The Customer Support Team Manager is responsible for the day-to-day management of team supporting customers of LSEG, Trading and Banking products in Portuguese and Spanish of both the South American and European regions.
This role is people manager role with occasional hands-on operational duties in case of escalations and includes leading a group of customer support executives.
A key requirement of the role is to take a proactive approach to maintaining knowledge and skills and to staying on top of what both customers and staff are experiencing.
This is an amazing opportunity for someone with passion for leadership role and enjoys meeting challenging business goals in the customer support._
- Responsibilities:_
- Lead a team of Customer Support Executives supporting the Trading and Banking products in Spanish and Portuguese languages, to proactively respond and handle customer queries and communication ensuring that resolution is provided on a timely manner._
- Hire and subsequently mentor, coach and evaluate performance of staff to deliver superior customer service in line with global customer support guidelines._
- Provide guidance and support in their team's personal development._
- Effectively drive performance to ensure business objectives and key performance parameters are met._
- Work with the team to reduce the volume and time of outstanding cases and ensure they understand and are adhering to procedures._
- Proactively supply ideas or actions to improve efficiencies in the process and/or to improve customer experience._
- Serve as the champion of key initiatives set by the T&B Customer Support organization._
- Recruitment and selection of staff with right competencies to meet the challenging._
- Participate in the performance management and review process facilitating the quarterly, mid-year and annual review process._
- Create a Learning customer environment by supporting continuous development of self and direct reports and champion learning initiatives._
- An individual with customer centric mindset with passion for people leadership and performance excellence will be successful in the role.
As a people leader setting up the new team in Heredia, this leader will be required to hire new team of about 9 Customer support executives.
The opportunity to build a high potential team will be an amazing learning opportunity, prove one's overall leadership skill!_
- Qualifications:_
- _ University degree._
- _ Comprehensive knowledge of customers, products, business, and service drivers._
- _ Excellent communication skills are a must -verbal and written in English and either or Spanish or Portuguese._
- _ Experience in leading a team of 8 to 12 members will be an advantage._
- _ Experience in hiring talent, specifically in customer support function will be an advantage._
- _ Ability to engage with a range of partners, including senior managers._
- _ Enthusiastic to undertake additional projects and responsibilities from time to time._
- _ Strong planning and social skills._
- _ Flexibility with work times and dedication to the effectiveness of the team._
- _ Competent in coaching skills to help the team become successful, to deliver greater business results, and to foster talent development._
- _ Even though this is a leadership role for Portuguese and Spanish customer, the leader is not required to be know one of languages, however good English language communication is a must._
- Why join this team?_
- Be part of an international, multicultural environment of thousands of talented people over multiple countries.
- Interesting and challenging work that includes but is not limited to direct interaction with customers, business leads, Content specialists, product management and technology development.
- Opportunity to learn and hone skills on leadership, strategic thought leadership, solution-oriented thinking, and growth mindset.
- Hybrid working model of 3 days in office and 2 days of remote working, after the team is fully established.
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Our open culture is central to how we deliver our purpose - driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth - in everything we do.
Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 70 countries.
However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.
You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business.
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