
Technical Support Manager
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Day-to-day accountability of the assigned team
- Availability planning to ensure incoming customer issues are handled efficiently and effectively (right eye principle), within SLA
- Identify and plan both technical and soft skills training to develop the team and ensure technical capability is maintained
- Responsible for all aspects of employee/team performance and ensuring individual and team goals are achieved
- Escalation Management. Facilitate and coordination across all business units, driving issues to a satisfactory and timely resolution. Preparing customer communications that require management level ownership
- Input into the successful operation of the Global Technical Support team
- Identify problems and seek solutions. Recommend process and system enhancements that lead directly to continuous improvement of the operational effectiveness of Riverbed, the customer and the employee
- Principle responsibilities include:
- People management: including regular one on ones, focal reviews, career and development planning and individual performance management
- Operational management: collaboration with the broader Global TAC Management team in daily tasks to include; availability management, queue management, ACD participation (management), case and backlog management
- Situational management: customer success is measured by customer satisfaction; our ability to manage customer escalations directly impacts customer success
- Change advocate: identifying improvements to operational efficiencies and drive best practice collaboration with teams and departments, outside the immediate TAC organization
- Analytical problem solving with the ability to apply clear, original and innovative thinking
- Prior experience leading remote technical support teams
- Demonstrable experience in communicating at all levels
- Experienced in work day systems (SFDC, CRM, ACD, reporting tools)
- Knowledgeable in ways to motivate a team of highly technical remote support engineers, monitor and identify opportunities to improve team performance