The Customer Support Team Lead is responsible for overseeing a team of customer support agents providing support in French, Italian, and English. The Team Lead ensures high-quality service is delivered to customers while maintaining the team’s operational efficiency. They play a key role in team management, performance improvement, and process optimization, actively supporting team members in handling customer inquiries, requests, orders, issues, and escalations.
Team Lead, Global Service Desk
Your responsibilities
- Team Leadership:
- Lead, mentor, and coach a team of customer support agents, ensuring their performance aligns with company goals and KPIs
- Set clear team goals, monitor progress, and provide regular performance feedback
- Foster a positive, collaborative team environment that promotes productivity and job satisfaction
- Customer Support Operations:
- Oversee daily support operations, ensuring tickets, chats, and calls are handled efficiently and effectively
- Manage the workload and schedules of team members to meet support demands and maintain service-level agreements (SLAs)
- Handle escalated customer issues and complaints, ensuring they are resolved quickly and appropriately
- Performance Monitoring:
- Track team performance through metrics like response times, customer satisfaction (CSAT), and ticket resolution
- Identify areas for improvement and implement strategies to optimize performance and team output
- Conduct regular one-on-one meetings and performance reviews with team members
- Training and Development:
- Provide ongoing training and development opportunities to ensure team members have the knowledge and skills required to excel in their roles
- Keep the team updated on new products, services, and procedures
- Develop and update team training materials as needed
- Process Improvement:
- Collaborate with the Manager and other departments to streamline processes, improve workflows, and enhance the overall customer experience
- Identify common issues or recurring problems and work with relevant teams to resolve them
- Reporting:
- Prepare and present regular reports on team performance, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency to leadership
- Analyze trends in customer feedback and provide insights for continuous improvement
- Stakeholder Collaboration:
- Work closely with other departments, including Customer Support Quality Assurance, IBX Operations, Customer Success Management, and Sales, to ensure customer feedback is incorporated into business strategies and service improvements
- May represent the support team in selected cross-functional meetings to ensure alignment and coordination
Our requirements
- Proven years of experience in customer support, with some years in a supervisory or team lead role
- Proficiency in French and Italian is considered an asset
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Communications, or a related field preferred
- Strong leadership and people management skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to handle escalations and resolve complex customer issues
- Data-driven with experience in performance analysis and reporting
- Proficient in customer support software (e.g., Salesforce Service Cloud) and MS Office applications
What we offer
- Employment in a stable company with an established position in the market.
- Possibility to work within fast growing world’s 500 Fortune digital infrastructure company.
- Challenging job in a dynamic, professional, international and multicultural environment.
- Possibility to participate in company sponsored trainings package.
- Employee Assistance Program – assess to free counselling legal and financial consultations and crisis intervention.
- Paid employee referral program.
- Opportunity to work in supportive, inclusive environment with People-Centric Culture.
- Competitive salary and yearly bonus as well as a well-defined career path shaped to the individuals career focus & priorities.
- Attractive benefits package