Operations Manager

Work type : Contract 18 M
Location : Bangalore / Hyderabad
Exp : 5+ years

Contract role 18 Months contract with Microsoft

Responsibilities:

People Management :
Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
Model Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
Coach Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
Care Attract and retain great people; Know each individual s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.
Response and Resolution
Ensures customers stay informed as to the status/solution of their issue and manages customer relationship. Monitors tickets of direct reports and delivery units to ensure resolution. Uses tools and strategy to monitor the performance of a team or delivery unit as a whole (e.g., backlog, structure, trends, volume, other business metrics). Serves as the first line of management escalation.
Tracks resolution speed and removes roadblocks (e.g., skill gaps, handle difficult customers) preventing issues from being resolved. Acts as an escalation point in case resolution as necessary. Aligns resources of product group to support engineers.
Identifies patterns (e.g., number of cases with similar issues), solutions, and collaborates with internal stakeholders to prioritize issues at the global level.
Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups including support engineering groups, product groups, services team, and account team as needed to resolve highly complex customer issues.
Readiness
Analyzes group readiness strategy proactively to ensure the team has the correct readiness plan and executes readiness plan for technologies and feature releases. Provides feedback to global readiness team to ensure they have they appropriate readiness strategy and build material. Creates Microsoft role guides and ensures Technical Support Engineers have attended compliance trainings. Aids team in identifying gaps in technical documentation and collaborates with engineering and product teams to fill document gaps regarding new and existing technology.

Product/Process Improvement :
Communicates aggregated customer feedback to stakeholders to influence and drive product quality improvements.
Identifies resources needed to resolve bugs. Drives visibility of product bugs to ensure timely engagement and/or action. Tracks pending cases due to bugs and influences product team to improve resolution and prevent customers from being impacted.
Establishes requirements and collaborates with others across the organization to build monitoring and diagnostic tools that automate the discovery and resolution of issues.
Creates and establishes operational frameworks and sets standards and measures for resolving issues. Enhances processes or workflows across the line of business.
Ensures team member participation in case triage meetings and/or case discussions to share knowledge with other engineers and develop efficient customer solutions by prioritizing issues, identifying resources, reviewing processes, or providing additional customer support.
Business Integration
Establishes an engagement strategy with internal teams to promote a consistent plan. Creates methods of relationship building and collaboration to influence local and global strategy for lifetime customer loyalty.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office required.