CSC Operations Manager (all genders)

HRS GmbH; Köln; Vor Ort; EUR 55.000 - 75.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading travel technology company in Cologne is seeking a Customer Service Operations Manager to oversee external customer service teams and improve service quality. The ideal candidate has experience in customer service, strong communication skills, and proficiency in German and English. This role offers an attractive salary along with incentives.

Leistungen

Attractive remuneration

Annual or multi-year bonus

Work equipment provided

Qualifikationen

• Experience in customer service area.
• Track record in improving service functions, ideally in SaaS.
• Strong understanding of customer service operations and metrics.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Analytical mindset with data-driven decision-making experience.
• Experience with global outsourced customer service teams.
• Familiarity with customer satisfaction tools.

Aufgaben

• Manage external customer service teams to optimize service experience.
• Set team goals, monitor progress, and onboard staff.
• Improve customer service quality through surveys and process redesign.
• Define and optimize processes for customer service channels.
• Set up training and coaching for customer service workforce.

Kenntnisse

Customer service experience

Improvement of service functions

Understanding of call center metrics

Excellent communication skills

Analytical mindset

Fluency in German and English

Jobbeschreibung

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HRS, a pioneer in business travel, aims to elevate every stay through innovative technology. With over 50 years of experience, their digital platform, driven by ProcureTech, TravelTech, and FinTech, transforms how companies and travelers Stay, Work, and Pay.

ProcureTech digitally revolutionizes lodging procurement, connecting corporations and suppliers in a cutting-edge ecosystem. This enables seamless efficiency and automation, surpassing travelers' expectations.

TravelTech redefines the online lodging experience, offering personalized content from selection to check-in, ensuring an unparalleled journey for corporate travelers.

In FinTech, HRS introduces advancements like mobile banking and digital payments, turning corporate back offices into touchless lodging enablers, eliminating legacy cost barriers. The innovative 2-click book-to-pay feature streamlines interactions for travelers and hoteliers.

Combining these technology propositions, HRS unlocks exponential catalyst effects. Their data-driven focus delivers value-added services and high-return network effects, creating substantial customer value.

HRS\'s exponential growth since 1972 serves over 35% of the global Fortune 500 and leading hotel chains.

Join HRS to shape the future of business travel, empowered by a culture of growth and setting new industry standards worldwide.

BUSINESS UNIT

The Customer Service Center serves as a crucial hub for addressing customer as well as hotel inquiries, concerns, and issues related to the HRS’ products and services. Its primary purpose is to enhance customer satisfaction by providing timely and effective support, troubleshooting, and offering assistance with reservations or travel-related queries. Through efficient communication channels and knowledgeable representatives, the Customer Service Center plays a pivotal role in maintaining positive customer experiences and fostering loyalty.

POSITION

You want to create innovative solutions by taking the customer view first? Solutions that help our customers and hotels optimize their experience by offering exceptional customer service along the journey? Then join our team and create an impact as an intrapreneur.

The Customer Service (CS) Operations Manager is responsible for overseeing external teams of customer service agents with our call center service partners for our HRS Enterprise Solutions Business Unit globally, servicing traveller and hotels.

The primary duty is the enablement of agents answering customer questions and resolving problems, acting as escalation point while setting team goals, monitoring progress, onboarding and training staff members.

You will actively shape the future of the customer service chapter for our corporate customers in close collaboration with our Director of Customer Service. Together with your team you will build a service experience for our customers that aims to solve every customer or hotel complaint satisfyingly with the first interaction of our customer service workforce.

While managing quality assurance of our service level agreements, you actively contribute in idea generation and execution to simultaneously drive savings in customer service through optimization of processes and automation.

CHALLENGE

Day-to-Day External Workforce Management:

• Manage and coordinate our external CS workforce (e.g. 3rd party provider and call center agents) to optimize service experience, performance, processes and tools for service operations
• Implement productivity, quality, and customer-service standards
• Define, monitor and steer SLAs of our external CS workforce for our customer and hotel service channels: Chat, Voice and E-Mail
• Handle escalation with external CS workforce and HRS internal teams (tech and customer / hotel teams)

Continuous Process Improvements:

• Improve customer service quality results by conducting surveys and studying, evaluating, and re-designing processes and establishing and communicating service metrics and monitoring and analyzing results
• Define and optimize processes for case handling in the above customer service channels
• Contribute customer service information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews: Based on data you understand the top customer contact reasons to derive customer needs that can be automized or optimized to solve customer complaints satisfyingly in collaboration with the respective departments
• Execute regular quality assurance process with the external providers
• Determine customer service requirements by maintaining contact with customers and visiting operational environments

External Workforce Training:

• Setup and optimize processes to support training of our CS workforce
• Develop training and coaching ceremonies with teams and agents to improve operational performance

FOR THIS EXCITING MISSION YOU ARE EQUIPPED WITH...

• Work experience in customer service area
• Track record in improving a customer service function, ideally in SaaS environment
• Strong understanding of customer service operations, call center metrics, and quality assurance
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
• Analytical mindset with experience in data-driven decision-making
• Experience with global outsourced customer service teams
• Familiarity with customer satisfaction tools (e.g., CSAT, NPS, QA scorecards)
• Business level fluency in German and English
• Location near to one of the HRS core offices in Germany (Cologne, Berlin) is a must

PERSPECTIVE

Access to a global network of a globally united and mutually responsible “Tribe of Intrapreneurs” that is passionately dedicated to renew the travel industry and while doing so reinvent the ways how businesses stay, work and pay.

Our entrepreneurial driven environment of full ownership and execution focus offers you the playground to contribute to a greater mission, while growing personally and professionally throughout this unique journey. You will continuously learn from a radical culture of retrospectives and continuous improvement and actively contribute to making business life better, smarter and more sustainable.

LOCATION, MOBILITY, INCENTIVE

The attractive remuneration is in line with the market and, in addition to a fixed monthly salary, all necessary work equipment and mobility, will also include an annual or multi-year bonus.