Contact Centre Manager (NQF 5)
This qualification, shaped by the expertise of the Contact Centre Management Group (CCMG), elevates South Africa’s Contact Centre industry to global prominence.
- 18 - 24 Months
- 285 Credits
- NQF Level 5
- SAQA ID: 99687
Developed with the expertise of the Contact Centre Management Group (CCMG), the recognised authority for Contact Centre leadership, this programme builds the leadership capacity required for both inbound and outbound operations as well as outsourcing entities.
It supports organizations by advancing employees in operational roles, equipping them with structured leadership competencies that enable progression into managerial positions and control functions within Contact Centre Management.
Accreditations
Related Qualifications
Qualification Objectives
- Manage financial aspects of a contact centre operation
- Lead and develop high-performing teams
- Set operational targets and standards
- Provide team leadership and disciplinary oversight
- Oversee personnel management functions
- Manage customer and supplier relationships
- Assure quality standards and service delivery
- Optimise processes and technology for efficiency
Who will benefit?
This course is ideal for contact centre managers, team leaders, supervisors, and professionals aspiring to leadership roles within contact centre operations.
- Contact Centre Managers
- Team Leaders
- Supervisors
Qualification Modules
Knowledge Modules
- Introductory studies for Contact Centre Managers
- Communication
- Operational Supervision
- Operational Management
- People Management
- Industrial Relations Management
- Contact Centre Technology, Systems and Processes
- Contact Centre Quality Management
- Supplier management
- Customer management
- Financial management concepts
Practical Skill Modules
- Provide budgeting services
- Read and interpret financial documents
- Maintain productive and effective work teams
- Develop operational plans and manage performance levels
- Manage service-level agreements
- Supervise personnel
- Attend to personnel planning, management and control
- Attend to industrial relations management and control
- Attend to performance and training management and control
- Administer supplier service level agreements
- Attend to customer/client/supplier communication
- Assure the output of the service delivery by agents
- Evaluate MIS reports and ensure system efficiency
- Manage a customer contact process
- Manage process and technology improvement projects
Work Experience Module
- Attend to standard financial control procedures in a contact centre environment
- Maintain productive and effective work teams for an operational unit in a contact centre
- Attend to operational target- and standard-setting processes in a contact centre environment
- Attend to team leadership and first-line discipline for an operational unit in a contact centre at supervisory level
- Attend to personnel management processes in a contact centre environment within the delegated functions of line management
- Attend to customer and supplier relations management processes in a contact centre environment
- Assure quality standards in a contact centre environment
- Attend to process and technology efficiency management processes in a contact centre environment
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