
Lead Cloud Service Manager
- Cork
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Providing overall business management of the customer which includes weekly status calls, monthly SLA reporting and business reviews, issue tracking reporting and cross functional communication with other OT teams (i.e., support, sales, product management, etc.).
- Managing customer expectations such that escalations can be avoided. If escalations do arise, the CSM leads the escalation management until the issues are resolved and the account de-escalated.
- Managing relationships and interfacing at various levels within the customer's organization (i.e., business, technical, executive leadership).
- Identifying new business opportunities, recommending products or services to improve customer satisfaction and ROI.
- Identifying customer needs for contract add-ons, renewals, upgrades and value-added services and engaging the relevant OT contacts for execution.
- Regular discussions and addressing any customer concerns regarding overall service and satisfaction, making necessary adjustments and ensuring that issues have been addressed and customer perception has positively.
- Provides expert incident and problem management for high impact and critical customer issues and ensures root-cause analysis is conducted and a corrective action plan is followed through with any learning applied for future benefit.
- Strong client focus – ability to operate at a senior manager level
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business discipline, or equivalent
- Conversant in cloud technology and data center deployment. ITIL certification preferred.
- Experience with formal project management techniques (i.e. Formal status reporting and client communication, budget/scope management and change controls, and project team direction and technical leadership).
- Demonstrable experience in developing and rolling out customer satisfaction improvement programs
- Able to work independently with positive problem solving attitude