Senior Support Account Manager - German Speaking

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What you get to do in this role:

• Deeply understand customer business strategies, challenges and IT landscape. Possess the ability to deliver business value by aligning ServiceNow solutions to address the customer’s short and long-term support needs
• Coordinate internal resources, including technical and customer support, professional services and management to meet account performance objectives and customers’ expectations
• Ability to build credibility through action and responsiveness resulting in the perception that no matter what the issue, you are the customer’s go to champion within ServiceNow
• Participate in regularly scheduled conference calls and onsite meetings to ensure the continual flow of information with timely updates on all open issues and on-going projects
• Facilitate weekly summary status reports; quarterly services reviews and detailed review of root cause analysis findings when applicable
• Manage, document and report on performance against service level agreements (SLA's) and where SLA's are not being met document and oversee an action plan that will result in meeting and exceeding those commitments routinely
• Review open incidents, problems and enhancement requests communicating proper priority and direction to responsible ServiceNow teams to ensure a timely customer satisfying result
• Act as an escalation point and advocate for critical customer issues.
• Understand and explain ServiceNow application, features and benefits as it relates to customer needs
• Manage special projects as assigned by management to meet customer and cross-functional team needs

To be successful in this role you have:

The successful candidate will have experience in a high-tech environment, working with companies with large IT organizations utilizing ITIL best practices in complex, global deployments. Your experience should also include a successful track record in support management applying strong project and task-management abilities to meet your customer deliverables. You are a creative problem solver who can lead internal teams in solving a customer issue.

Essential:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and German language (minimum B2)
• Account management experience
• Fundamental understanding of ITSM in large organizations
• Comfortable interacting with all levels of management
• Working knowledge of ITIL incident, problem and release management process and procedures
• Ability to effectively work with tight schedules and fast paced environment to minimize problem impact on the customer
• Ability to work cohesively within a global model
• Broad technical understanding in a cloud software environment
• Have a growth & collaborative mindset

Advantageous:

• Experience with ServiceNow will be considered an advantage
• Experience dealing with technical support teams
• Experience of working in an international environment
• Experience in Project Management capabilities and principles

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