Manager, Technical Support Engineering-Industry Cloud

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Customer Success

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• Overall work-experience of 11+ years, Strong people management expertise of at least 6 years in technical support management roles.
• Strong Experience in managing technical support professionals.
• Experience with support tools and phone systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong team player with a service-oriented attitude and a keen focus on enhancing customer experience.
• Continuously raises the bar on what defines customer service delivery.
• Excellent situational awareness in handling objections in dynamic customer environments.
• Leading cross-functional collaboration across global teams
• Self-motivated, takes initiative, assumes ownership and runs programs with minimal supervision
• Drive stakeholder engagement across peers and senior management
• Ability to address and effectively engage large audiences and hold their interest
• Strong Executive presence and excellent convincing skills; ability to hold own point of view in tough conversations
• Provide guidance, mentoring, training and delegate responsibilities to managers enabling their professional growth and development
• Ability to successfully communicate and coordinate with departments across the organization including Sales, Consulting, CSM, QA, Program Management, and Product Management
• Strong Escalation management experience with multiple stakeholders including customers and product teams
• Demonstrate strong work ethic and advanced organizational skills
• Ability to develop and deliver creative business solutions for complex problems
• Ability to attract, hire and retain high-performing support professionals
• Ability to work on competing priorities under tight timelines and delivery pressures. Analytical bent of mind to understand data and derive actionable insights

• We are a 24 hrs 7 days a week 365 days center and hence would need candidates who are open to work any shift based on business requirements including Saturday and/or Sunday.
• Manage a support team to achieve business objectives including the attainment of targets for customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, service levels, resolution time, and project deadlines. • Set team goals in alignment with Global Support objectives. Assist direct reports in the definition and attainment of individual goals
• Ensure that direct reports have the resources, information, and processes necessary to deliver effective technical solutions to our customers
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality technical and soft-skills training for direct reports
• Deliver performance reviews for all direct reports and provide regular feedback on performance in terms of agreed upon performance and employee development goals
• Effectively represent the Support department on cross-organizational teams to deliver on organizational objectives.
• Manage workflows and schedules for direct reports and ensure adequate workload coverage
• Deliver regular reports that provide qualitative and quantitative descriptions of business performance
• Manage key processes including FAQ analysis, case reviews, and customer feedback analysis
• Develop and maintain Support procedures and policies
• Advocate for customers and define ways to continually add value to the customer experience
• Serve as a manager, mentor, knowledge resource, and escalation point for support agents; Build credibility and trust within the support group
• Foster and facilitate the professional growth and development of team members
• Empower and install confidence in team members to enable them grow
• Flexibility to work in staggered shifts, where weekly-offs are not Saturday and Sunday but two consecutive days from the other five weekdays
• Work as Duty Manager on rotation or as per business needs handling customer escalations and priority issues
• Take up and deliver on any other responsibilities as assigned from time to time by reporting manager/support management