Real Time Analyst

Optus is an Australian telecommunications company delivering more than 11 million services to our customers every day across mobile broadband and digital solutions.

Join our Workforce Management team and play a pivotal role in keeping our contact centre operations running at their best. As a Real Time Analyst youll be at the centre of what matters mostensuring we have the right people in the right place at the right time to deliver amazing customer experiences.

What Youll Do

• Monitor real-time performance across multiple contact centre channels and keep a close eye on key metrics like adherence AHT occupancy and service levels.
• Manage intraday changes including leave coaching training outages and unexpected spikes in demand.
• Partner with Workforce Planning Operations and Enablement teams to align staffing with demand.
• Provide hourly updates forwardlooking forecasts and insights that help leaders make fast informed decisions.
• Maintain and optimise break schedules and offphone activities to minimise service impacts.
• Build and enhance real-time dashboards in Tableau and Power BI.
• Support business continuity during critical incidents or service disruptions.
• Participate in daily huddles and share insights that improve performance and operational awareness.
• Contribute to continuous improvement across the broader WFM function.

What makes you perfect

• Experience in contact centres or workforce management (2 years preferred).
• Strong analytical mindset with excellent attention to detail.
• Skilled in WFM tools (e.g. NICE IEX Genesys Verint) Excel Tableau and Power BI.
• Confident communicator with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders across the business.
• Calm under pressure and able to make quick informed decisions.
• Proactive curious and passionate about optimising people processes and performance.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with rotating onshore coverage between 7am7pm Monday Friday.

Whats in it for you

• Competitive remuneration and employee discounts. Make life easier (and more affordable) with $80 monthly credit and 25% off Optus products and unique shopping discounts with our retail partners.
• Flexible working arrangements with opportunities to work three days in the office two days remote or home.
• Vibrant and collaborative office campus that includes cafes convenience store chill out zones GP post office gym and on-site childcare centre.
• Competitive leave policies including additional Connected days to focus on culture family health community or whatevers important to you.
• We support growing families with inclusive carer-neutral paid Parental Leave of up to 16 weeks.
• Direct your own development and build future-ready skills with Optus Us industry-focused micro-credentials developed with La Trobe and Macquarie Universities.
• Build meaningful connections through employee-led networks and diversity initiatives including Culture Connect Elevate Women Disability Network and Express Yourself (LGBTQIA).
• Put your wellbeing first with free access to counselling and support services 24/7 in-person by phone SMS or video.

At Optus we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying yes to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers including individuals from diverse gender cultural and linguistic backgrounds individuals with a disability individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA community individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We also want to do our best to make our recruitment process inclusive. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process please email or call. Were here to help. When you contact us please advise your preferred method of contact and we will be in touch within 48 hours.

For more information on Diversity Inclusion & Belonging at Optus please visit Experience:

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