Senior Customer Service Lead
Job Summary
As a Senior Customer Service Team Leader, you will inspire and guide a team of specialists to provide world-class support for Apple Store Online and Retail customers. You will resolve complex escalations, foster a high-performance culture, and drive process improvements. Your focus will be on delivering exceptional customer experiences while managing team performance and development.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of CS specialists
- Manage complex customer escalations and resolutions
- Monitor performance metrics and SLAs
- Drive process improvements based on customer insights
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders
Required Skills
- 3+ years leadership experience
- Fluent in English and Korean
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Project management
- Process re-engineering
- Performance coaching
Job Details
Responsibilities:
- Lead, coach, mentor and develop a team of Senior Customer Service Specialists, fostering a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Champion team well-being, promote a positive and supportive work environment.
- Conduct regular 1:1 meeting, daily team huddle, weekly team meeting, bi-annual performance review conversations, and provide constructive feedback to enhance individual and team performance.
- Act as the primary point of contact and subject matter expert for projects and high-priority and complex customer escalations.
- Oversee the team’s handling of complex cases, providing direct support, guidance, and approval for exceptional solutions or policy deviations when necessary.
- Ensure all customer interactions are handled with empathy, professionalism, and a focus on delivering outstanding service.
- Monitor and analyze team performance against key metrics, including adherence to service level agreements (SLAs), resolution time, and customer satisfaction.
- Actively listen to and analyze insights gathered from complex escalations and specialist consultations to identify recurring issues, systemic problems, and areas for process improvement.
- Contribute to knowledge base and internal documentation, ensuring specialists have access to up-to-date information and resources.
- Maintain effective communication channels with internal stakeholders regarding critical customer issues, trends, and resolutions.
- Represent the customer’s voice in internal discussions, advocating for improvements that enhance the overall customer experience.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum 3 years of leadership experience managing a customer service team, with a strong emphasis on coaching, mentoring, and performance development.
- Demonstrated ability to foster a positive, supportive, and high-performing team environment, prioritizing team well-being and engagement.
- Strong inclusive leadership skills, including the ability to create a respectful, equitable and safe environment where all voices are valued.
- Proven track record in identifying and translating insights from customer interactions into impactful process improvements.
- Superior analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Experience in process re-engineering and project management.
- Demonstrated ability to make sound, consistent decisions that balances customer experiences while protecting organization’s interests and policies.
- Capacity to navigate ambiguity and provide clear direction.
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skill.
- Fluent in English and Korean to support the language specific market and work with local teams.
- May require working non-standard business hours such as evenings and weekends.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in e-commerce is highly desirable.