Relationship & Operations Manager (Philippines Remote)

Company Description

When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For over 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 21,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Feedback Studio, Originality, Gradescope, ExamSoft, Similarity, and iThenticate.

Experience a remote-centric culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education.

Turnitin is a global organization with team members in over 35 countries including the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, India, and the Philippines.

Job Description

This role manages the overall quality of service delivery and daily operations
through relationship management with the BPOs.

This role will focus on driving improvement in delivery management core processes and opportunities, BPO performance and customer satisfaction.

• Act as the main point of contact for the BPO and handle their day-to-day communication and requirements.
• Define, develop, communicate and implement standard operating procedures and best practices for BPO execution.
• Manage client and BPO expectations to ensure implementation and use of services are within the agreed scope and timeframe.
• Manage BPO contract fulfillment from a day-to-day relationship and operational perspective.
• Manage BPO staff onboarding, the proper use of all agent tools and offboarding in alignment with Turnitin’s security requirements.
• Maintain a working knowledge of operational support requirements and expectations, across Turnitin product lines, to support all BPO teams and foster accountability.
• Monitor quality of deliverables according to Turnitin’s expectations and standard operating procedures to ensure that the relevant KPIs are met.
• Manage and supervise BPO performance in alignment with Turnitin’s objectives, adjusting milestones as needed to drive BPO and agent-specific performance.
• Responsible for ensuring appropriate internal escalations are progressed with proactive and effective communication to minimize any impact.
• Focus on improving quality through the use of calibrations, audits, and evaluation of performance scores to maintain operational compliance.
• Lead improvement in BPO new hire and overall team performance through ongoing coaching, feedback, positive recognition, and the implementation of corrective action to course correct.
• Review analytics and reports to address quality, performance and forecast concerns and opportunities.
• Responsible for managing diverse cultural contexts to ensure the successful handling and productivity of all BPO relationships.
• Produce supporting materials, including documentation and template plans for use by internal and external stakeholders involved in assessment delivery and reviewing services.
• Identify and implement new strategies/policies/systems to improve the quality and efficiency of service delivery performance and accuracy.
• Work cross-functionally with our CSMs and Product teams to continually improve performance and drive towards increased self-service and ticket deflection.

Qualifications

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in managing nearshore/offshore teams.
• Prior Vendor Management experience.
• Experience gathering business and functional requirements with involved teams (including external partners).
• Strong organizational and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A passion for consistent and timely delivery and the personality to overcome any obstacle associated with the ability to work individually or as part of a team.
• Highly data-driven with a commitment to process. The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic and always changing environment.
• Working Hours: US Central Time zone.
• Demonstrated skill sets:
  • Internal and External relations: Create relationships across internal functional teams to develop and maintain line of sight to the client’s objectives.
  • Time Management: Coordinate timely completion of client and internal deliverables across functional teams
  • Leadership: Lead and collaborate on day-to-day and ad-hoc requests in addition to providing prioritization level to the transversal team.

Desirable

• Experience managing remote stakeholders
• Experience in customer-facing role, in a high-tech environment
• Experience/knowledge of the EdTech industry
• Fluency in a European language

Personal attributes

• Leading by persuasion and motivation.
• A bias for action and ownership.
• Ability to collaborate with internal teams for the benefit of the customer.
• Empathetic to customer needs, understand the questions that customers ask.

Additional Information

Total Rewards @ Turnitin
Turnitin maintains a Total Rewards package that is competitive within the local job market. People tend to think about their Total Rewards monetarily — solely as regular pay plus bonus or commission. This is what they earn in exchange for what they do. However, Turnitin delivers more than just these components. Beyond the intrinsic rewards of unleashing your potential to positively impact global education, and thriving in an organization that is free of politics and full of humble, inclusive and collaborative teammates, the extrinsic rewards at Turnitin include generous time off and health and wellness programs that offer choice and flexibility and provide a safety net for the challenges that life presents from time to time. Experience a remote-centric culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being.

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.
Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.

• Passion for Learning - We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.

• Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.

• Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.

• One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.

• Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.

Global Benefits

• Remote First Culture
• Health Care Coverage*
• Education Reimbursement*
• Competitive Paid Time Off 
• 4 Self-Care Days per year
• National Holidays*
• 2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed
• Paid Volunteer Time*
• Charitable contribution match*
• Monthly Wellness or Home Office Reimbursement/*
• Access to Modern Health (mental health platform)
• Parental Leave*
• Retirement Plan with match/contribution*
• * varies by country

Seeing Beyond the Job Ad
At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team!
Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.