Manager Customer Services

Career Area:
Product Support

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Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers, municipalities, and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world‑class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands.

We're committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations!

Directs all activities and staff for technical field service programs for product installation, troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and customization. Build service relationships with external and internal customers to facilitate enterprise strategy. Supervises and mentors junior service personnel in service policies and technical resolutions. Acts as a point of escalation for service technical and scheduling issues. Facilitates cross functional training between teams on new product elements as pertaining to service.

• Creates and manages field service infrastructure; establishes and maintains the training readiness of the organization.
• Directs, motivates and develops the team.
• Supports the culture and values of the organization.
• Facilitates smooth workflow; ensures high standards and quality of technical work.
• Drives the development of work plans, budgets, schedules and evaluation criteria for field service activities, projects and personnel.
• Designs and prices field services to meet demand and both timing and financial targets; negotiates customized technical support agreements.

Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions. Facilitates creation of the 'right' products and services to resolve customer business issues. Fosters strong customer relationships via delivery on commitments, open communication, and on-ongoing feedback/improvement. Advises others on creating customer focused environments in various scenarios.

Anticipates customer needs, focusing efforts to proactively meet needs and exceed customer expectations. Measures and observes customer satisfaction levels to ascertain and implement service improvement alternatives. Communicates and models the criticality of customer focus as an organizational strategy.

Data Gathering & Analysis: Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools, techniques, and processes; ability to collect and synthesize data from a variety of stakeholders and sources in an objective manner to reach a conclusion, goal, or judgment. Advises on advanced data gathering and analysis methodologies and technologies. Oversees data gathering and analysis activities within the organization. Documents sources and validates the accuracy of data analysis by evaluating the pros and cons of data analysis methods used.

Implements procedures and policies within a data processing function. Teaches others how to improve the validity and reliability of data used in various analyses. Evaluates best practices of data gathering and analysis within the industry.

Service Excellence: Knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner. Anticipates customers' needs and satisfies them proactively. Resolves complex customer complaints or problems. Teaches others how to deliver excellent customer service in a variety of settings. Applies the concept of 'Moments of Truth' to customer service.

Participates in developing a variety of effective ways to deal with difficult customers. Recovers from a service failure in a way that enhances customer's esteem of the organization.

Consulting: Knowledge of techniques, roles, and responsibilities in providing technical or business guidance to clients, both internal and external; ability to apply consulting knowledge appropriately. Analyzes and fully documents client requirements. Applies experience to developing and executing multiple…