Microsoft Customer Service Specialist

Overview

Tek Experts is a tech services and support company focused on delivering specialized and unique solutions for clients. Tek Experts is part of TeKnowledge – where innovation meets purpose. We’re transforming the tech landscape globally, delivering advanced technology services, cybersecurity expertise, and unmatched technical skilling, tailored to the unique landscapes of public and private sectors. 

Our mission is to empower our customers and partners as they realize their fullest potential in a mobile-first, cloud-first world. Key to transformative customer solutions is building and maintaining world-class operations. Our charter is to build a people and process capability that enables our sales and delivery teams to execute with confidence and achieve more for our customers. Our priorities are to deliver valuable services and insights, identify and solve simplification opportunities, and plan and deliver new operational motions to accelerate our digital transformation. If you crave problem-solving, finding improvement in process, learning, and working within a diverse global team, you’re the fit we’re looking for. Join our global team of experts and grow your IT career with us.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join our team as a Customer service & Escalation manager. In this role, you will work across a range of support offerings, including critical issue management and resolution, customer communication, and resource allocation. You will handle escalated customer/partner issues and complex support scenarios, engaging directly with customers to identify and resolve complex technical challenges and drive end-to-end problem resolution while upholding core values of empathy, passion, and integrity. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on customer satisfaction and operational efficiency within our support organization.

Responsibilities

Resolution Customer

• Acts as a primary contact for moderate to highly complex issues for customers. Communicates with customers to understand their issues and improve their experience.
• Effective end-to-end escalation management, driving fast and accurate resolutions for our customers.
• Leads strategic projects designed to improve resolution times, customer satisfaction and increase efficiency.
• Set and manage support expectations with customers.

Escalation Handling

• Drive high-risk issues to resolution by establishing clear communication channels, documenting, and tracking agreed actions, and maintaining an orchestration role across multiple stakeholders.
• Understand the cause of the issue, its business impact, and level of urgency from Customer and other stakeholders.

Collaboration

• Collaborates, leverages relationships, and influences engineering teams and/or operations teams to identify the right technical resource and ensures the right groups are engaged to resolve highly complex customer issues.
• Develops and maintains relationships with internal teams, partners, and senior leadership.

Process Improvement

• Identifies systematic issues and process breakdowns. Pushes creative thinking beyond closed boundaries to come up with process improvements and new ways to delight customers.
• Creates an executive summary detailing the customer issue, impact on the business, and status of the resolution. Identifies patterns in customer issues and identifies strategies to resolve reoccurring issues.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

• 2+ years of customer service, technology industry, or related experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in technology, business, or equivalent field.
• Excellent relationship management, customer service and communication skills in variety
• of forms (written, live chat, conference calls, in-person.)
• Strong English written and verbal communication skills.
• Other languages may be required depending on the location and area to be supported.
• Understanding of reactive case lifecycle and troubleshooting methodology.
• Strong judgment, decision making skills, and ability to work under continual deadline pressure.
• Excellent at multi-tasking, task prioritization and time management.
• Collaborative team player with strong stakeholder management skills.

Preferred qualifications:

• Customer Service Management experience in an IT related environment.
• Familiarity with Microsoft products/services.
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification.

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