Escalation Manager Job Description
Escalation Manager Duties & Responsibilities
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Escalation Manager Job Description
- Develop trusted relationships with the leadership teams across the organization
- Facilitate and lead resolution of complex problems
- Drive Problem Prevention - Some issues may require long-term management, due to repeated or systemic problems
- Responsibility for accounts that require long-term technical escalation management
- Manages unit P&L, exercises expense control, and maximizes revenue in compliance with corporate guidelines
- Approve all paging/email communications from NEC, prior to sending
- Controls and directs internal resources in terms of setting time requirements and expectations
- The main responsibility of an escalation manager is to bring order, structure, and focused management attention to the customer's problems in order to gain complete consumer satisfaction
- Prioritize and manage escalated issues affecting our products for multiple customers to successful resolution
- Understand how to analyze and correlate technical data related to incidents, problems, changes and other aspects of Cloud Operations
- 5+ years of global escalation management experience
- Experience with multi-vendor product escalations
- Experience managing teams of cross-functional technical and non-technical resources to produce robust solutions for escalated customers
- Person must have exceptional writing and oral communication skills – be able to synthesize complex and confusing information into crisp exec summaries for a variety of audiences
- Strong knowledge of Regulations, FDA Regulations, including but not limited to Medical Device, Biologic, and small molecule cGMPs, DEA, MHRA, HPRA, and EMA
- Minimum 2 years of experience managing AirWatch
Escalation Manager Job Description
- Manage the analysis, selection and assignment of escalated, critical and flagged accounts on a global basis
- Apply mathematical models to create escalation predictors and forward looking analysis and be able to adjust the models based on specific requirements
- Assist in the management of accounts and drive action plans where gaps exist
- Continuous improvement of the process, the communication methods, reporting and platform infrastructures
- Maintain disciplined and regular communications with Sales, Support and Services as needed with timely action and responsiveness
- Co-ordination with internal Support Delivery Managers, Critical Situation Managers & Technical Support Engineers as needed to assist the Account Escalation Managers (AEMs) and Center of Excellence (COE) Engineers
- Willing to travel up to 25% annually
- Regularly report on performance by proactively conducting strategic satisfaction reviews with all business champions and executive sponsors
- Ensure high-quality customer service with emphasis on timely resolution and through problem definition and identification
- Build relationships with Product Development, Support, Cloud Operations that allow you to quickly solve complex issues
- Customer visits required in the midst of intense situations
- Software as a service, sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and associated data are centrally hosted on the cloud
- Experience with Web & Java enterprise application services such as
- Strong technical grounding & experience with enterprise database technology
- Technical understanding of Enterprise product integration
- 2+ years of Customer Relations experience
Escalation Manager Job Description
- Participate in a variety of special projects as requested, including explorations of system or process improvements and
- Advise the assigned Account Manager on suggested remediation and next steps and/or work directly with the customer toward a resolution, if appropriate
- Manage & Drive Telecommunication, Network & IT infrastructure escalated incidents
- Manage Incident progress & resolution communications
- Establish Internal & external progress bulletins & Flash reports
- On call duty for out of hours incident management
- Service incident reporting and Incident progress & reason for outage/root cause if available
- Suggest Improvement action assignment & tracking
- Interface relationship management
- Ad-hoc project ownership / input where incident management required
- 2+ years of understanding of call center performance metrics and measurements
- Knowledge of Windows PC applications, Microsoft Excel (creating trend charts and v lookup), and Microsoft PowerPoint (creating presentations)
- Language skills necessary - English and Spanish
- Ability to effectively resolve or drive resolution for the critical situations that require the creation of solid, effective and efficient approaches
- Experience with executive managing level expectations and communications
- Demonstrated proficiency in managing challenging customer situations and leading customers through difficult issues to successful resolution
Escalation Manager Job Description
- Interfaces with Customers, Suppliers & Third Parties
- Xcellent communication skills (both written and verbal) with strong presentation and facilitation skills
- Know & follow CSS Franchise policies & procedures & follow CSS Franchise policies & procedures related to work performed in area of responsibility
- Training is required for changes in existing policies & procedures, for new assignments & for implementation of new policies & procedures
- Complete required periodic re-training in areas such as safety & environmental
- Set standards for safe behavior
- Recognize & reward safe behavior in others
- Enforce safety policies & procedures
- Assure efficient execution of the escalation process, and identify and coordinate improvements
- Develop metrics and monitoring system to report on and improve performance of the Escalation process
- Proven ability to manage multiple tasks or projects
- Demonstrated experience coordinating and directing cross-functional teams and resources
- 8 or more years of relevant industry experience, including leading multiple functions in a complex operations unit
- Building a stronger relationship with high profile accounts
- Own and maintain customer satisfaction and loyalty during crisis situations
- Diffuse challenging situations and engaging the appropriate resources to drive issues to resolution and manage executive escalations
Escalation Manager Job Description
- Manage Escalation process, including coordination of the meetings, review of escalation file content and closure
- Execute WW Field Actions, including coordination of the QRB meeting, communication of the QRB decision to all impacted regions and partners, Health Authority interactions regarding field actions, including status updates and completion activities
- Participate as a manager to improve environment & business systems of CSS Franchises
- Provide direct communication to directors & VP’s on progress, opportunities & issues
- Represent escalation process and outcomes during audits, and own management and responses to findings in these areas
- Responsible for escalation management within Engineering & Cloud Delivery
- Owns all escalation management & escalation prevention processes within Engineering
- Will act as primary point of contact internally for any Engineering and/or Cloud Delivery activities associated with a customer escalation
- Works closely with Engineering/Customer Support triage teams to properly slot the escalated customer issues into the appropriate delivery vehicle
- Occasionally, this role will have to support expectation-setting discussions with Customer executive/VP-Level stakeholders through meetings and regular communication on any escalated account
- 7+ years’ experience managing Fortune 500 accounts in a technology industry
- Previous experience using negotiation, influencing, and facilitation skills in a business or IT environment
- Well versed in the business of service delivery with experience developing and managing projects stakeholders, senior executives, and customers
- Above average ability to manage expectations, promote information sharing across diverse groups, and represent the customer in internal discussions
- A track record of autonomy, ownership and execution
- Strong team player with proven coaching and mentoring abilities