Job Description

As a member of the Support organization, your focus is to deliver post-sales support and solutions to the Oracle customer base while serving as an advocate for customer needs. This involves resolving post-sales non-technical customer inquiries via phone and electronic means, as well as, technical questions regarding the use of and troubleshooting for our Electronic Support Services. A primary point of contact for customers, you are responsible for facilitating customer relationships with Support and providing advice and assistance to internal Oracle employees on diverse customer situations and escalated issues.

In this role, you will be considered the lead customer liaison for 4 -10 strategic, top-revenue Support accounts, and will attend one-on-one meetings with representatives of the strategic accounts. You will be responsible for managing internal projects, such as creating internal training curricula and schedules, presenting across lines of businesses, identifying and driving productivity improvement opportunities, coordinating, preparing and qualifying Premier Analysts for Customer Visits and employee mentoring.

Job duties are varied and complex, needing independent judgment. May have project lead role. Because of the nature of this position, a proven track record of demonstrated working skills including, but not limited to, excellent verbal and written communication skills, project management skills, ability to multitask and work under pressure, and (most importantly) an unabbreviated commitment to ensuring customer success. Bachelor's Degree in either communications or information systems, previous account management and customer-focused experience, training experience in a software environment, prior working knowledge of or the desire to quickly learn about Oracle's products, and six years related experience.



Oracle Hospitality delivers a wide range of software, hardware, and related services—along with a rapidly growing portfolio of cloud solutions—to enable our customers in the hospitality industry to provide superior service and experience to their guests anywhere.
The Oracle Global Support Escalations & Incidents Team is the primary point of contact for escalations and incidents for Global Customer Support. This team provides 24x7 coverage for global customers and internal stakeholders.
As an Escalation and Incident Manager on Duty you will have a primary role in the Escalation and Incident process globally and deliver best-in-class service to our customers. You will act as a bridge between our customers and internal teams/stakeholders, advocating for customer priorities and ensuring their requests are driven to resolution towards their satisfaction. You will be required to work closely with technical teams, application, infrastructure teams and internal stakeholders to achieve resolution of the reported problems.
The ideal candidate would be comfortable to handle multiple tasks and deliver against tight deadlines while maintaining a high level of quality and increased customer satisfaction. The right candidate would be comfortable handling critical escalations and incidents, manage the customer experience and show end-to-end ownership of issues until resolution.
Responsibilities: Deliver first-class Service to Oracle Hospitality customers - management of escalations for our global customers (logging, assignment, progression and communication internally and to customer) - availability over the support lines for escalation calls - management of incidents for on-premise and hosted customers - increase visibility and awareness of Incidents across the various lines of business - effectively communicate with all stakeholders; both internal and external participants, throughout the duration of the incident or escalation - engage and collaborate with technical teams to drive resolution of incidents and escalations - deliver a consistent and professional Incident & escalation Management process Globally - proactively review to prevent recurrence of issues - deliver daily reporting to management and internal stakeholders - provide software and systems technical support for Oracle Hospitality products: OPERA V5, OPERA Cloud & adjacent products - provide guidance and resolution for a wide range of technical and non-technical customer requests including, but not limited to: product configuration and compatibility, analyze software and hardware faults, license reconciliation, entitlements, product availability, etc. - Contribute to process/service improvement and innovation - Contribute to knowledge sharing
Skills & Experience

• Past experience of technical support, service desk operations (incident, escalation management) or hospitality sector
• Advanced level of English
• 1-2 years experience in hospitality or technical support sector are desirable
• Excellent communication skills and impeccable phone etiquette;
• Customer focused – has the ability to empathize with customers and is able to deliver great customer service to required standards in a professional and polite manner
• Excellent analytical troubleshooting skills and ability to own problems through to resolution
• Teamwork – candidates will need to be strong team players, who support their colleagues and share their skills.
• Good interpersonal, work flow management and communications skills.
• Strong time management and prioritization skills as well as ability to under pressure and tight deadlines
• Ability to work independently and manage one’s time
• Duties and tasks are varied and complex; independent judgment needed.
• Willingness to learn is essential as extensive on-the-job training is provided
• Willingness to use also self-learning tools and online documentation for self-learning
• Availability to work in shifts, during weekends and holidays 24 X 7 X 365
  

Would be an advantage any of: - ITIL certificate of relevant experience - OCI/CCNA or networks knowledge