Mgr, Operations

About Accolade
Accolade (Nasdaq: ACCD) provides millions of people and their families with an exceptional healthcare experience that is personal, data driven and value based to help every person live their healthiest life. Accolade solutions combine virtual primary care, mental health support and expert medical opinion services with intelligent technology and best-in-class care navigation. Accolade’s Personalized Healthcare approach puts humanity back in healthcare by building relationships that connect people and their families to the right care at the right time to improve outcomes, lower costs and deliver consumer satisfaction. Accolade consistently receives consumer satisfaction ratings over 90%. For more information, visit accolade.com.

The Mgr, Operations reporting to the Sr Operations Director, is responsible for fostering the growth and development of multiple teams and manages daily operational performance in Prague.This role drives operational effectiveness while meeting Accolade, customer, and member expectations on a continuous basis. This role will interface with multiple leadership stakeholders and operational team members to ensure united delivery on shared operational objectives. You will be leading a new organization with 6+ Supervisors and around 100 employees.

Working hours: 14:00 - 22:30 (Monday- Friday) - this can be changed as soon as the organization is firmly established

A day in the life…

People Leadership:

• Coaching and Development – build & maintain a highly engaged & high performing operational team.

• Ability to accurately assess talent against expectations of the role and cultural engagement.

• Drive high employee engagement and retention by maintaining and creating a positive working environment.

• Conduct daily/weekly one on one meetings with direct reports as well as skip level meetings to provide guidance and direction, provide updates, and build synergy within team.

• Train and develop Supervisors through coaching and mentoring strategies to achieve/exceed customer performance objectives, while maintaining a positive employment environment for operational teams.

• Conduct performance reviews for direct reports

Deliver Operational Service excellence & execution:

• Operational Leadership – Complete accountability of operational delivery all back-office functions

• Daily Review of Key Performance Indicators, to ensure performance goals are on target; create any necessary adjustments as required to meet performance goals.

• Depth in understanding of trends/themes/issues and analysis; develop, implement, and support operating model through determining trends, and creating mitigation strategies, providing recommendations and outline ownership and next steps. This includes realizing expected results of innovation and new strategies.

• Participate in the recruiting process.

• Co-author of the strategy in the future service delivery space

• Assist Sr. Operations Leadership in preparing and/or reviewing weekly, monthly, and quarterly functional summary reports and/or business performance reviews.

• Respond on a timely manner to problems and lead resolution efforts and appropriate corrective action.

• Execute a continuous improvement operating model by identifying opportunities, implementing methods to reduce customer costs, and improve operational performance.

• Support direct reports in identifying training opportunities that support continuous performance improvement and development goals.

• Lead and/or participate in cross-functional teams supporting continuous improvement initiatives that improve performance, leadership skills, morale, technology solutions.

• Be the point of contact for Supervisors in their absence.

What we are looking for…

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education

• Experience with managing leaders and multiple teams is preferred

• 5+ years of relevant, progressive management experience (and demonstrated success):

• Managing a team in a high-touch service environment (preferably with an inbound/outbound telephonic component, shared service delivery centre and/or healthcare, technology-related); including:

  • Motivating team members to high-performance and achievement of specified goal

  • Operational process execution

  • Successful track of record in process automation and optimization (AI implementation)

  • Recognizing and developing talent

• Creating a team environment which results in open communication, behavior consistent with company values, and group inter-dependency

  • Established analytical thinking skills, observational & communication skills, and collaboration.

  • Strong data analytics and problem-solving skills.

  • Exhibiting and instilling a growth mindset

  • Excellent communication skills

  • Demonstrated strong leadership, coaching, and mentoring tactics that are utilized daily towards both individual and team goals

  • Demonstrate resilience and adaptation to change in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

• Professional, self-motivated, enthusiastic demeanor

• Strong organizational and time management skills

While working in Accolade you will enjoy the following benefits:

• 5 weeks of vacation + personal days

• 1 paid day off for your volunteerism per year

• Cell phone and a plan for unlimited personal use as well

• Sodexo Gastro Pass Card with no contribution

• Flexi Pass Card per month or Multisport Card

• FreshPoint fridge with meals & snacks at 30% discoun

• Parental benefits

• Virtual hospital service uLekare.cz

• Ginger Emotional Support app (www.ginger.com)

• Udemy Business Platform for Hard/Soft skills training

• Carrott - support on family forming journey (www.get-carrot.com)

• Office events-workshops, tournaments, competitions, raffles, team building

• Home office and flexible working hours

Accolade is committed to being a company that embraces a hybrid work environment where employees can enjoy the best of both worlds - the flexibility to work from home and the opportunity to have a common place to connect, collaborate, and innovate with others in-person.  Our hybrid work model requires that employees who live within 40 miles of an Accolade office are required to be in the office for at least two days during the work week. Accolade will provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees with disabilities or for a sincerely held religious belief.

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