Operations Director - Singapore - ADECCO PERSONNEL PTE LTD

Description

Role & Responsibilities

• Understand customer's internal business functions and culture.
• Identify, build and maintain relationships with customer's internal management.
• Act as single point of contact for operational issues, mitigating any crisis.
• Represent customer needs to Cisco post-sales support teams and applicable organizations.
• Travel to quarterly customer site visits to present operational issues/activity, customer satisfaction, and gap analysis to the client and internal Cisco personnel.
• Provide customers with regular updates on "hot" or intensified issues according to customer sentiment.
• Coordinate and conduct weekly conference calls to provide status reports to customer.
• Create and present quarterly reports to customers with analysis of customer's support needs.
• Problem/Project Management.
• Work with Cisco Global to ensure seamless and consistent delivery of services and solution support to achieve customer SLA/KPIs.
• Develop and share operational standard methodologies, processes and procedures to improve the customer operations overtime.
• Build consistent relationships with key Operations and support decision makers within customer base and advices on future direction of Cisco/customer post-sales support relationship.
• Be the "go to" person and main point of contact for customer and internal teams.
• Provide detailed and documented requirements to cross-functional teams that improve the impact of the customer experience.
• Accurately produce High Availability metrics reports (MTTR, KPIs, Analytics, etc.) and other custom reports.
• Conduct internal and customer facing knowledge transfer sessions on Cisco tools processes, procedures.
• Regular review of RMAs to determine if parts are meeting MTBF especially on accounts that have contracted pay outs. If RMAs are getting close to pay out time - dynamically require EFAs by updates through GRs.

Required Skills

• Typically requires a BS/BA degree or equivalent plus 4-6 years related customer support experience, operation and project management experience or business experience.
• Ability to work as a team member in a cross-functional matrix environment.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Knowledge of vertical market business trends and concepts.
• Strong project and problem management skills.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills.