Customer Support Manager

Prestwick Aerosystems; New Delhi; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbus India Private Limited is seeking a Customer Support Manager to serve as the focal point for Support & Services, driving customer satisfaction and continuous improvement to guarantee fleet availability across the customer’s operations. The role involves coordinating specialists, guiding action plans, collecting feedback, and strengthening customer confidence for business growth.

Responsibilities include organizing regular customer meetings, communicating S&S topics, reporting performance,

Qualifications

• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with customers.
• Clear spoken and written communication in English; local language as needed.
• Ability to synthesize data into actionable insights for stakeholders.
• Knowledge of aviation and helicopter basics is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Define customer satisfaction roadmap aligned with expectations.
• Organize regular meetings with customers and capture priorities.
• Provide customers with information on support and services, including catalogs and changes.
• Collect feedback and monitor progress using CRM Salesforce for ongoing improvement.
• Identify actions to address priority issues and ensure timely resolutions.
• Monitor performance metrics (flight hours, parts usage) and coordinate with experts.
• Contribute to revenue generation and lead cross-functional improvement plans.
• Manage customer parts support contracts.

Skills

Customer relationship

Communication

Analysis & reporting

Technical knowledge

Tools

Salesforce

SAP

eOrdering

Web MRO

Job description

1. Mission The Customer Support Manager (CSM) is Customer’s focal point regarding Support & Services, accountable for customer satisfaction and driving continuous improvement to guarantee global services performance for the customer and increase fleet availability, covering the entirety of the customer’s fleet. In order to carry out this mission, the CSM will:

• Coordinate support disciplines & experts, in order to bring a quick and adequate solution to customer needs in priority and/or exceptional cases
• Set up and follow up any operational action plan to deal with customer concerns, complaints and/or dissatisfaction
• Collect customer satisfaction, needs or expectations to relay the customer context for further use within AH
• Build customer satisfaction and confidence to enable business growth.
• Ensure overall performance in terms of parts availability (new and repaired) as part of the front office.

2. Main Activities

• To contribute in the definition of the key objectives of the Customer Satisfaction Roadmap for customers in their customer portfolio Develop a customer strategy that is aligned with the Customer’s expectations and shared with the other members of the Front Office Team, followed in the CRM Salesforce
• To organize regular meetings/visits with customers in their customer portfolio Listen to and exchange with the Customer to recover the customer’s priorities (such as availability, spares delivery, focal point responsiveness, maintenance duration) needed to define the customer strategy, as well as their feedback and priority issues relating to operational performance (prepare necessary reports presenting key data for the end customer), followed in the CRM Salesforce
• To provide customer with key information on support and services Communicate S&S Discipline contents to the Customer on hot topics, performance, improvement initiatives, services catalog key changes, and recommendations for mutual benefit Guide the customer by helping them to understand our products and organization better, and improving the way we work with them
• To collect, discuss and manage customer feedback and knowledge Collect customer feedback on S&S interactions since last exchange, review progress on current action plan, recover customer perceptions on latest hot topics, recover customer needs and activity forecasts at strategic and operational level, followed in the CRM Salesforce
• To listen, understand and propose any required actions on Customer priority and/or exceptional issues Understand the customer priority and/or exceptional issues that may occur and require immediate action through transverse management of S&S disciplines and ensure each of them respect their commitments through to resolution, followed in the CRM Salesforce As the customer’s preferred focal point for S&S, elevate if and where needed to secure the resolution of customer issues
• To monitor support and services performance at an individual customer level Analyze activity levels related to Customer’s operations such as flight hours, parts consumptions, future trends and coordinate with functional specialists to provide further analysis and ensure key players provide essential reports. Assess fit gap between observed performance and customer perception to support functional specialists in identifying potential process improvements, while respecting our internal financial constraints
• To achieve booking targets and financial objectives (Down payments, Cash collection…)
• To follow-up the Overdues status and define the relevant actions with the Customer to recover the outstanding invoices.
• Contribute to customer satisfaction through monitoring of logistics KPIs (OTR/OTD, customer complaints, late orders, etc.)
• Be the voice of the customer internally and contribute to revenue generation
• Support supply chain initiatives and lead cross-functional action plans aimed at improving the level of service provided to customers
• Manage customer parts support contracts

3. Key Skills and Competencies

• Customer Relationship Ability to set up and maintain good relationship with customer Ability to understand customer’s expectations, know the customer and their organization Ability to support the catalog of services and respond to customer’s requests
• Communication and Coordination Ability to communicate clearly with the customer, in local language as well as in English Ability to integrate unprecedented and/or complex situations Ability to clearly communicate internally on a target and involve necessary stakeholders for target achievement Ability to establish sustainable external and internal AH stakeholder networks Ability to manage stressful situations
• Analysis and Reporting Ability to prepare, conduct and synthesize a Customer meeting Ability to extract root causes from complex situations Ability to understand and analyze performance activity levels related to a Customer’s operations and identify non-performance levers
• Technical Knowledge Ability to use Salesforce as the Customer Relationship Management tool Knowledge on aeronautics and helicopter basics Knowledge on AH programs and S&S basics Knowledge on AH technical publication basics Knowledge of the Material Support environment Knowledge of SAP, eOrdering and Web MRO

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company: Airbus India Private Limited Employment Type: Permanent ------- Experience Level: Professional Job Family: Customer Account and Service Management

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all.

We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to [e-mail].

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Airbus pioneers sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world. The Company constantly innovates to provide efficient and technologically-advanced solutions in aerospace, defence, and connected services. In commercial aircraft, Airbus offers modern and fuel-efficient airliners and associated services. Airbus is also a European leader in defence and security and one of the world's leading space businesses. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions and services worldwide.

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