This role is responsible for leading end-to-end team of ~500 associates dispersed across Customer Support Delivery and Operations and Business Intelligence teams. Serve as the acting on-site leader in the Pune, India hub.

As the CoE Leader, you will be the front-facing point of contact to internal clients including the in-market leader(s) to lead and drive the strategy of our teams in the service & support provided to our clients across various areas. 

The role will be responsible to bring all teams within the Customer Organization together, strategize and bring a uniform culture, streamline processes and increase collaboration to achieve a One team approach.

This role involves maintaining and leading a large team; hence, you will be responsible for employee experience and the development of associates.  

Responsibilities:

Customer Support Delivery & Employee Experiences:

• Lead the regional hub of customer of high-performing customer support leads, associates, and program managers, fostering a diverse and inclusive, results-driven team culture of engagement, growth, empowerment, and excitement. 
• Develop and execute the strategy and plan for growth of the support organization, which includes analyzing cost structure, service consistency and process optimization for quality team structure.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other leaders from product engineering, services delivery, technical sales, and finance to find and resolve issues promptly, and to recommend implementation of innovations helping the customer and support operations.
• Develop and align standardized metrics which reflect the support health of the team and overall customer sentiment.
• Evaluate technical Support systems for innovations and enhancements to the overall customer and employee experiences (i.e. case, troubleshooting, and knowledge management) to increase organizational efficiency for the operations of the global support teams.
• Communicate effectively with senior staff and corporate work streams on key issues while partnering with cross functional stakeholders
• Manage customer escalations and relationships, working with customers on support issues, individual support action plans and customer requests.
• Ensure customer satisfaction reflects the highest quality of support delivery and follow-up with customers on survey feedback regularly.

Hub strategy and Client Engagement:

• Responsible for setting up the Hub strategy in India (Pune) and drive priorities for the business
• Establish a strategy to grow the business by delivering high quality and relevant solutions
• Drive to build & retain a high performing team and focus around providing world class service
• Bring the voice of the clients (in-market, onshore) into internal business planning discussion around service development
• Support solutions development by enabling the Customer discovery process & Panel on demand
• Frequently measure and improve upon customer satisfaction metrics
• Build relationships and chart out strategies with in-market teams and onshore leaders to ensure standardization and uniformity of processes and employee engagement
• Quickly adapt to deployment of new products, services and changes

Employee Engagement

• Build meaningful relationships across employees at all levels in local team to instill pride
• Strategically lead and develop a large team of direct and indirect reports and create a vision for talent development within the team
• Adapt the flex-work initiative and build a uniform and employee friendly culture by leveraging on Company culture and bringing in industry best practices
• Make sure the Company is seen as a great place to work for different and diverse profiles that are relevant to our future business
• Possess the ability to recruit, lead, develop and engage a high-performing team
• Work closely with the HR Business Partners and relevant stakeholders to develop and implement strategic career paths and talent development

Workforce and financials management

• Build, plan and execute operating plans for the Hub with a focus on driving higher levels of client/stakeholder support and allocate resources towards critical accounts while driving productivity and managing cost
• Defining and executing plans to ensure employee attrition stays manageable and does not jeopardize growth ambitions
• Get personally involved in critical situations – guides and coaches the team to make every input a winning service
• Work with functional teams to improve the service levels and automate processes
• Strategize with HR Business Partners on team restructuring and ensuring relevance of every associate at every level
• Work closely with HR Business Partner and Finance Business Partner to ensure budget controls and drive productivity target

Role Requirements

The ideal candidate will possess a minimum of 15 years of experience in Research and Analytics, working with Customer Relationship Management or Operations divisions. The ideal candidate should also possess, at a minimum, the following qualifications, and attributes:  

• Experience in developing and implementing strategic business plans; demonstrated capability to balance short term focus with long term planning to deliver business objectives.
• Demonstrates strong leadership and strategic thinking; Preferred experience in building organizational capabilities (lean operations; project and talent management).
• Solid track record for engagement and delivery research or related solutions or projects
• A passion for data, insights, and improvement
• Strong financial and operational acumen
• Experience in negotiation and conflict management
• A client centric approach that favors problem solving and long-term value creation
• Effective communication skills with the ability to manage numerous stakeholders.
• Strong influencing skills
• Excellent cross- functions cooperation skills
• Excellent written and oral skills in English
• Multi-functional business experience leading, dynamic organizations, including strong team leadership experience. 

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

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