Job Description

The Manager, Technical Product Support is responsible for the day-to-day offshore operations of the customer support team to provide high service quality, customer satisfaction and restore service failures for our products. This role ensures the offshore team meets service level agreements, resolves escalated customer issues, provides training, and implements strategies to enhance customer satisfaction and team performance.

What You Will Do:

• Lead and mentor a team of technical product support analysts, ensuring consistent high performance.
• Confirm team is trained and following support procedures and processes and audit support interactions to ensure adherence to quality standards.
• Act as a point of escalation for complex product issues and customer concerns.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering and QA teams to resolve issues and influence product improvements.
• Develop and maintain documentation including FAQs, troubleshooting guides, and knowledge base articles.
• Analyze support trends and customer feedback to identify opportunities for process improvements.
• Report on performance metrics such as ticket resolution time, customer satisfaction, and support quality.
• Implement tools and systems to enhance support efficiency and tracking.
• Drive initiatives to improve custom experience and reduce ticket age and/or volume (e.g.; self-service, automation).
• Participate in product readiness, ensuring the team is trained and equipped.
• Keeps the Global Support Manager and CS Director informed and updated on customer support and delivery issues and makes recommendations on improvement of services.
• Stay actively informed of the business activities, product and service capabilities to enhance customer support, service delivery and business operations.
• Responsible for management of Engagement, Attrition and ESAT for the team.
• Ensure team is meeting agreed support SLAs, paid support contract deliverables, and department OKRs through better workload distribution, queue management and escalation handling.
• Conduct regular Customer meetings to review support cases, trends, recommendations and overall product usage.
• Engage in effective Career Development activities like effective career coaching and counselling.
• Lead team meetings and one-on-ones to ensure continuous skill development and high team morale.
• Participating in recruitment activity of technical support team.

What You Will Need:

Education and Experience

• Typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience with 3 years in support management
• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., ITIL, DevOps, SRE) are a plus.
• Experience in writing complicated SQL Queries. Must have the ability to analyze SQL scripts from within the application software code.
• Experience in Core Java Programing. Should be able to debug java programs from the code in the production to perform a root cause analysis.
• Strong knowledge in developing small Java applications to handle data discrepancy issues.
• Knowledge of writing Windows Batch Command files for various tasks in client environment.
• Knowledge of Automation scripts using Powershell.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong knowledge of the company’s products and services, with effective troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills capable of explaining technical concepts in clear, simple terms.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a data-driven approach.
• The management skills to organize, plan and direct the work activities of other professional employees.
• The human relations skills necessary to organize, direct and motivate senior level professionals and managers. These skills are also necessary to develop strong client relationships at the highest levels.
• Experience with support platforms (e.g. D365, Ivanti, Jira).
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies is a plus.
• Working knowledge of the ABS Health, Safety, Quality, and Environmental Management System.

Reporting Relationships:

Reports directly to the Global Support Manager or CS Director. Product Support Team Leads and Sr. Product Support Analyst.

We set out more than 160 years ago to promote the security of life and property at sea and preserve the natural environment. Today, we remain true to our mission and continue to support organizations facing a rapidly evolving seascape of challenging regulations and new technologies. Through it all, we are anchored by a vision and mission that help our clients find clarity in uncertain times.

ABS is a global leader in marine and offshore classification and other innovative safety, quality, and environmental services. We’re at the forefront of supporting the global energy transition at sea, the application of remote and autonomous marine systems, cutting-edge technical solutions, and many more exciting advancements. Our commitment to safety, reliability, and efficiency is ever-present, guiding our clients to safer and more efficient operations.

About Our Benefits

ABS Bureau proudly offers a variety of industry-leading benefits designed to enhance the life and well-being of our employees and their families. These benefits include, but are not limited to, medical insurance (PPO and HD), dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Savings Account (FSA), life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, disability leave programs, parental leave program, paid holidays, and paid vacation time. The Company provides an Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) that offers support in personal wellness, including work-life services. ABS Bureau also offers a 401K plan with a generous company match, subject to plan requirements.

Equal Opportunity

ABS Bureau is committed to the equal employment opportunity of its employees and prohibits discrimination against any employee or qualified applicant based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status, or other non-work-related characteristics that may be protected under the law of the Federal Government or specific state employment laws.

Notice

ABS and Affiliated Companies (ABS) will not pay a fee to any third-party agency without a valid ABS Master Service Agreement (MSA) authorized and signed by Human Resources. Any resume, CV, application, or other forms of candidate submission provided to any employee of ABS without a valid MSA on file will be considered property of ABS, and no fee will be paid.

Other

This job description is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an all-inclusive list of responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with the job of the incumbent. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the principal job elements essential for making a fair decision regarding the pay structure of the job. #ogjs