Service Operations Manager (EMEA & APAC)

MVG | Microwave Vision Group; Villejust; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

MVG - Microwave Vision Group is seeking a Service Operations Manager to lead the After-Sales & Services organization across EMEA and APAC, acting as the central operational authority for tiered service delivery. You will own the service operations lifecycle from intake to resolution and drive continuous improvement in performance.

You will manage distributed technical teams, engage senior stakeholders, track KPIs, and collaborate with commercial teams to unlock upsell and renewal opportunities

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering, Operations Management, or a related technical or business discipline.
• Experience in service operations and after-sales leadership within complex technical environments.
• Strong escalation management and KPI reporting.
• Experience with multi-level teams, travel, and training programs.
• Proficiency with Salesforce, Zendesk, or similar; English proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day service ops across EMEA and APAC with clear customer communication.
• Manage escalation pathways across L1-L3 and engineering teams.
• Develop and coordinate the service team, including workload distribution and travel planning.
• Define and drive the service training framework and certifications.
• Oversee service KPIs, reporting and performance reviews across ticket volumes, SLA adherence, and customer satisfaction.

Skills

Team leadership

Escalation management

KPI tracking

Cross-functional

Customer communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Operations Management

Related technical discipline

Tools

Salesforce

Zendesk

CRM platforms

Job description

About the Role

MVG is looking for a Service Operations Manager to lead and coordinate the After-Sales & Services organization across EMEA and APAC, acting as the central operational authority for a tiered service delivery structure. This role owns the service operations lifecycle from case intake, escalation and priority arbitration to team coordination, KPI tracking and continuous improvement, ensuring responsive, technically excellent customer support. It is ideal for an experienced service operations or after-sales leader who can manage distributed technical teams, engage senior stakeholders and drive measurable service performance improvements.

About MVG

MVG - Microwave Vision Group - is the global leader in electromagnetic field measurement solutions. With 400+ employees, offices across 4 continents, and over 25 years of consecutive growth, we help the world's most innovative companies test, validate, and push the boundaries of wireless technology. Our mission: Testing Connectivity for a Wireless World. Join us to shape the future.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day service operations across EMEA and APAC, ensuring service requests, inquiries and complaints are logged, prioritized, routed and tracked through to resolution with clear customer communication.
• Manage escalation pathways across L1, L2, L3 and internal engineering teams, providing structured decision-making support on high-severity and cross-functional cases.
• Develop and coordinate the service team, including workload distribution, travel planning, onboarding, compliance with travel policies and a culture of accountability and continuous learning.
• Define and drive the service training framework by identifying skill gaps, setting roleappropriate training and certification requirements, and coordinating internal and external training resources.
• Oversee service KPIs, reporting and performance reviews across ticket volumes, SLA adherence, resolution times, resource utilization, customer satisfaction and team efficiency.
• Optimize service quality and continuous improvement by analyzing recurring failures, service report quality and intervention outcomes to strengthen processes and customer experience.
• Collaborate with senior management and commercial teams to support service transformation, improve operational processes and capture upsell, upgrade and renewal opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering, Operations Management, or a related technical or business discipline.
• Demonstrated experience in service operations, technical support management, or after-sales leadership within a complex technical environment, with a proven record of managing multi-level teams and improving service performance.
• Strong understanding of tiered support structures and escalation management, including priority arbitration, cross-functional dependency management and decisionmaking under pressure.
• Experience defining, monitoring and reporting service KPIs, including ticket management metrics, SLA compliance, customer satisfaction indicators and resource workload analysis.
• Proven ability to design and implement training programs and development frameworks for technical service teams, including certification or compliance requirements.
• Solid understanding of field service logistics, including travel coordination, work safety requirements, spare parts management and international resource planning.
• Proficiency with ticketing, CRM and service management platforms such as Salesforce, Zendesk or equivalent, plus professional written and spoken English.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with antenna measurement, EMC, RF testing or related high-technology environments.
• Prior experience managing geographically distributed or international service teams across time zones, cultures and organizational layers.
• Experience working in an international matrix organization with R&D, product management, sales or other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Additional language skills such as French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese or Japanese; familiarity with ERP or field service tools such as SAP or Salesforce Field Service is also valued.