About the Role
The Manager, Customer Service is a key strategic and operational leadership role responsible providing solutions and support to customers, develop team competences and skills, drive continuous improvement, development of operational requirements, process and technology to achieve customer satisfaction with optimal cost to the organization. The Customer Service Manager is also responsible for identifying trends from the data, to drive culture, process and performance improvements and efficiencies to benefit the customer and our teams, who typically deliver customer interactions across multiple channels (Front and Back office. Telephone. Email. Online. Live Chat. Video, Social Media. Correspondence.)
What You Will Do
Be a change agent: Improve customer service quality by studying, evaluating, and re-designing processes; establishing and communicating service metrics; monitoring and analyzing results.
Analyze and streamline processes to measure and manage operating costs. Improve existing product quality feedback loop to ensure product issues are communicated to the engineering/manufacturing/quality teams efficiently
Strategically lead and develop a team to enhance performance by setting clear accountable performance measures
Responsible for Profit and Loss, or Profit Centre/Cost Centre Budgets, reducing the overall cost of service
Create a culture and processes which achieve the business goals and objectives with regards to their customer service;
Improve NPS (Net Promoter Score), CSAT (Customer Satisfaction), or other Customer Metrics.
Empower and Engage the Customer Service Team
Improve case resolution
Identify new tools and technologies to better serve the customer
Drive better sales through service
Use Customer Insight and Root Cause Analytics to identify companywide improvements and present these to the Senior Stakeholder Peers.
Act as the Voice of the Customer across the organization.
Identifying and providing feedback through 1:1s, effective use of personal development plans and provision of coaching & development opportunities.
Continually develop improvements and embed successful change projects.
Drive quality and consistency in the process, customer interactions and products
Handle customer escalations.
KPI tracking and continuous improvement development
Manage reverse logistics operations
What is Nice to Have
Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain or other degree or equivalent experience in Customer Service
Ability to manage complex situations and 5+ years of direct supervisory experience
What You Need
Experience of managing operational customer service teams
Strong strategic and customer focus with a clear understanding of the wider issues impacting the relevant markets.
Proven Management and/or relationship management experience
Established track record of exceeding targets, KPI’s SLA’s
Able to interpret data and develop strategy to drive improvements.
Demonstrate ability to motivate and communicate with others at all levels
Influential relationships skills. Able to use these relationships to deliver service improvements
Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
Able to adapt and succeed in a changing environment
What Makes You Eligible
Willingness to work in an office in Richardson, TX.
Willingness to work across multiple time zones when needed.
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen
Stamford, CT
HARMAN (harman.com) designs and engineers connected products and solutions for automakers, consumers, and enterprises worldwide, including connected car systems, audio and visual products, enterprise automation solutions; and services supporting the Internet of Things.
With leading brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, Mark Levinson® and Revel®, HARMAN is admired by audiophiles, musicians and the entertainment venues where they perform around the world.
More than 50 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and connected car systems.
Our software services power billions of mobile devices and systems that are connected, integrated and secure across all platforms, from work and home to car and mobile. HARMAN has a workforce of approximately 30,000 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
In March 2017, HARMAN became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics.