations. This person is responsible for the preparation and delivery of the Customer Care & Retention training programs. They’ll develop curriculum that provides transparency on the operational, technical, and soft skills needed by outlining clear expectations to be successful. This includes all training programs from new hire training, upskilling, new product training, desktop and/or tool enhancements and overall certification and recertification.

The Sr Learning Specialist oversees the developmental needs of BPO and direct-hire staff, ensuring that there is consistency with core competencies and goals. This person will assess the usability and effectiveness of deployed knowledge to support agent performance. The Sr. Learning Specialist works in collaboration with the BPO trainers and internal leadership to determine training needs for the team and works to ensure that all training is consistent. The Sr. Learning Specialist creatively designs training to enhance performance and works with departmental leaders to recognize outstanding achievement.

The Sr Learning Specialist liaises with the Quality, Process and Readiness organizations to provide support and help drive innovation for all knowledge content and ensures full alignment quality expectations to ensure the goals and strategies which support the company’s vision are achieved.

Responsibilities

• Deliver new-hire onboarding and ongoing training, in the form of “Train-the-Trainer” or direct to staff for Care and Retention Frontline agent and Leadership roles.
• Organize and assist in the design of training, and ongoing initiatives which lead to improved speed to proficiency.
• Develop mastery level knowledge in all products, services, order entry and contact center/retention tools, policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Utilize various instructional techniques and formats such as simulations, team activities, group discussion, role-playing, videos, and lectures along with leading the training initiatives and special projects.
• Measure compliance to established training curriculum through methods such as in person observations, audits, metrics, testing, and focus groups.
• Work in partnership with Readiness on needed training and programs for all new product launches and process enhancements/redesigns.
• Continuously improve the learning experience by collaborating with the business.
• Ensure all training curriculums support the intent of the initiative for successful implementation.
• Facilitate agent focus groups and proper action planning post onboarding to uncover improvement opportunities framed from an agent perspective.
• Ensure training aligns with Agent KPIs to measure results.
  
  

Qualifications

Management Skills

• Proven training development and design, project management, process management, and operations management skills.
• Ability to prioritize and organize multiple projects concurrently
• Management skills necessary to effectuate change over cross-functional areas.
• Strong leadership, motivational and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication abilities required.
• Strong cross-functional and cross-organizational integration skills.
• Proven facilitation skills that engage and excite participants.
• Must have the ability to travel to various office locations within the international Altice USA staffing footprint.
  
  

Technical/Functional Competencies

• Ability to manage the full training cycle, delivery and management of multi-channel training classroom, webinar and self-paced learning required.
• Demonstrated ability to create impact assessments & strategies for frontline personnel
• Training content development experience
• Demonstrated presentation skills and experience using Learning Management Systems (LMS)
• Understanding of Process Management software (MS Project, Visio, etc.)
• Proficiency with MS suite (Excel, Word, Access, and PowerPoint) programs and systems
• Strong design competencies including aesthetic, usability, and functional design
• Exceptional user-centered design and research practices
• Ability to articulate and document business requirements and design concepts
  
  

Key Experiences/Achievements

• Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in large operational organizations, preferably within a customer service function delivering learning sessions, including live group presentations and virtual classes using web-conferencing tools.
• Degree or equivalent experience in education and/or Certification in Training & Development (or equivalent work experience)
• Superior verbal, written, and listening communications skills.
• Strong leadership qualities with a demonstrated ability to influence a cross-functional team and top management to follow a defined course of action
• Experience assessing the usability and effectiveness of deployed knowledge
• Experience working collaboratively with other departments to assure knowledge resources and training products produce a seamless experience for staff
• Demonstrated commitment to teaching and training, with a proven ability to contribute to the planning and delivery of an effective training program
• Experience in content creation, maintenance of training processes, and the successful development and execution of ongoing training and development programs
  
  

At Optimum, we're fueled by our four core pillars: Taking Ownership, Upholding Transparency, Creating Community, and Demonstrating Expertise. Our commitment to empowering employees to take responsibility and embrace proactive problem-solving underpins Taking Ownership. Upholding Transparency is at the core of our culture, with open and honest communication fostering trust among our dedicated team and loyal customers. Creating Community is more than a goal; it's our daily commitment to fostering an environment of collaboration, innovation, and positivity. Demonstrating expertise is a promise we uphold through continuous learning and engagement with our customers to consistently deliver top-quality products and services. These pillars not only shape our culture but define Optimum as a place of excellence, trustworthiness, and thriving community, and we invite you to be a part of our journey.

If you have the drive to succeed and are ready to embark on a thrilling career, seize this opportunity today, and join our winning team, so together, we'll shape the future of connectivity.

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This position is identified as being performed in/or reporting to company operations in New York State. Salary ranges are supplied in compliance with New York State law. Pay is competitive and based on a number of job-related factors, including skills and experience. The starting pay rate/range at time of hire for this position in the posted location is $77,112.00 - $126,684.00 / year. The rate/range provided herein is the anticipated pay at the time of hire, and does not reflect future job opportunity.