Position: Retail Applications Team Lead (B3)
Organisation: Retail Applications
Location: Cebu, Philippines
Role Overview
The Retail Apps Team Lead provides operational and people leadership within a second-level retail support environment. The role acts as a senior point of control during escalations, service exceptions, and complex support scenarios, ensuring clear ownership, timely resolution, and a consistent customer experience.
The Team Lead works closely with Other support levels, agents and team’s supervisor to maintain and improve operational runbooks, applying real-world service learnings to strengthen quality and repeatability. End-to-end accountability is held for service performance, SLA delivery, and outcome-based results, with a strong focus on proactive risk management and corrective action.
This role combines hands-on operational oversight with coaching-led people leadership and practical performance management. It supports second-level retail operations and works closely with Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 teams to ensure smooth incident flow, strong investigative quality, and high customer confidence.
Key Responsibilities
Service Delivery & Operational Leadership
- Provide day-to-day leadership for a globally aligned retail support team operating in a medium-volume, high-complexity environment, with the ability to assign team members to support other teams, products, or services when required
- Ensure incidents, requests, and escalations are handled consistently and in line with defined service standards, SLAs, and escalation paths
- Act as the first point of leadership escalation for technical, procedural, and customer experience issues, including those spanning multiple teams or products
- Own scheduling, shift planning, and coverage management to ensure the right capacity across a 24x7 support model
- Maintain operational oversight during assigned shifts, adjusting coverage and workload to meet changing service demand
- Balance service coverage with quality, keeping customer outcomes as the primary focus while enabling controlled support of other areas where needed
Team Leadership & Coaching
- Lead, coach, and support team members to drive reliable performance, growing technical capability, and professional development
- Provide regular, structured feedback through quality reviews, performance discussions, and coaching sessions
- Support capability development across technical skills, process knowledge, and customer communication
- Build a collaborative, accountable, and customer-centric team culture
- Guide team members in following internal processes, customer requirements, and compliance expectations
- Foster a collaborative, accountable, and customer-focused team culture.
- Contribute to performance management activities, recognition programs, and team development initiatives.
Quality, Performance & Reporting
- Monitor team performance and service quality to identify issues, trends, and improvement opportunities
- Carry out regular quality reviews and turn findings into practical coaching and process improvements
- Own routine operational reporting (daily, weekly, monthly) and clearly highlight key points for leadership
- Use performance data to address process gaps, service risks, and workload inefficiencies before they escalated
- Support ongoing improvement efforts focused on service consistency, quality, and productivity
Escalation & Stakeholder Management
- Manage customer and internal escalations in line with established escalation frameworks
- Communicate clearly and calmly during escalations, maintaining confidence with customers and internal teams
- Work closely with peer Team Leads, senior support tiers, and management to achieve timely resolution
- Ensure clean and structured handoff to advanced support teams when escalation thresholds are met
- Assign and prioritize tickets/incidents based on severity, business impact, and engineer expertise.
- Balance workload across the team to ensure optimal efficiency and coverage.
Documentation, Knowledge & Process Improvement
- Ensure incidents and customer records are accurately documented and kept up to date
- Drive adoption of Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS) practices, ensuring knowledge is created, maintained, and reused effectively
- Ensure team adherence to ITIL standards and service management practices relevant to the support function
- Support company-led improvement initiatives related to knowledge management, service delivery, and process maturity
- Encourage creation and ongoing improvement of knowledge articles and operational documentation
- Identify recurring issues or systemic problems and contribute to problem management and service improvement activities
Working Model
- Operates within a multi-tier global support organisation
- Works closely with technical, operational, and leadership stakeholders
- Covers scheduled shifts within a 24x7 support model
Skills & Experience
Required
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Advanced English communication skills (written and verbal)
- Strong background in a technical or service desk support environment
- Demonstrated people leadership experience (formal or informal)
- Strong customer focus with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Comfortable using performance data to guide decisions and improvement
- Proficient with standard office and reporting tools (MS Office or similar)
- Previous experience as a Team Lead or Supervisor
- Exposure to retail, POS, SCO, or related technology environments
- Experience with quality reviews, performance management, or reporting
- Knowledge of ITIL principles and incident management best practices.
- Strong Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or similar analytical tooling
Core Competencies
- Customer-first mindset with strong ownership and accountability
- Clear, confident, and professional communication
- Ability to remain calm and effective in high-pressure situations
- Continuous improvement and problem-solving mindset
- Collaborative and inclusive leadership approach
Compliance & Professional Standards
- Complete all mandatory and recommended training requirements.
- Adhere to company policies, procedures, information security, confidentiality, and compliance requirements.
- Maintain professional conduct and uphold organizational values in all interactions.
- Perform other duties reasonably related to the role and business needs as assigned by management.