Ocean Customer Experience Team Lead - US

APM Terminals; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Maersk is seeking a Team Leader to guide a 12-20 member Customer Experience Associates team supporting Ocean customers in the US market, via email and chat. The role drives service delivery, quality, and stakeholder coordination while ensuring adherence to SOPs and governance.

Based in Chennai, you will oversee performance against CSAT, FCR, TAT, and productivity targets, coach for performance and development, and partner with internal teams to resolve customer issues and improve processes.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of overall professional experience, preferably in an International BPO / Customer Experience environment.
• Prior experience in handling international customers and global processes will be preferred.
• Candidates should have excellent communication, customer handling, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of 12-20 customer experience associates.
• Conduct regular team huddles, coaching sessions, skip-level discussions, and performance reviews.
• Drive employee engagement, motivation, and retention initiatives.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and psychological safety.
• Support talent development and succession planning within the team.
• Ensure achievement of key service delivery metrics and customer commitments.
• Monitor daily productivity, workload balancing, queue management, and task allocation.
• Manage service recovery and escalation handling for customer-critical issues.
• Ensure compliance with established SOPs, work instructions, and governance standards.
• Drive process stabilization and support business continuity requirements.
• Deliver exceptional customer support through effective case management and timely resolution.
• Drive improvements in customer satisfaction and customer experience metrics.
• Partner with stakeholders to address recurring customer pain points.
• Ensure effective handling of customer queries related to bookings, documentation, shipment milestones, invoicing, and logistics exceptions.

Skills

Communication skills

Customer handling

Stakeholder management

Job description

The Team Leader is responsible for leading a team of Customer Experience Associates supporting Ocean customers in the US market through email and chat channels. The role is accountable for driving operational excellence, customer satisfaction, service delivery, productivity, quality, and people development while ensuring adherence to process governance and customer commitments. The Team Leader acts as the first line of leadership, enabling the team to deliver an exceptional customer experience while continuously improving operational performance and employee engagement.

Experience & Shift Requirements

Minimum 10 years of overall professional experience, preferably with a strong background in an International BPO / Customer Experience environment. Prior experience in handling international customers and global processes will be preferred. Candidates should have excellent communication, customer handling, and stakeholder management skills. Must be comfortable working in the US shift: 6:30 PM to 3:30 AM IST. Candidates should be flexible to work in a fast-paced, customer-centric environment and support business requirements.

Team Management & Leadership

Lead and manage a team of 12-20 customer experience associates. Conduct regular team huddles, coaching sessions, skip-level discussions, and performance reviews. Drive employee engagement, motivation, and retention initiatives. Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and psychological safety. Support talent development and succession planning within the team.

Operational Excellence

Ensure achievement of key service delivery metrics and customer commitments. Monitor daily productivity, workload balancing, queue management, and task allocation. Manage service recovery and escalation handling for customer-critical issues. Ensure compliance with established SOPs, work instructions, and governance standards. Drive process stabilization and support business continuity requirements.

Customer Experience Management

Deliver exceptional customer support through effective case management and timely resolution. Drive improvements in customer satisfaction and customer experience metrics. Partner with stakeholders to address recurring customer pain points. Ensure effective handling of customer queries related to bookings, documentation, shipment milestones, invoicing, and logistics exceptions.

Performance Management

Monitor and improve team performance against KPIs including: Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) First Contact Resolution (FCR) Closed Resolved Rate Turnaround Time (TAT) Productivity Schedule Adherence Quality Scores. Conduct root cause analysis for performance gaps and implement corrective action plans. Create and execute performance improvement plans where required.

Stakeholder Management

Act as the key contact between operations, support functions, and business stakeholders. Communicate operational updates, risks, customer escalations, and business impacts effectively. Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

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A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated container logistics company working to connect and simplify its customer's supply chains. As the global leader in shipping services, the company operates in 130 countries and employs roughly 100,000 people. With simple end-to-end offering of products and digital services, seamless customer engagement and a superior end-to-end delivery network, Maersk enables its customers to trade and grow by transporting goods anywhere - all over the world. For more information click here. All the way.