Customer Support Manager (Escalations)

Ingram Micro Philippines BPO LLC; Manila; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Ingram Micro Philippines BPO LLC is seeking a Manager to lead the Global L3 Escalations function, overseeing resolution of high-severity customer issues across enterprise, strategic, and retail segments. The role drives incident management, cross-functional coordination, and timely stakeholder communication to support rapid issue resolution.

Responsibilities include owning escalation processes, driving executive-level incident response, and coaching Global Escalation Associates.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years in Escalation Management, Customer Success, Technical Support, Operations, or Service Delivery with 3+ years in leadership roles managing critical customer issues.
• Experience interacting with enterprise, strategic or retail customers.
• High adversity quotient and track record of timely resolution and customer retention.
• Able to work across varying time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve global escalation management processes, severities, SLAs, and engagement models.
• Establish ownership and resolution pathways across support, operations, sales, vendor, and product teams.
• Drive executive-level incident response and coordinate cross-functional resources during critical situations.
• Ensure consistent customer communications, status updates, and recovery plans during escalations.
• Serve as senior customer advocate during business-critical escalations.
• Lead, coach, and develop Global Escalation Associates.
• Establish incident management best practices and response standards.

Skills

Escalation management

Customer success

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication tools (Teams)

Tools

CRM systems

Zendesk

Job description

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Job Description:

The Manager leads the Global L3 Escalations function, overseeing the resolution of high-severity customer issues that present significant operational, financial, reputational, or customer retention risk. Working within established global escalation frameworks and operating procedures, the role drives effective incident management, cross-functional coordination, and timely stakeholder communication to support rapid issue resolution.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve global escalation management processes, severity definitions, SLAs, and engagement models.
• Establish clear ownership, accountability, and resolution pathways across support, operations, sales, vendor, and product teams.
• Drive executive-level incident response and coordinate cross-functional resources during critical situations.
• Ensure consistent customer communications, status updates, and recovery plans during escalations.
• Serve as senior customer advocate during business-critical escalations.
• Lead, coach, and develop Global Escalation Associates.
• Establish incident management best practices and response standards.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years in Escalation Management, Customer Success, Technical Support, Operations, or Service Delivery with 3+ years in leadership roles managing critical customer issues.
• Experience supporting and directly interacting with different customer segments, including but not limited to enterprise, strategic or retail customers.
• High AQ (Adversity Quotient) and extensive experience overseeing high-urgency customer experience cases and escalations, with a strong track record of driving timely resolution, customer retention, and service recovery.
• Able to work in varying time zones to support the business.
• Regularly apply expertise in day-to-day activities.
• May fill the role of a staff member in complex situations.
• Experience in communication tools across telephone, email and Video Conferencing (Teams), as well as client, case management and ticketing platforms (CRM, Zendesk, etc.)

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