Partner Manager

Disney Disney · Media · London, United Kingdom

Seeking an experienced Partner Manager for Viewer Experience (Customer Support) at Disney Direct to Consumer. This role involves managing daily operations of BPO sites, building strategic relationships with external partners, ensuring excellent customer experience, and driving continuous improvement. Responsibilities include performance monitoring, internal collaboration, partner training, issue resolution, and market analysis.

What you'd actually do

  1. Relationship Management: Regularly communicating with partners, understanding their needs, addressing concerns, and proactively managing expectations to foster strong, long-term relationships ensuring a continuous improvement mindset.
  2. Work with partners to build a strong team culture that embraces shared values and standards, so they deliver a customer experience that represents the Disney brand across the assigned region.
  3. Tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) such as Positive Experience, Issue Resolution, Average Handle Time, After Call Work, Quality and Speed to Answer Rates related to partner performance, identifying areas for improvement, co-developing action plans for improvement, monitoring outliers and collaborating with partners to optimize results across the advocate population.
  4. Working closely with internal teams like Internal Operations, Workforce Management, Launch Readiness, Quality, Training, Communications and PMO to ensure seamless partner integration and alignment with company strategy.
  5. Providing ongoing training and support to partners on BPO services, processes, and systems to ensure their ability to effectively sell and deliver solutions.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years working in high volume customer-facing environment, with operational leadership experience
  • 5+ years operational leadership experience
  • Experience in building and managing internal or external teams
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build rapport with partners
  • Analytical skills to monitor partner performance and identify areas for improvement in driving continuous improvement in operational processes through partner leadership.
  • Project management skills to oversee partnership initiatives
  • Proven ability to lead through influence and advocacy
  • Problem-solving skills for multiple, complex issues including escalations management
  • Able to work in an environment of change and the ability to deliver to tight deadlines

Nice to have

  • 3+ years working in a Partner/Vendor company or managing relationships with BPO Partners
  • Strong business acumen and understanding of the BPO industry