Job Description
OVERVIEW
If you thrive on creating trusted relationships that provide opportunities to support and improve the lives of others, influencing and collaborating with others to drive change and improvements, we have a career opportunity for you!
In exceptional circumstances (language or other skills scarcity, market availability) a time bound
exception may be requested to relax the following job requirements:
3+ years of experience in supporting enterprise technologies or equivalent may be reduced to no less than 1+ years of experience
Skilled use of the Microsoft Office Suite, e.g. Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc
may be waived, with the expectation that the individual will receive specific training to overcome the deficit
Microsoft Services’ mission is to empower our customers and partners as they realize their fullest potential in a mobile-first, cloud-first world. Key to transformative customer solutions is building and maintaining world-class operations. In Enterprise Services Operations, our charter is to build a people and process capability that enables our sales and delivery teams to execute with confidence and achieve more for our customers. Our priorities are to deliver valuable services and insights, identify and solve for simplification opportunities, and plan and deliver new operational motions to accelerate our digital transformation.
Incident Manager
The Incident Manager (IM) acts as the single commander to work with our Customer Service and Support engineers and our customers to coordinate complex reactive support to resolution and provide insights into operational health opportunities for a set portfolio of accounts. The goal of the IM is to be the Customer Advocate and enable resolution of Reactive Issues with the following key activities:
➢ Represent the customer’s business impact
➢ Support the end to end problem resolution
➢ Problem identification against the case portfolio
As a trusted account team member, the IM owns the positive outcome for our Customer’s Reactive Support Experience journey and develops the right insights for the account team to develop customer operational health conversations.
KEY ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
Relationship Management
Know the customer and understand our customer’s expectations
with their reactive support experience
Focus on critical issues to ensure customer satisfaction
Set proper expectations with customers for support
Proactive management of reactive experience
Acknowledge and respond to customers' requests promptly
Anticipate risk and escalations based on customer context
Escalation Handling
Handle high-Risk escalations and gather/analyze information as needed to support the customer
Understand the cause of the escalation, its business impact, and level of urgency from Customer and other stakeholders
Ensure clear communication channels are established and documented with the customer and enable effective cross group collaboration
Critical Thinking
Work with engineers as needed to investigate the customer issue
further to understand the root cause to drive prevention
Establish a customer obsession approach that puts the customer and the customer operational health in the center
Incident Administration
Monitor reactive cases owned by internal support organizations
Ensure correct case reporting and trending is in place for account team and customer, enabling conversations, planning, and delivery for ongoing customer operational health.
Qualifications
QUALIFICATIONS
Required:
3+ years of experience in supporting enterprise technologies or equivalent
Customer Service experience
Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience
Strong English written and verbal communication skills
Language] upper-intermediate (preferably B2-C1
Positive, energetic, enthusiastic attitude
Strong attention to detail
Excellent at multi-tasking & task prioritization
Skilled use of the Microsoft Office Suite, e.g. Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.
Ability to apply judgement in high pressure situations with at least
external guidance
Strong ability to comprehend written communications
Ability to pass Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening may be required
Preferred:
Understanding of reactive case lifecycle and troubleshooting methodology
Track record in successfully coordinating activities that involve cross-team of internal/external contacts
ITIL Foundation™ certified (or equivalent)
Skills that will make you successful in the role:
¨ Demonstrated aptitude to learn new technologies
¨ Develops and maintains good working relationships with others. Recognizes different values and styles, and respects others' unique characteristics or strengths.
¨ Initiates collaboration with others; invites others to meetings and presentations to share information. Seeks support for collaborative activities from upper management.
¨ Acts confidently in uncertain circumstances; works effectively in ambiguous situations. Demonstrates patience and persistence
¨ Consciously develops influence strategies
¨ Anticipates the reactions of others
¨ Adapts a presentation or discussion to appeal to the interest of others
¨ Takes well thought-out action to achieve a specific impact
¨ Demonstrates an understanding of the impact that his or her behavior and communications has on relationships with customers/peers
¨ Self-motivated, proactive, and customer-centric attitude
¨ Quick learner and willing to adapt to a dynamic working environment
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