General Motors

Global Command Center Lead

General Motors • $100K — $120K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Operations Management, Business Administration, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 5+ years supporting contact center or customer service environments.
  • 2+ years leading, coaching, and developing a team preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience with workforce management and CRM platforms (NICE IEX, Salesforce, CXone).
  • Experience in change management and operational readiness efforts with stakeholder influence.
  • Proven ability to innovate operational frameworks and improve customer experience.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor workforce performance and staffing levels to achieve operational goals.
  • Analyze real-time metrics to identify trends and recommend improvements.
  • Partner with workforce management and external providers on staffing strategies.
  • Coordinate incident management during operational disruptions and communicate impacts.
  • Serve as a communication hub across business and technology teams.
  • Develop and enhance operational processes and playbooks for business continuity.
  • Support product and technology implementations through planning and readiness activities.

Benefits

  • Flexible scheduling to accommodate business needs, including evenings and weekends.
  • Opportunity to work in a dynamic, global 24/7 operational environment.
Full Job Description

Job Description

The Role

The Command Center Lead plays a critical role in ensuring seamless customer and operational experiences by monitoring and analyzing real-time business performance across multiple customer support channels. This role leverages workforce management tools, operational data, and established playbooks to identify risks, optimize staffing strategies, and support service delivery objectives.

Acting as a central coordination point during operational disruptions, technical incidents, and business-critical events, the Command Center Lead partners closely with internal teams, external service providers, and senior stakeholders to drive issue resolution, maintain business continuity, and communicate operational impacts. The role also supports continuous improvement initiatives by identifying trends, recommending solutions, and enhancing processes that improve efficiency, scalability, and customer outcomes.

The Global Command Center supports customers, dealers, and internal teams across multiple regions 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This position requires schedule flexibility to support business needs, including evenings weekends, holidays, and participation in an on-call rotation.

What You9ll Do

  • Monitor workforce performance and staffing levels to support operational goals and exceptional customer experiences.
  • Analyze real-time and daily operational metrics to identify trends, mitigate risks, and recommend actions to improve service and productivity.
  • Partner with workforce management teams and external service providers to support staffing strategies, schedule adherence, and real-time operational needs.
  • Coordinate incident management activities, supporting issue resolution, stakeholder communications, and escalation processes during operational disruptions.
  • Serve as a central point of contact for operational communications, facilitating collaboration across business and technology teams.
  • Develop, maintain, and enhance operational processes, procedures, and playbooks to support business continuity and consistent execution.
  • Support the implementation of new products, services, technologies, and business initiatives through operational planning and readiness activities.
  • Identify opportunities to improve operational frameworks, tools, and workflows to drive efficiency, scalability, and customer outcomes.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

  • Bachelor's degree in Operations Management, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 5+ years of experience supporting contact center, customer service, workforce management, or customer experience environments.
  • 2+ years of experience leading, coaching, and developing a team highly preferred
  • Ability to work daytime or evening hours, including weekends and holidays, based on business needs.
  • Demonstrated experience using workforce management, customer relationship management, and contact center technology platforms (e.g., NICE IEX, Salesforce, CXone, CCPulse).
  • Demonstrated experience leading change management and operational readiness efforts, influencing stakeholders and driving adoption of new processes, technologies, and ways of working.
  • Proven experience identifying opportunities to innovate and improve operational frameworks, translating ideas into scalable solutions that enhance productivity and customer experience.

What Can Give You a Competitive Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)

  • Experience supporting customer experience programs and partnering with external service providers.
  • Proficiency using Google Workspace applications.
  • Experience leveraging artificial intelligence and automation tools to improve productivity, streamline workflows, and enhance operational efficiency.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional stakeholders through incident response, operational escalations, and issue resolution.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex data, identify trends, and develop innovative actionable business recommendations.
  • Experience presenting operational insights, risks, and recommendations to senior leaders and key stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to build collaborative partnerships across business functions and external partners to achieve operational and staffing objectives.
  • Demonstrated success leading process improvement initiatives that enhance operational efficiency, scalability, and customer experience.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, exercise sound judgment, and drive continuous improvement.

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).

This role is categorized as onsite. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location on a full-time basis.

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

About General Motors

General Motors Company engages in the manufacture and sale of cars and trucks in the United States, China, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. It offers sedans, crossovers, sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, coupes, sports/convertibles and hybrid vehicles, hatchbacks/wagons, and vans, as well as mini cars in India. The company also provides parts and accessories, such as iPod and MP3 compatibility, mobility accessories, performance parts, AC parts and services, and merchandise. In addition, it offers vehicle safety, security, and information services. The company provides used vehicles. It offers its products through dealers and distributors. General Motors Company was formerly known as NGMCO, Inc. and changed its name to General Motors Company in July 2009. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Detroit, Michigan. It operates manufacturing facilities in India, the United States, and Canada. General Motors Company operates as a subsidiary of the United States Department of The Treasury. General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker, and is currently among the world's largest automakers by vehicle unit sales. General Motors acts in most countries outside the USA via wholly-owned subsidiaries but operates in China through 10 joint ventures. GM's OnStar subsidiary provides vehicle safety, security, and information services. In 2009, General Motors shed several brands, closing Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer, and emerged from a government-backed Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2010, GM made an initial public offering IPOs to date and returned to profitability later that year.

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Join the dynamic team at General Motors, a global leader in automotive innovation and technology. At General Motors, we offer unparalleled job opportunities that propel your career forward while contributing to a legacy of engineering excellence.

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Size
157,000 employees
Market Cap
$46.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
$6.4 billion
Founded
1908
5 Year Trend
-3.2%
Revenue
$122.4 billion
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