AVP, Operational Learning & Performance

Locations:  Toronto, CA or Waterloo, CA or Montreal, CA

Position Overview  Mandate  The Assistant Vice President, Contact Center Transformation & AI Enablement will lead a sizeable, cross-border organization focused on modernizing service operations. The role brings together contact center transformation, workforce management, quality, operational knowledge, performance enablement, and targeted learning to improve how work is planned, delivered, measured, and continuously improved.
This executive will shape the operating model for an increasingly digital and AI-enabled environment. Priorities include improving capacity and demand alignment, accelerating adoption of automation and interaction analytics, strengthening frontline execution, reducing avoidable service defects, and helping leaders translate real-time operational insight into better customer, employee, and productivity outcomes.
Principal Accountabilities   Define and execute a multi-year transformation agenda for complex, high-volume service operations across multiple locations and delivery channels.
Redesign operating practices, roles, workflows, and governance to support greater use of automation, artificial intelligence, self-service, and advanced interaction analytics.
Assess current-state performance and identify opportunities to improve service levels, customer effort, productivity, quality, cost, and employee effectiveness.
Lead implementation of new capabilities while maintaining service continuity and disciplined operational control.
Workforce Management & Capacity Optimization   Strengthen forecasting, capacity planning, scheduling, intraday management, and performance routines across a distributed operating environment.
Connect demand, staffing, skills, and workload data to support better resource decisions and more resilient service delivery.
Partner with operations leaders to address capacity constraints, volume volatility, shrinkage, adherence, and productivity challenges.
Use operational scenarios and performance data to inform hiring, location, sourcing, and deployment decisions.
AI, Analytics & Digital Enablement   Advance practical use of AI and analytics across customer interactions, quality monitoring, knowledge access, coaching, and operational decision-making.
Establish governance, calibration, and controls so automated insights are reliable, explainable, and useful to frontline and senior leaders.
Translate data from multiple operational sources into clear priorities for intervention, investment, and process improvement.
Build adoption plans that help managers and employees incorporate new digital capabilities into everyday work.
Performance, Quality & Frontline Effectiveness   Modernize the quality and performance framework, moving toward risk-based monitoring and more comprehensive insight into customer interactions.
Give leaders actionable visibility into performance at the operation, team, role, and employee level.
Connect quality findings, customer feedback, productivity results, and workforce data to identify root causes rather than isolated symptoms.
Improve manager coaching and performance routines so interventions are focused, timely, and measurable.
Operational Readiness, Knowledge & Capability   Ensure frontline teams are prepared for new products, processes, policies, technologies, and operating-model changes before implementation.
Oversee the operational knowledge framework, including governance, content ownership, maintenance, and digital access at the point of need.
Align onboarding, role readiness, upskilling, and reinforcement with the specific performance requirements of contact center and service operations.
Use early-tenure, proficiency, quality, and productivity data to refine readiness and capability interventions.
Lead a large, geographically dispersed, multidisciplinary team spanning operational transformation and enablement capabilities.
Build a commercially minded, evidence‑based culture focused on execution, measurable outcomes, and continuous improvement.
Partner with senior leaders across operations, technology, customer strategy, data and analytics, risk, human resources, and transformation.
Create shared accountability for service performance, workforce capability, adoption, and customer outcomes.
Candidate Profile   At least 15 years of progressive experience in contact center operations, workforce management, operational transformation, shared services, business process outsourcing, or a comparable high-volume service…