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Capacity Planning Manager

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Microsoft Corporation

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Costa Rica , San José

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Job Description:

With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers’ expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft’s portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world. The workforce management and planning team is responsible for designing and governing enterprise-wide workforce planning, scheduling frameworks, and resource optimization across a complex, multi-region service delivery ecosystem.

Job Responsibility:

  • Designing and delivering modernized industry ‘best in class’ resource planning services to our global Customer Services and Support SBU’s
  • Utilizing leading tools & processes which drive efficient staffing, resulting in SLA attainment and high customer satisfaction
  • Oversee and validate forecasting outputs, ensuring labor laws & vendor contracts are adhered to & flag risks
  • Continuously improve E2E planning and tooling capabilities whilst driving industry standard outputs

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 6+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement OR equivalent experience
  • Must be fluent in English, both written & verbal
  • 6+ years of workforce and strategic planning experience, with a strong working knowledge of multi-site contact centre operations and job functions for either FTE or BPO based operations

Nice to have:

  • Master's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 8+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 12+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement OR equivalent experience
  • Experience with 24*7 Contact Centre Operations
  • Must be flexible in accommodating stakeholders in varying timezones
  • Understanding and working knowledge of contact center resource calculation methods
  • Experience using database applications to consume large volumes of data and translate to insights
  • Experience with industry standard WFMT applications
  • Ability to work independently in a high productivity and time sensitive environment, proven organisational skills and attention to detail
  • Elevated level of accuracy and flexibility in work assignments, producing a high volume of work promptly, never sacrificing quality of work for quantity of work
  • Ability to manage high pressure situations
  • 5+ years management (e.g., people, project, process, vendor, change) experience
  • Expertise in executive storytelling and presentations
  • Experience with AI technologies and efficiency levers in a contact center environment

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 01, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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