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The GetHelp Support Escalation Manager is responsible for handling customer/partner escalations that come to the team through various internal channels. Escalations will require direct customer interaction with the goal of identifying and resolving issues related to Microsoft technology and services, ensuring they are resolved within established guidelines/policies. These escalations are some of our most challenging and difficult customer issues and will at times require dealing with highly sensitive customers and situations. Support Escalation Managers are highly motivated people with empathy, passion, integrity, and a knack for investigation & problem solving. Support Escalation Managers represent Microsoft by providing world class service and displaying our core principles in all their work. In addition to the above, the Senior Support Escalation Manager plays a part in mentoring and coaching other team members, and work extensively with our service delivery organization for situations that require additional local language or deep technical skills.
Job Responsibility:
Owns escalated issues and manages account-aligned customer incidents 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 informal guidance to Support Escalation team members on how to handle moderate to highly complex cases
Leverages relationships across teams to remove roadblocks
Establishes and oversees the development of written protocols to ensure customer issues are resolved
Identifies and builds strategic relationships with internal teams, partners, and communications with senior leadership to resolve issues that are complex in scope
Manages customer and field expectations around issue response and represents the company independently
Ensures customer and MSFT internal stakeholders stay informed on the response and resolution status of customer issues
Communicates and influences internally to drive faster issue resolution
Leads strategic projects designed to improve resolution times, customer satisfaction, and support experience
Leads inter-regions, cross-regions, cross-group, or account team unit (ATU) initiatives by creating plans and managing relationships with other business units to improve the customer support experience for a group of customers or a specific region/area
Acts as a subject matter expert on best practices to support the customer experience
Reviews status updates to customers and provides informal guidance to others on communicating with internal stakeholders through various channels of communication for highly sensitive or difficult issues
Proactively coordinates resources and establishes relationships to drive opportunities within the team and across stakeholder groups in postmortem discussions to remediate future issues
Acts as an internal expert to resolve longer running, sensitive, or escalated issues or acts as a primary contact for escalated issues on behalf of less experienced IC levels
Identifies and builds relationships with various internal and external teams and senior leaders to resolve customer issues
Leads strategic projects
Informally provides coaching, mentorship, or support to less experienced Support Escalation Managers to resolve customer issues
Reviews postmortem executive summaries and identifies patterns across customer issues
Creates strategies to resolve reoccurring or highly sensitive issues in partnership with leadership
Surfaces feedback from the team and drives collaboration across functions to identify systematic issues and leads process breakdowns to ensure resolution/progress
Creates strategy for process improvements and leads project or workgroup to improve internal processes
Owns and leads relationships with outsource vendor to resolve issues and foster positive cultural and behavioral changes
Requirements:
Extensive experience in technology industry, customer service, or related experience
Project management experience
Experience working with Microsoft products and services