Escalation Manager

Escalation Manager

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Job Description:

HPE Operations is our innovative IT services organization. It provides the expertise to advise, integrate, and accelerate our customers’ outcomes from their digital transformation. Our teams collaborate to transform insight into innovation. In today’s fast paced, hybrid IT world, being at business speed means overcoming IT complexity to match the speed of actions to the speed of opportunities. Deploy the right technology to respond quickly to market possibilities. Join us and redefine what’s next for you.

The Escalation Manager is the key to a successful escalation solution. This individual will provide leadership and support to the Escalation Team by bringing together the elements needed to ensure the escalation or issue at hand is resolved. He/she is responsible for all internal and external communications relating to the escalation.   This shall be done in an efficient manner which  concludes in an outcome, that suits the business needs of both the customer and HPE.

The Escalation Manager will be an active member of a TEM community and as such, shall strive to share and maintain “best in class” practices within the community.

The Escalation Manager shall demonstrate behaviors in alignment with Technical Escalation Management guiding principles and shall effectively collaborate and contribute to both their own work group and the wider TEM teams.

What you will do:

1.    Lead every aspect of Escalation activity for their designated Country / Area. 
2.    Own Escalation performance for a designated Country / Area.
3.    Be a team player and yet, show leadership and be the designated point of contact for the Escalation Process.
4.    Within an Escalation, ensure that the Escalation Process and associated Tools are adhered to by the broader Support Community.
5.    At times, be required to lead an Escalation outside their designated Country / Area.
6.    Ensure documented Escalation and communication processes are adhered to and duly followed. 
7.    Share ‘Best Practice’ among their peers in the TEM community and be required to actively look for and identify pro-active / issue prevention opportunities where these present themselves.
8.    Be actively involved in ensuring there is an awareness and understanding of the Customer Resolution Process and Escalation Processes among the various cross-functional groups within their designated Country / Area.
9.    Identify possible opportunities in the form of sales leads and enter such in the appropriate tool. 
10.    Capable of working constructively in a highly pressurized environment.
11.    Willing to work after office hours to manage critical customer escalations when necessary
12.    24x7 availability as required for ‘Out of Hours’ (OOH) coverage (where country laws/working practices allow).
13.    Demonstrates the ability to work with and be sensitive to other cultures.

•    Demonstrates breadth of influence across multiple organizations within the Business, and expertise is sought, valued and used. 
•    Skilled in utilizing methodologies for problem management and resolution of escalated issues.
•    Routinely exercises independent judgment to develop methods, techniques and criteria for achieving objectives.
•    Provides highly innovative management of complex escalations.
•    Promotes the direct value our portfolio of Support Solutions can provide to our business partners and customers.
•    Shows recognition of the achievements of peers.
•    Creates opportunities to increase the competence of the work group in a proactive and consistent way.
•    Identifies and communicates possible process changes that will remedy inefficiencies as appropriate.
•    Demonstrates an understanding of the financial justification of a customer investing in a technology or service.

Core:

• Obtained and maintains PMP qualification (or recognized equivalent Project Management qualification)
• Has a good understanding of project management (PM) techniques and Tools
• Has a Services or Technical background

• Has strong verbal and written communication skills

• Has sound negotiating and excellent presentation skills
• Proficient in English
• Effective at problem-solving
• Ability to summarize technical content for non-technical executive audience
• Has a broad knowledge of corporate policies, products, markets and processes, as well as an understanding of business management principles and practices
• Good knowledge of all relevant HPE services, competition, market trends, third parties
• Developing leadership/mentoring skills
• Able to lead cross-functional teams to achieve desired outcomes.

Customer: 

• Effective at
  • Communicating to customer senior leadership level as well as the ability to lead customer technical representatives.
  • Communicating to various levels depending on audience
  • Anticipating Customer needs, developing proposed solutions and building consensus with customer key decision makers

Operational Excellence:

• Must actively work with all groups, tools and processes to resolve open issues in an efficient and timely manner. 
• Be responsible for and ensure all aspects of the Escalation ‘Action Plan’ are carried out.
• Adhere to escalation tools documentation standards
• Timely updates, both within escalation team and to customer contacts.

What you will bring:

• 5 years experience in project management or in like roles/businesses

Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Business Growth, Business Planning, Coaching, Commercial Acumen, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (Inactive), Data Controls, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Personal Initiative {+ 7 more}

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

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Job Level:

Expert

    

    

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