Total 7 lab manager job vacancies in Customer Service category in Pasay, National Capital Region

Octal Philippines Inc., a leading player in the Information Technology and Services industry, is seeking a dedicated and passionate PM - Customer Support Manager to join our dynamic team. This role is pivotal in ensuring that our clients receive exceptional support and service throughout their journey with us. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in customer service management, with experience in managing support operations from a project management perspective. You will be responsible for leading a talented team of customer support representatives, ensuring their performance aligns with our strategic goals and high customer satisfaction standards. Your leadership will involve developing and implementing support strategies, tracking performance metrics, and working closely with other departments to enhance our service offerings. As a PM - Customer Support Manager, you will also play a critical role in training and onboarding new team members. We're looking for someone who is not only a strong leader but also has a deep understanding of customer needs in the technology sector. This position offers a unique opportunity to affect change and innovation in our customer support processes, with a focus on continuous improvement and client satisfaction. If you are driven by results and have a passion for providing top-notch service, we encourage you to apply and become a part of Octal Philippines Inc.'s mission to deliver excellence in IT services.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the customer support team to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction and service excellence.
• Design and implement customer support processes and best practices to improve efficiency and service quality.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) to track team performance and customer satisfaction levels.
• Develop training programs for new hires and ongoing training for existing team members to enhance their skills.
• Collaborate with product and development teams to resolve customer issues effectively and improve product offerings.
• Act as the primary point of contact for escalated customer concerns and provide timely resolution solutions.
• Create a customer feedback loop to gather insights and drive continuous improvement in service delivery.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience in customer service or support management.
• Proven experience as a Customer Support Manager or similar role in the IT industry.
• Strong understanding of customer service metrics and best practices.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to analyze data and draw actionable insights to improve performance.
• Experience with ticketing systems and customer relationship management (CRM) software.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to manage difficult situations professionally.

The Manager role of Global Client Resolution team is responsible for providing leadership, oversight, and direction to   staff, ensuring that team members have the information, tools, and resources needed to deliver exceptional results to internal and external customers. The role requires a keen insight into support trends which includes emails, chat and calls with all its best practices, and reach for deep collaboration and partnership with business leadership across Client Services, Sales, Product, and other organizations within Visa. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Oversee team consisting of analyst and associates that will primarily work on chats and calls and emails providing ongoing guidance and direction to support the dynamic and evolving nature of Visa’s products and services. 
• Provide regular coaching and feedback to team members in order to optimize performance and engagement.  Act as mentor and coach to support and strengthen their development and provide guidance to help support short and long-term employee career goals.
• Collaborate with global peers to identify and document hand-offs and support needs associated with Global Client Resolution processes.   
• Meet regularly with regional peers and other key stakeholders to obtain visibility into support trends, initiatives, operational issues, or other activities that may affect the business unit.  Assess and plan for future staffing needs to ensure that adequate resources are in place to meet demand. 
• Foster deep partnerships with CS, Sales, and Product peers.  Loop into the Annual Operational Planning process for prioritization of funding and resources, proving detailed business rationale and ROI to ensure that staff additions and tool enhancements receive proper prioritization and funding. 
• Drive team to optimize workflows, communication, and hand-offs associated with the various products and programs that this team supports.  Ensure that team documentation is created and updated.  
• Champion efforts to improve support tools, providing the business rationale needed to secure funding and prioritization of new and enhanced tools and functionality.
• Ensure that internal and Client-facing documentation is maintained and updated as systems or applications change, or as new initiatives or support needs are introduced.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

We are seeking a dynamic, transformational Service Owner to join the Service Desk. The Service Owner has a pivotal role within the End User Support organization, responsible for the strategic direction, performance, and continuous improvement of services provided by the Service Desk Team. This role is essential in ensuring the services align with business objectives, deliver significant value to stakeholders, and complies with all relevant standards.

Key Focus Areas

The ideal candidate should be passionate about: 

• Transformational Leadership - Drive transformational change within the service by identifying and implementing innovative solutions that address evolving business needs.
• Service Efficiency - Oversee the efficient operation of the service, ensuring optimal performance and swift resolution of any issues.
• Continuous Improvement - Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance service quality, informed by performance data and stakeholder feedback.
• Automation/Self Services – Be passionate about automating and simplifying process and drive a culture of self-services
• Strategic Alignment - Ensure that the service's strategic direction is closely aligned with the organization's goals and objectives.
• Stakeholder Engagement - Maintain strong relationships with all stakeholders, ensuring their needs are met and expectations managed.
• Risk Management - Proactively identify and mitigate risks to ensure uninterrupted service delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

The Service Owner will drive transformational change within the services provided, ensuring it evolves to meet future business needs and technological advancements.

