Japan Technical Support Manager
Requirements for Sourcing Candidates:
Cognizant is seeking a strong team manager to supervise a team of Core and Core+ representatives.
We are obsessed with delivering an amazing customer experience. The ideal candidates will be comfortable understanding of customer service, have an appetite for research and gathering data insights, a high level of comfort working with cross functional partners, and a strong analytical mindset. Successful team members have a passion for business success, strong attention to detail, analytical problem-solving abilities, keeping a high level of team motivation and keen eyes for operational inefficiencies. This position requires technical acumen, customer focus and a personable, professional, and collaborative style to solve a range of issues from product troubleshooting to billing.
Responsibilities:
· Manage the overall performance of a team of customer service representatives
· Day-to-day team management in accordance with requirements and SLAs
· Prompt identification and resolution of issues including implementation of preventative measures.
· Provide high quality agent coaching to ensure proper understanding of products and services, compliance in client’s policies, and delivery of the best customer service
· Recruits, selects, hires, and trains new personnel and prepares them to respond to customer questions and complaints
· Provide exceptional people management, mentorship, and career development to members of your team, achieve low attrition levels and high employee engagement
· Drive team to deliver continuous improvement and productivity/quality gains
· Flag and escalate business risks timely
· Making sure the operations is running as well as it possibly can, with a smooth efficient service that meets the expectations and needs of internal stakeholders and the client
· Client interfacing
· improve operational systems, processes and best practices that guarantee organizational well-being and efficiencies
· Leverage service quality, growth, and efficiency metric reports to identify areas of opportunity to enhance agent performance and drive achievement of stated goals.
· Perform quality controls and monitor production KPI’s, prepare reports and analyze data for your team
· Ability to develop and implement strategic processes to increase consistency and promote overall growth of the project
· Flexible with timings to support operations
Job Requirements:
· Fluent in English and Japanese as outlined in Language Proficiencies above
· Superior oral and written communication skills
· Experience in leading teams in customer support via voice and chat support or a call center environment
· Advanced customer focus and customer service skills
· As this position is managing the team of customer service representatives, we expect this Team Manager also possess some technical skills in applications:
-Understanding log analysis using network tools such as Fiddler, HAR Analyzer, browser developer tools, or similar.
-Understanding of modern markup and programming languages such as XML, JavaScript/jQuery, or similar.
-Knowledge of troubleshooting in a web-based environment, including HTTP, JSON, IIS, HTML, and CSS
-Familiarity with Jira and Salesforce for case management.
· Exceptional training and coaching skills to motivate employees
· Great verbal and written communication skills
· Have full understanding of creating and implementing scheduling and task distribution
· Dynamic leader with experience and passion for managing large and diverse teams across multiple sites in a fast paced environment, able to deal with rapid change and ambiguity
· Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
· 3+ years of experience in team management, managing 10+ FTE
· Passion to create an exceptional experience and provide outstanding customer support
· Excited to be part of a global operations teams, design effective business operations, tackle complex problems, and develop individual team members
Employee Status : Full Time Employee
Shift : Day Job
Travel : No
Job Posting : Jan 10 2024
About Cognizant
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you have a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email TAGJapan@cognizant.com with your request and contact information.