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As an Area Support Lead (ASL) you will own Crisis Communications for Small, Medium, Enterprise and Channel (SME&C) customers and partners in your region and liaise with our largest customers in this segment, acting as a trusted advisor and partner for your Regional SME&C Leadership (EVP/CVP/AVP/GM). You’ll be the Commander and Technical Leader during a Service Incident or large scale event, co-ordinating key leaders and decision makers across our Support and Engineering Organisations. You’ll have executive-facing communication skills to restore confidence, and partner with the customer’s Account Team to prevent recurrences through the Customer Engagement Plan to improve and shape the support experience, acting with urgency to produce the best possible outcomes.
Job Responsibility:
Required to be on-call during shifts, including after hours and weekends and available to take ownership of escalations to Senior Leaders, liaising between the customer and Senior Leaders across organizations within Microsoft
Acts as a subject matter expert on best practices to support the customer experience
Crafts and executes executive summaries and identifies patterns across customer issues
Creates strategies to resolve reoccurring or highly sensitive issues in partnership with Area, Support and Product Group leadership
Own Service Incident or crisis response and management in the Area (before, during and after) – ensure understanding of Field roles and responsibilities
Accountable for ensuring the Region/Area is trained
Lead strategic projects designed to improve resolution times, customer satisfaction, and support experience
Provides examples and direction to prioritize efforts to prevent and reduce escalations/crises
Partner with CSU leadership to build and execute plans that improve customer health signals, including reactivity, major incident response plans, proactive recommendations and cloud resiliency
Sponsor key accounts in region in collaboration with Regional CSU leadership, building relationships and trust with our largest accounts and ensuring that their support experience exceeds expectations
Partner with account teams and Area Business Partner through contract renewals and assist in deal shaping, ensuing that customers have the right offerings to ensure their success
Leverages relationships across Regional CSU, Support and Product Groups to remove roadblocks
Establishes and oversees the development of written protocols to ensure customer issues are resolved
Identifies reoccurring roadblocks across the Area and escalates as needed
Owns escalated issues and manages Area/Region escalated customer crises to identify and remove barriers
Ensures existing processes are not a blocker to customer issue resolution and influences the direction of process improvement efforts with a global perspective
Acts as an expert and provides guidance to Support Escalation team members on how to handle moderate to highly complex cases
Support Area and regional leadership and collaborate with the Area Business Partner (ABP) to identify systematic issues and leads process improvement efforts to ensure continuous improvement
Recommend process improvements and support the feedback forums with identified actions
Identifies and builds strategic relationships with internal teams, partners, and communications with senior and executive leadership to resolve issues that are complex in scope
Leverages precision questioning techniques to understand the pain points of the customer experience during Crisis and then proactively addresses the People/Process/Technology blockers identified
Customer engagement – both reactive (emergency) and proactive (sponsorship)
Confidence calls after outage
Involved in service incident (SI) aka outage Crisis and non-outage crisis for specific, strategic customers
Requirements:
11+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR Bachelor's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 6+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR Master's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 4+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR equivalent experience
Crisis Management and C-Suite proven communication capabilities
16+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR Bachelor's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 9+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR Master's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 8+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience OR equivalent experience
Project management experience
Experience working with Microsoft products and services
Knowledge and understanding of Unified Deal Construction and Support a plus