Wise

Financial Services

WFMOperationsPartnerLead

São Paulo, Brazil FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“WFM Operations Partner Lead at Wise. Skills: Workforce Management (WFM), Operations Partnership, Discipline Guardian, Data-Driven Execution, Service, Cost, and Scalability Outcomes Protection, Stakeholder Transition, Governance Framework, Decision-Quality Coaching, Scenario Steering. primary interface between Workforce Management and Operations. ensuring that WFM disciplines are consistently understood, adopted, and applied in operational decision-making”

What You'll Achieve.

protect service, cost, and scalability outcomes; ensure that WFM insights are actually adopted and applied; hit our SLAs efficiently as the company grows; improve their decision-quality

Industry & Context.

Financial Services

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

WFM disciplines are consistently understood, adopted, and applied in operational decision-making, acts as a business partner and discipline guardian, translating WFM insights into clear operational trade-offs, constructively challenging decisions that undermine workforce plans, shift Operations from reactive, short-term workforce decisions toward planned, data-driven execution, ensuring intraday, scheduling, and capacity principles are applied consistently to protect service, cost, and scalability outcomes, focus on these high-priority initiatives immediately upon joining, Stakeholder Transition: Moving Operations leaders away from "gut-feel" staffing decisions toward the Service Scale operating principles and WFM playbooks, Governance Framework: Auditing and surfacing recurring "exceptions" or manual overrides in scheduling to identify where WFM discipline is breaking down, Decision-Quality Coaching: Running "mentor clinics" for Intraday and Scheduling Specialists to help them think about long-term trade-offs rather than just short-term fixes, Scenario Steering: Facilitating structured "What-If" conversations with Ops leads regarding upcoming demand spikes or staffing constraints, ensuring they understand confidence ranges rather than just "point estimates."

Nice to Have

individual contributor (IC) role with a "capability multiplier" mandate, provide dotted-line mentorship and coaching to Intraday and Scheduling Specialists to improve their decision-quality

What You'll Do.

primary interface between Workforce Management and Operations

ensuring that WFM disciplines are consistently understood

and applied in operational decision-making

acts as a business partner and discipline guardian

translating WFM insights into clear operational trade-offs

constructively challenging decisions that undermine workforce plans

shift Operations from reactive

short-term workforce decisions toward planned

data-driven execution

and capacity principles are applied consistently to protect service

and scalability outcomes

serves as a mentor and capability multiplier for Intraday and Scheduling Specialists

supporting their professional development and decision quality through guidance

focus on Stakeholder Transition: Moving Operations leaders away from "gut-feel" staffing decisions toward the Service Scale operating principles and WFM playbooks

focus on Governance Framework: Auditing and surfacing recurring "exceptions" or manual overrides in scheduling to identify where WFM discipline is breaking down

focus on Decision-Quality Coaching: Running "mentor clinics" for Intraday and Scheduling Specialists to help them think about long-term trade-offs rather than just short-term fixes

focus on Scenario Steering: Facilitating structured "What-If" conversations with Ops leads regarding upcoming demand spikes or staffing constraints

ensuring they understand confidence ranges rather than just "point estimates."

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

primary interface between Workforce Management and Operations; acts as a business partner; constructively challenging decisions that undermine workforce plans; serves as a mentor and capability multiplier for Intraday and Scheduling Specialists; supporting their professional development and decision quality through guidance, coaching, and feedback; facilitating structured "What-If" conversations with Ops leads

Full Job Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed. Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money. As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere. More about [our mission](https://wise.jobs/our-mission) and [what we offer](https://wise.jobs/what-we-offer). We’re looking for a Workforce Management Operations Partner Lead to join our Operational team in our São Paulo office! The WFM Operations Partner Lead is the primary interface between Workforce Management and Operations, responsible for ensuring that WFM disciplines are consistently understood, adopted, and applied in operational decision-making. This role does not execute tactical WFM activities such as intraday moves, schedule creation, or capacity modelling. Instead, it acts as a business partner and discipline guardian, translating WFM insights into clear operational trade-offs and constructively challenging decisions that undermine workforce plans. Your Mission * Your mission is to shift Operations from reactive, short-term workforce decisions toward planned, data-driven execution, ensuring intraday, scheduling, and capacity principles are applied consistently to protect service, cost, and scalability outcomes. * This role is not accountable for forecast accuracy, schedule creation, or intraday execution, which remain the responsibility of WFM execution teams. * In addition, the WFM Operations Partner serves as a mentor and capability multiplier for Intraday and Scheduling Specialists, supporting their professional development and decision quality through guidance, coaching, and feedback, while maintaining a dotted-line connection rather than direct people management accountability. ## Qualifications This r

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