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Mohammed Shahid Anwar

Mohammed Shahid Anwar

Assistant Manager - Workforce & Operations
Mumbai

Summary

Results-driven Workforce & Operations professional with 15+ years of experience in managing teams, optimizing staffing strategies, enhancing operational efficiency, and ensuring exceptional customer service delivery in contact center environments. Skilled in forecasting, scheduling and capacity planning using NICE IEX, AVAYA, and Alvaria. Proven record of leading high-performing teams, driving service excellence, and improving operational strategies to boost productivity, customer satisfaction, and organizational profitability.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certificates

Work History

Assistant Manager

Firstsource Solutions
08.2024 - Current

Business Partner - Comcast Corp :: US Chat and Voice Process

  • Spearheading a 14-member Workforce & MIS team (12 RTAs, 2 MIS Executives, and 2 Team Leaders) across Mumbai and Hyderabad, ensuring optimal staffing, real-time efficiency, and reporting for a US ISP account spanning 4 LOBs and 1,200+ employees.
  • Design and implement resource models, forecasts, and scheduling strategies to meet client requirements and optimize profitability.
  • Align workforce plans with business goals and budget constraints.
  • Identify and address behavioral and operational issues (e.g., schedule adherence, utilization, productivity) through continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Partner with GMs, Operations Managers, and Clients to ensure contracted service levels are achieved and resolve delivery issues.
  • Develop budget assumptions, future resource requirements, and capacity (FTE & space) plans to support training, recruitment, and accurate client billing.
  • Provide actionable insights to operations leadership for continuous improvement.

Process Leader

Firstsource
01.2017 - 07.2024

Business Partner - Comcast Corp :: US Chat Process

  • Motivating, developing, counseling and appraising team/members so that their individual and team performance meets the required standard of the business.
  • Floor walking regularly to supervise, coordinate and monitor the activities of advisors/SMEs to ensure prompt, courteous and accurate response to customers.
  • Tracking and analysis of performance metrics to identify trends and address performance gaps by formulating action plans and follow-ups to bridge the shortfall and continuous improvement in underperforming KPIs.
  • Providing guidance and support to the team, including training, feedback, coaching, and performance evaluations, empowering employees with the necessary skills and knowledge to perform their roles effectively.

Team Leader

Concentrix
06.2015 - 06.2016

Business Partner - Hewlett Packard :: US Voice Process

  • Managed a team of 20 associates, ensuring that they give the right resolution to the customer and provide superlative customer experience on every call.
  • Led NPS, FCR, Rev-Gen, AHT, production hours, idle %, and absenteeism on a real-time basis.
  • Conducting regular audits to maintain high service quality.
  • Organized daily and weekly team meetings to update the associates on any process changes, quality issues and team SLAs.

Team Manager

Sutherland
04.2012 - 06.2015

Business Partner - AT&T Inc :: US Voice Process

  • Handled a team of 12 CSAs and motivated them to achieve the team's KPIs (Client Targets and Quality Parameters).
  • Monitored team's performance and coached them to enhance their performance.
  • Handled any escalation that an advisor was unable to handle, solved process related queries, complex issues and grievances of the customers.
  • Managed team's shrinkage and contributed towards low attrition numbers.

Team Leader

Tech Mahindra
08.2010 - 04.2012

Business Partner - British Telecom :: UK Voice Process

Team Leader

Wipro
09.2008 - 05.2010

Business Partner - Dell Technologies :: US Voice Process

Technical Support Advisor

Wipro
06.2006 - 09.2008

Business Partner - Dell Technologies :: US Voice Process

Education

PGDBM (Marketing) -

NMIMS
Mumbai
07.2020 - 06.2022

B.Com (Hons) -

Vidyasagar University
Kolkata
05.2002 - 04.2005

Skills

Forecasting & Resource Planning

Accomplishments

Awarded Best WFM Manager – Q3 FY 2025


Recognized for successfully managing a 30% operational ramp-up, adding 215 FTEs across 4 Lines of Business (LOBs) for Comcast. Scaled workforce from 706 to 921 FTEs between Q2 and Q3 FY 2025, ensuring seamless capacity planning, schedule alignment, and SLA adherence during rapid expansion.


Implemented an AI-driven platform – Q2 FY 2025


Partnered with the Enterprise Transformation team to design and implement an AI-driven platform that automated critical RTA functions—including attendance tracking, break planning, queue monitoring, login/logout compliance, and shrinkage reporting—resulting in cutting manual effort by ~40%, improving accuracy and compliance, reducing costs, and enabling RTAs to focus on strategic, value-added tasks.

Certification

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified, TUV-SUD

Timeline

Certification in WFM MIS

11-2024

Assistant Manager

Firstsource Solutions
08.2024 - Current

Certificate Course in Advance MS Excel and PowerPoint

11-2020

PGDBM (Marketing) -

NMIMS
07.2020 - 06.2022

Certificate Course in Digital Marketing

08-2019

Process Leader

Firstsource
01.2017 - 07.2024

Team Leader

Concentrix
06.2015 - 06.2016

Team Manager

Sutherland
04.2012 - 06.2015

Team Leader

Tech Mahindra
08.2010 - 04.2012

Team Leader

Wipro
09.2008 - 05.2010

Technical Support Advisor

Wipro
06.2006 - 09.2008

B.Com (Hons) -

Vidyasagar University
05.2002 - 04.2005
Mohammed Shahid AnwarAssistant Manager - Workforce & Operations