Manager Customer Support
Manager Customer Support EMEA
Location: Cork, Ireland (office-based).
The Manager, Customer Support role is responsible for all aspects of customer post-sales support to our customers and partners. The support team is responsible for handling support requests using the follow-the-sun model in the EMEA region and provide support for other geographies such as APAC and Americas requesting assistance. As a Support Manager, your passion for exceeding customer expectations will flourish as you lead a team of high caliber Support Engineers in delivering exceptional customer experience to our global customer base. You will be responsible for the management, professional growth and development of the team. As a key member of the leadership team you are also responsible for delighting our customers, developing excellent staff and achieving both tactical and strategic business development objectives. This role requires a high level of professional communication to all stakeholders.
The Manager of Customer Support is also responsible for short and long-term performance management of his/her direct reports, including managing individual operational indicators, written performance reviews, and career planning.
Responsibilities include:
Implement the service delivery strategy defined by the organisation.
Manage the business and operational excellence of our customer support organisation
Ensure that quality and service delivery standards are met and exceeded
Collaborate with other organisation such as Sales, Marketing, Operations, Engineering, QA, and IT to improve overall customer satisfaction objectives
Manage the support operations and performance activities, customer satisfaction
Drive operational improvements as it relates to customer satisfaction
Represent the Services functions as necessary on product teams and in various other Rubrik decision-making forums
Evaluate and develop staff
Manages the activities of a group/department of technical support engineers and leads
Closely monitoring top support issues after product launch, identifying gaps across all Support tiers worldwide in support tools / resources needed to better support new features.
Improve processes and use automation and AI tooling to raise team productivity and customer experience.
Collect and analyse support centre metrics to guide decisions about product and support quality
Handle escalations, initiate conference calls, drive escalations to positive closure by providing timely status update all the stake holders
Set Goals (KPI) and Review team performance daily, weekly, quarterly and half yearly
Experience with phone home and proactive support best practices
Education & Experience
A Bachelor’s degree in any discipline
5+ years in technical customer support, with 2+ years managing a support or technical team.
General Skills
Excellent written & verbal communication skills
Planning, Decision Making, Staffing, Process Improvement
Excellent inter-personal and teamwork skills
Should ensure high level of quality in process deliverables
Self-driven, proactive, hardworking, team-player with a good sense of humour
Should be open to work in any shift timing
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