Customer Support Manager (f/m/d) SAP Signavio

What you’ll do

Strategic Responsibilities

• You are responsible for guiding, mentoring, and developing a team to ensure they meet their role expectations and deliver excellent service.
• Lead transformative changes within the team by articulating the reasons behind these changes and demonstrating their relevance to team members.
• Prioritizing the needs of the team and fostering an environment of collaboration, empowerment, and growth.
• Ensure efficient resource allocation within the currently responsible area.
• Encourage appropriate risk-taking in team members in the pursuit of innovation.
• Advise on established processes and tools and monitor that they are reviewed regularly for improvement potential and compliance
• Lead strategic initiatives or projects successfully.
• Run and enhance support coverage on a 24x7 basis
• Build strategic partnerships with key decision-makers in customer & partner organizations.
• Engage with the customer support leadership team

Operational Responsibilities

• Drive operational excellence for our teams
• Ensure process and SLA adherence
• Monitor and analyze support metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Drive queue management improvement processes
• Provide clear and timely feedback to your employees regarding their performance and development.
• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings with the team, connecting and creating trust with them, and ensuring we have a safe environment
• Closely collaborate with our Support QA, to enhance and improve our process landscape
• Instill a customer-centric approach within the team and ensure equitable treatment of all customers, irrespective of their respective segments

Accountability

• Manage resources, ensuring business-critical and innovative results
• Build action plans and make operational decisions on policies, tactics, and resources critical to the function's business success to ensure delivery against strategy of the function or team
• Ensure 24x7 support for smooth business operation
• Develop and be accountable for annual goals, set to follow the global strategy
• Orchestrate the activities of your team, from daily operations to working on initiatives

Communication

• Encourage and develop the team to cooperate and to freely express their opinions
• Formulate clear objectives, strategies, and work assignments
• Communicate pleasant and unpleasant messages in a timely and constructive manner to the team
• Listen openly and attentively to fully understand ideas and opinions within the team
• Prioritize the growth and well-being of the team, demonstrating a commitment to fostering a supportive and collaborative work environment.
• Appreciate and recognize the team members' progress and success

What you ll bring

• 5+ years of experience of leading a customer support team
• Ideally, being familiar with Servant leadership
• Possesses robust experience in collaborating effectively with geographically dispersed, global teams
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience in working with customer success and development
• Knowledge of process management
• People-centric mindset Skills and Competencies
• Strong organizational and time-management focus
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple responsibilities
• Managing and resolving conflicts within the team
• Proven ability to build meaningful relationships with various functions
• Ability to manage customer escalations
• Ability to drive engineer development plans
• Always remain level-headed
• Strong skills in communicating ideas / feedback to upper management constructively
• An unwavering passion for customer service, demonstrating an ardent dedication to understanding and addressing customer needs

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