Position:

National Customer Support Manager

Description:

 
Company Background:
 
Our Client, a German company, the innovation leader, technology leader in the tap-changer business and also the No 1 supplier of on-load tap changer for power transformers in various industrial applications, is now searching for candidates in China.
 
Main Responsibilities:
 
  • Develop a customer support strategy;
  • Identify short and long-term support service needs;
  • Provide direction of the national service team to meet growing business needs;
  • Design a decentralized support structure to cover the whole country;
  • Manage a national support team;
  • Develop a comprehensive performance management system for support engineers;
  • Provides timely feedback to management regarding issues affecting the quality of service to the customer;
  • Collaboratively work with other groups to achieve a high degree of internal and external satisfaction regarding the support of company's products and solutions;
  • Coach Regional Support Team Leaders to lead their teams effectively;
  • Hires, trains and develops a high performing customer support team focused on delivering results;
  • Access the skill gaps and develop training plans;
  • Monitor performance to provide development opportunities;
  • Develop innovate ways to solve customer problems, has a clear and accurate picture of who our customers are and what they want;
  • Help the team to discover common problems across customers and develop solutions;
  • Coach the team to solve not only technical problems but people and management problems;
  • Develop innovative solutions to meet customers’ specific needs;
  • Liaise with company’s Engineering organization to effectively drive solution of problems after setting appropriate customer expectations;
  • Build relationship with company’s Engineer organization to mobilize resources;
  • Provide accurate assessment of customer problems when ask for support;
  • Manage the support processes involving company’s Engineering organization;
  • Grow maintenance business;
  • Lead the maintenance sales team to grow the business;
  • Set targets and provide sales support;
  • Manage key customers;
  • Maintain relationship and provide proactive support;
  • Identify further business opportunities when providing services;
  • Collaborate with Sales;
  • Work with Sales to meet customer needs proactively;
  • Support Sales by resolve problems of key customers timely and professionally;
 
Qualification & Requirement:
 
  • Senior management team and technical team in Germany;
  • Sales team and key customers;
  • More than 3 years experience in managing customer support;
  • Bachelor degree in mechanical/electrical engineering;
  • Technical expertise in maintenance, service and repair;
  • Experience in dealing with electrical power companies (power plants power supply bureaus...)
  • With strong leadership and decentralized team management experience;
  • Excellent communication, negotiation and relationship building skills;
  • To be innovative and flexible in designing solutions for new problems ;
  • Good command of language skills and communication skills required.;
  • A disciplined, energetic, high achiever with an exceptional track record of success in customer service;
  • Decisive and focused—understands what needs to be done and moves quickly to that end
 
Nationality:Prefer local Chinese
 
Compensation:The starting compensation will depend upon, among others, the individual’s experience, qualifications and current earnings.
 
Report To: National Sales Director
 
Location:Suzhou,  China
 
  
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