About this role
<p><img src="https://dmscdn.successfactors.com/27c0a91770d9ecac9ed08a9f63f401a6121aa728d77960676d754d492bcae147/static_content/8761288a654040abb2af/jobad1.png" alt="" width="748" height="128"> </p> <p> </p><p style="margin:7.5pt 0.0cm 0.0cm;line-height:13.5pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Position:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif"> Service Manager - (Gujarat, MP-CG & Rajasthan)</span></p> <p style="margin:7.5pt 0.0cm 0.0cm;line-height:13.5pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Reporting To:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif"> Head – Customer Service (Yale)</span></p> <p style="margin:7.5pt 0.0cm 0.0cm;line-height:13.5pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Location:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif"> Delhi-NCR</span></p> <p style="margin:7.5pt 0.0cm 0.0cm;line-height:13.5pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">No. of direct reports</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">: 4</span></p> <p style="margin:7.5pt 0.0cm 0.0cm;line-height:13.5pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Designation of reports</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">: Technical Executive</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:13.5pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif"> </span></strong></p> <p style="margin:7.5pt 0.0cm 0.0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:#00a0ce">Position Summary</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">The position will be responsible for supervising a team of technicians handling installations, demonstrations and repair for a full range of digital and mechanical range of products to ensure timely resolution of customer service requests and thus ensuring great customer experience and satisfaction by providing best-in-class after sales service and demonstration. The incumbent is expected to ensure this by following standard procedures, adept handling of the service agency as well as internal resources. The position is required to take ownership by displaying strong empathy to customers’ issues and complaints and ensure resolution within agreed timelines and up-to defined satisfaction standards. </span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Roles and Responsibilities:</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Take ownership to follow and monitor standard procedures and checklists to ensure that all possible customer touch points during standard demonstrations, installations and after sales compliant resolutions have a clear and standard approach to ensure immediate and effective solutions. </span></li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Regularly monitor and improve key service metrics like </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Open job ageing, Resource Utilization, Cost of Service, Customer Satisfaction Score, Meantime to Repair, No. of escalations, etc. and </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">prepare accurate reports</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Monitor the open service requests and continuously follow up with the technicians to ensure timely closure and up to defined satisfaction levels. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Continually provide market and customer insights to the Service head to ensure the </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">improvement of service processes. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">To increase customer Satisfaction Score in the region by displaying proactive mindsets in resolution, doing continuous root cause analysis and sharing learnings within the team to ensure the improvement of satisfaction standards </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Recruit, mentor and develop service technicians and ensure clear instructions, process understanding and communication of performance criteria like turn-around time </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Maintain team rosters, allocation of jobs and territories to ensure a smooth and effective service delivery</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Ensure regular training and development of the service team to hone their technical and customer management skills</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Partner and collaborate with critical stakeholders in the sales team and product management team to ensure communication about customer feedback, to have a one team approach towards the end customer. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Coordinate and ensure timely availability of spare parts in warehouses/ stores at respective locations.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Proactively monitor and maintain optimum inventory level and manage distribution and reverse logistics of the spare parts.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Act as the first point of contact for cases of escalation and provide timely response to customer feedback. Also educate the customer on further escalation points as per the escalation matrix. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Monitor volumes on a regular basis and evaluate the capability of existing service centers to meet the volume-based demands. Calculate the ROI for the ASP/Franchisee to ensure that the ASP/Franchisee is ethically profitable. Recommend addition of service center capability as and when needed along with clear feedback and business case. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Plan and schedule periodic surprise visits to service partners for audits, education on process changes, new product information, etc.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Ensure timely warranty payments to ASP/Franchisee </span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 18.0pt;line-height:13.5pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 18.0pt;line-height:13.5pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Skills Required:</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Strong customer focus and empathy to not only troubleshoot when needed but to ensure proactive mechanisms to deliver on customer delight. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Ability to drive a team with clear goals, instructions, communication and feedback. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Ability to identify problems correctly using root cause analysis with business tools like Fishbone, decision trees, etc. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Ability to collaborate cross-functionally to own customer problems as ONE ASSA ABLOY </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Ability to work under pressure and respond to ambiguous situations with limited information in a calm and patient manner.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Advanced knowledge of MS Excel and PowerPoint </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Good communication both verbal and written. </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Ability to prioritize tasks based on customer and business requirement. </span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 18.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 18.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Educational Qualification and Experience:</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Graduate Engineers or Diploma/ITI qualified candidates in Electronics/ Electrical/Mechanical stream </span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Relevant experience of 5 – 8 years with same industry/ consumer durables/ home appliances</span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black">Note: This job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities. Rather, it is intended only to describe the general nature of the job. Employee may be expected to perform other related duties as required to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.</span></p><p> </p> <p><strong>We are the ASSA ABLOY Group</strong><br>Our people have made us the global leader in access solutions. In return, we open doors for them wherever they go. With nearly 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries, we help billions of people experience a more open world. Our innovations make all sorts of spaces – physical and virtual – safer, more secure, and easier to access. </p> <p>As an employer, we value results – not titles, or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally.</p> <p>As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.</p>