Associate Director Customer Solutions UK & Nordic

England - Remote

Basic Function and Scope of the Position:

The Associate Director Customer Services, UK and Nordics, is responsible for managing customer support and professional services in the defined territory. The primary performance metrics is customer satisfaction. However, there is also a strong focus on profitable growth of our services business. They will manage a group of field service managers and supervisors but also directly supervise specialist individual contributors e.g. Staff Engineers or On-Site Team Leaders. They are expected to work closely with the regions core service teams e.g. tech support to provide a seamless customer support experience. Strong collaboration with the local commercial team is also mandatory.

Tasks and Responsibilities

Directly manage the day to day operations of their team to achieve the goals of the business.

Collaborate with sales and marketing to support sales of new instruments, growth of consumable sales to existing customers and development of the long term sub-region plan

Collaborate with region wide support programs e.g. use of third parties to support and to ensure that local needs are built into those EMEA wide and global programs.

Partner with the in-house support teams (e.g. tech support) to deliver a seamless support experience.

Review customer and internal quality issues on a regular basis and work with the broader service team to drive customer elevations to a prompt conclusion.

Ensure that there is a strong focus on customer experience within the team

Network with customer (and channel partners) to ensure that their support and services needs are properly understood within the firm.

Build a strong management team to ensure that the business goals can be achieved.

Measures of Success

Customer satisfaction & compliance metrics: case closure performance, customer satisfaction, NPS, PAE etc.

Business Growth: service revenues, training days delivered, contract coverage

Financial Performance: Costs, utilisation and applied labour

People development: Power of I, IDP completion.

Required Experience and Skills

Demonstrated ability to set and manage customer expectations 

Strong financial skills/business acumen

Excellent knowledge of Illuminas business environment

Excellent problem-solving skills

Good communication and collaboration skills

Excellent command of English (written and oral)

Desired Experience and Skills

Demonstrated competence at managing multi-country teams

Sales experience would be desirable

Competence in languages other than English

INDHP

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