SME Scheduler Senior Analyst - 6156572
Accenture•San Francisco, CA
fulltime
Research
2+ years
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Role Overview: The Scheduler Lead provides critical operational leadership and governance for all scheduling activities supporting the XR Data Program. This role is accountable for ensuring accurate, timely, and efficient participant scheduling across all sites and geographies, aligned to volume targets, site capacity, and proctor availability. As a key leader, you will oversee scheduler teams, establish standardized processes, and serve as the primary escalation point for complex challenges, priority requests, and systemic capacity constraints. This role is vital to meeting service levels, maximizing utilization, and enabling the predictable delivery of data collection volumes.
Key Responsibilities:
Operational Leadership: Lead and coordinate day-to-day scheduling operations across all XR data collection sites and participant types, including internal, external, and pilot groups.
Governance & Standards: Own scheduling governance, standards, and operating procedures to ensure consistent execution across different geographies and teams.
Strategic Alignment: Partner with Proctor Leads, Site Leads, and Program Management to align participant scheduling plans with site capacity, proctor staffing, and forecasted demand.
Escalation Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for complex scheduling issues, conflicts, high-priority requests, and rapid-turnaround collection needs.
Performance Monitoring: Monitor and report on scheduling KPIs, including fill rates, utilization, no-shows, cancellations, and reschedule trends.
Continuous Improvement: Drive initiatives to reduce scheduling friction, improve participant experience, and increase overall schedule reliability.
Team Development: Ensure scheduler teams are trained, compliant with protocols, and equipped with the tools needed to support evolving study requirements.
Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate with recruiting, quality, and data teams to address systemic constraints impacting volume delivery or scheduling accuracy.
People Management: Provide structured coaching, feedback, and performance input for Scheduler team members in alignment with the staffing model.
Growth Planning: Support planning activities for ramp-ups, pilots, and new site launches by defining scheduling assumptions and capacity models
Onsite at the Client office is required for this role.
Basic Qualifications:
Minimum 2 years of work experience
Advanced Scheduling: Expertise in capacity planning across multi-site operations.
Workforce Alignment: Ability to align demand with operational constraints.
Operational Leadership: Strong team management and leadership capabilities.
Stakeholder Communication: Clear and confident communication with cross-functional stakeholders.
Decisive Problem-Solving: Ability to solve problems effectively under time and volume pressure.
Strategic Balance: Ability to balance participant experience with operational efficiency.
Mentorship: A coaching mindset dedicated to developing scheduler capability.
Analytics: Proficiency in KPI tracking, reporting, and trend analysis.
Process Design: Skilled in process definition, standardization, and governance.
System Knowledge: Experience with participant scheduling systems and databases.
High School Diploma or GED
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We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 04/05/2026.
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