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With over 15,000 employees worldwide, the Microsoft Customer Experience and Success (CEnS) organization is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of the Microsoft end-to-end customer experience. This newly expanded organization reflects the Microsoft ambition to be known as a customer experience company, ensuring our Microsoft mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is enabled by delighting customers and consistently exceeding their expectations in every interaction through a connected customer experience.

Relationship Manager (Customer Advocate) investigates and resolves customer escalations that are escalated outside of the designed support model.  Relationship Managers have a proven ability to handle some of the most challenging and sensitive customer situations by leveraging their strong communication skills and customer empathy.  In addition, this individual will be expected to proactively develop strong relationships across the organization, working collaboratively with colleagues, team leads, and senior stakeholders across the company. A successful advocate has clear and professional communication skills appropriate for stakeholders on the Executive team, Legal and PR teams.

Responsibilities

• Customer recovery and problem resolution, with a focus on customer listening, empathy, and meaningful resolution that inspires customer loyalty.  Drive positive results for customer & partner experience and customer retention
• Drive customer recovery across all products, services, and customer support scenarios such as Windows, Office 365, Active Directory, Networking etc., Specialization may occur based on expertise and business need.
• Advocate for the best resolution possible for the customer while balancing Microsoft policy and interests through exception management.
• Communicating effectively case status and roadblocks to stakeholders.
  • Mentoring and consultation with team members
  • Documentation of customer issues for further analysis by the business.
  • Identifying reoccurring or emerging issues and escalating to the appropriate channels
  • For technical issues, engagement with Engineering with respect to the release of code/updates to address critical, systemic and emerging issues. 
  • Work closely with Supportability Program Managers, Technical Advisors, Escalation Engineers, and cross organizations to ensure that key support escalations are addressed.
  • Adhere to strict SLAs
  • Self-prioritize and manage case work
  • Contribute towards the identification, documentation and elimination of root cause. 
  • Identify opportunities to provide a better customer experience
  • Triage and case assignment as needed
  • Create documentation as necessary (for issues, product defect and how to articles, or general purposes such as process and documentation for the future, etc.)
  • Engage escalation path for consultations and exception approvals per process
  • Share knowledge and leverage the ideas of others to help the team grow and develop
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Key Skills and personal attributes

• Passionate about resolving complex problems
• Passionate about Microsoft products/services
• A service customer advocate at heart; ability to empathize
• Effective active listening
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to self-direct work to meet deadlines
• Confident with their own judgement of a situation and able to articulate the reasoning behind it
• Exceptional troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Ability research issues and documentation, leverage knowledge base, training and consultations to find solutions
• knowledge and experience in the Microsoft Products such as Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype
• Knowledge of Operating Systems, Active Directory, Clustering and Networking an advantage
• Fluent English

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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