Senior Support Escalation Manager

1 Month ago • 10-18 Years • Operations

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Support Escalation Manager leads a team (up to 16 Service Managers) providing coaching, growth opportunities, and support to deliver maximum customer impact. Responsibilities include managing critical issue resolution, building cross-functional relationships, mentoring Support Escalation Managers, and driving strategic initiatives. This role involves managing customer expectations, overseeing projects to improve resolution times and satisfaction, collaborating with engineering and operations teams, and representing the Service Management function in business reviews. The position requires strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, along with experience in crisis/escalation management and Microsoft products/services.
Must have:
  • 10+ years' experience in technology/customer service or related field
  • 8+ years' managerial experience in crisis/escalation management
  • Proven ability to lead high-performing teams
  • Experience with Microsoft products and services
  • Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
Good to have:
  • ITIL or similar Service Management Accreditation
  • Cloud Technology Certification (Azure Fundamentals, M365 Fundamentals)
  • Project management experience
Perks:
  • Flexible work arrangements (up to 100% remote)

Job Details

Overview

With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft’s products and services, ignited by our people and culture. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.

 

Within CE&S, the Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization builds trust and confidence for every person and organization through delivering a seamless support experience. In CSS, we are powered by Microsoft’s AI technology to help consumers, businesses, partners, and more, resolve their issues quickly and securely, helping prevent future problems from occurring and achieving more from their Microsoft investment.


Advocacy & Customer Trust (ACT) delivers connected support experiences to our customers to gain and keep their trust.

Our Senior Support Escalation Management (Service Manager) function is positioned and aligned with our customers as Chief Operating Officers within the account, strategically placed to ensure that we have the appropriate level of engagement to support and drive the customer’s reactive support landscape and improve operational health. As such you will manage a team of these individuals supporting some of the world’s largest companies, public sector depts and not for profit organisations pursuing strategic activities, and utilising Microsoft technologies to modernise their business.  


We create an environment where you can do your best work and build a career both in the Service Management function as well as the wider Microsoft organisation. As your interests and goals evolve, we will enable you to connect you with a diverse, thriving community that can help you grow.

 

In the Customer Service & Support (CSS) organization we are looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As Senior Support Escalation Manager, you will earn our customers’ trust and loyalty by swiftly mitigating the business impact of our customers’ most critical support issues. This opportunity will allow you to be responsible for the day-to-day management and administration of the team and ensure that customer and business expectations are met.


This role is flexible in that you can work up to 100% from home with occasional travel required and attendance supporting customer on-site engagement infrequently.


Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
• 9+ years of technology industry, customer service, or related experience
o OR Bachelor's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 6+ years of technology industry, customer service, or related experience
o OR Master's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 4+ years of technology industry, customer service, or related experience
o OR equivalent experience


Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
8+ years Managerial Experience within a Crisis, Escalation or Incident Management business.
10+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience
o OR Bachelor's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 8+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience
o OR Master's Degree in technology, business, or related field AND 6+ years technology industry, customer service, or related experience
o OR equivalent experience.

 

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:
Proven track record of building and executing leadership of high-performing teams of senior customer colleagues.
ITIL or similar Service Management Accreditation at Practitioner level or higher.
Experience working with Microsoft products and services.
Cloud Technology Certification (Azure Fundamentals. M365 Fundamentals).
Project management experience.

 

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and / or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire / transfer and every two years thereafter.

 

Responsibilities

You will manage a team of up to 16 Service Managers in order to provide them with coaching, growth opportunities and CARE, ensuring that they are delivering maximum impact for their customers which they support.

People Management:
- You will deliver success through team empowerment and accountability by practicing management excellence principles like model, coach, care. You will enable the individuals on your team to operate in the service delivery details by helping unblock, make connections, facilitate, address escalations, support team and individual growth.

 

Customer Resolution:
- Manage resolution of highly sensitive, political, visible, and reputational issues and act as a primary contact for escalated issues and build strategic cross-functional relationships to resolve systematic customer issues and provide coaching and mentorship to Support Escalation Managers.
- Acts as an escalation contact to understand issues and improve the experiences of account-aligned customers independently. Supports the Service Managers as they maintain and develop relationships with various internal and external teams to resolve customer issues.
- Acts as a leader and steering governance of projects to drive key strategic initiatives.
- Is accountable for supporting the SMs with their inter-regional, cross-regional, cross-group, or account team unit (ATU) initiatives by gathering feedback and identifying resources to improve the customer support experience for a group of customers or a specific region/area. Models best practices to support the customer experience.
- Acts as a High Judgement Decision Maker to provide strategic direction and status updates to customers and internal stakeholders through various channels of communication regarding issues, following the documented process.
- Directs SMs in their management of strategic projects designed to improve resolution times, customer satisfaction, and support experience.
Is responsible for the achievement of KPIs for the SMs within the team and their effectiveness in driving a world-class reactive support experience.

 

Collaboration:
- Promote the development of networks and provide guidance on leveraging relationships and identify reoccurring roadblocks across the team and escalate as needed.
- Collaborates with engineering teams and/or operations teams to identify the right resources by escalation. Acts as a subject matter expert on the written protocol to ensure the right groups are engaged to resolve customer issues.
- Owns escalated issues and oversees account-aligned customer incidents to identify and remove barriers. Ensures existing processes are not a blocker to customer issue resolution and acts as a key player during process improvement efforts. Shares consistent processes and best practices on how to handle moderate to highly complex cases and provide continual improvement to the customer experience.

Resolve strategic issues with functional leaders and provide expert direction for handling complex cases.

 

Communication:
- Oversee and provide guidance on conference calls to help others manage customer and field expectations and liaise between team members and senior leaders to keep all informed about incident resolution and ensure alignment around customer expectations, response and resolution.
- Manages customer and field expectations around issue response and represents the company independently from a position of escalation / seniority. 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.
- Takes ownership of and nurtures relationships with internal teams and partners and proactively communicates with senior leadership on issues complex in scope and provides solutions to resolve them. Paves the way and removes obstacles for their team members to deliver world-class reactive support experiences.

 

Process Improvement:
- Gather and consolidate feedback across teams and identify process breakdowns and ensure resolution or progress and lead process improvement projects.
- Identifies systematic issues and process breakdown and participates in a project or workgroup to improve systematic issues and internal processes.
- Creates an executive summary detailing the customer issue, impact on the business, and status of the resolution. Identifies patterns in customer issues and supports the delivery of strategies to resolve them.
- Represents the Service Management function within the Service Center Monthly Business Review rhythm.

Vendor Relationships
- Oversee relationships with outsource vendors and foster positive cultural and behavioral changes.
- Participates and drives relationships with outsource vendors to resolve issues and foster positive cultural and behavioral changes.

 

Embody our Culture and Values

 

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