• Service Transition - Manage the transition of new or changed services into the operational environment, ensuring minimal disruption to existing services and operations. Identify and manage risks associated with the service, ensuring that any potential issues are mitigated before they can impact the service. Track volume/issues of services transition
• Service Operation - Oversee the day-to-day operation of services, ensuring they meet agreed-upon service levels and performance targets. Ensure that the service is delivered effectively and efficiently. Responsible for any issues that arise and must ensure that they are resolved in a timely manner. Responsible to run Operational Reviews.
• Capacity and Demand Management - Define and manage capacity and demand for the services in a way that anticipates future growth and transformational needs. Ensure the service can scale efficiently to meet changing organizational demands.
• Service Improvement - Continuously monitor service channels and review performance metrics to identify transformational opportunities for improvement. Leverage data analytics and data insights to drive OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) that enhance service quality and effectiveness.
• Stakeholder Management - Engage with and manage relationships with End User Support, Business Partners, and Business stakeholders involved in the service, ensuring communication and collaboration. Ensure stakeholder needs are anticipated, met, and expectations are managed throughout the service lifecycle.
• Risk Management - Identify, assess, and manage risks associated with the service, with a focus on transformational risk mitigation strategies. Ensure that potential issues are proactively addressed before they impact service delivery.
• Compliance - Ensure the services comply with all Corporate Key Controls, and organizational policies, ensuring the service remains fully compliant.
• Collaboration - Collaborate with peer stakeholders across other End User Systems operations engineering functions to drive improvements.
• ITSM Expertise - Lead transformational initiatives to improve ITSM practices within the organization and provide guidance on best practices.
• Budgeting and Cost Management - Ongoing transformational approach, seeking cost-saving opportunities while maintaining or enhancing service quality. Monitor financial performance to ensure alignment with organizational goals and recommend adjustments as needed.

To ensure the creation of an unforgettable and rewarding experience (including services) across all channels and all customer journeys, so that customers will want to come again and again. To secure that the customer is at the centre of all key decision-making processes and that an excellent customer satisfaction is delivered and value for the customers is created.

Act as a member of the Country Management Team and proactively contribute to IKEA business plan, commercial plan and commercial calendar process. Lead the facilitation of a seamless shopping experience across channels to enable for extraordinary growth.

• Secure that the customer is at the centre of all strategies, decisions making, solutions, meeting the customer experience steps.
• Provide the front-line business operations with expertise, so that the customer is taken care of with quality and speed, across all journeys where needed.
• Responsible for country localisation in SOP which need to be aligned with IKEA Retail to secure consistency and compliance.
• Support the store audits (internal & external) Support and align any store / country operational issues including systems. Act as country super user to support store and end users.
• Follow up and identify continuous improvements to the customer experience journey, to deliver an excellent customer satisfaction, and maximize conversion in all touchpoints.
• Actively monitor customer satisfaction & sentiment in the country, markets, customer care center and CMPs; identify together with the respective leaders’ action plans to tackle root causes for dissatisfaction.
• Create collaboration across the country between customer care centers, stores and service partners on achieving operational excellence from a customer perspective (deliver IKEA's customer promises).
• Work across the organisation in customer journey improvement and development in close cooperation with IKEA Retail functions, leveraging on central solutions and initiatives.
• Pro-actively liaise with key stakeholders to secure the right prioritisation, localisation for IKEA Retail to support delivery of tools/systems. Work with IKEA retail stakeholders to align new process and system design before development takes place.
• Work closely with Expansion, cross functions for planning, IR2, work orders, operations flow and all that is needed for new stores and SISAN.

About the job

• Turn the end-to-end shopping journey at IKEA frictionless, easy, seamless, and convenient.
• Advocate a culture of continuous improvement based on customer feedback in the area of convenience & support.
• Provide an accessible and convenient customer support (by CCC or coworkers in any IKEA Customer Meeting Point and/or self-support for the customer) by maximizing and/or developing new capabilities and system functionality.
• Expand and adopt new market relevant ways to communicate with customers for support purposes (e.g. Line chat, Social media).

Your assignment

• Co-create and agree with the markets, Functional Network Leaders, Retail Solutions Team and Digital Services the development roadmap required to create that frictionless, seamless experience.
• Be the contact point with Inter IKEA’s Development Team on the continuous enhancement and rolling out of new/enhanced initiatives such as PulseCX, Smaland 2.0, unassisted Play solutions, etc.
• Digitalization coworker processes and tools for time gain and higher efficiency (e.g. checkout process in-store, service order booking, food orders, customer refunds, etc.
• Enable customer self-support, chatbots for support in all CMPs to complement coworker service. This is the new “you do your part, we do ours, together we save money”. What can the customer do themselves to release dependency on coworker and increase efficiency.
• Reduce time at checkout both in-store as online/app for quicker conversion and decrease cart abandonment (loose hands in-store). Included here to assess which payment methods to offer at which checkout points to increase productivity and reduce waiting lines (e.g. Bistro vs Sales Desk at HFB4).
• Establish with Functional Network Leaders and Data team a reviewed set of KPIs that lead to more omnichannel behaviour/mindset by store coworkers. Ensure development and rollout of an automated dashboard across the different units and secure adoption through change management process.

The IT Service Management (ITSM) group within the Employee Enablement Solutions team (EES) at Visa is seeking a Service Manager with excellent communication skills, a strong sense of ownership, and the ability to work autonomously. This role involves driving excellence across all employee-facing technology services, simplifying and optimizing IT services, and promoting a service culture focused on the employee experience. Key responsibilities include:

• Continual improvement of services and processes

• Building strategic partnerships throughout the organization

• Managing services throughout their lifecycle

• Influencing decisions as a customer advocate

• Facilitating transparent communication and collaboration

• Providing clear, weekly reporting focused on results and milestones

The ideal candidate should have a strong IT background, understand the evolving needs of the business, and have a passion for process improvement. They should balance empathy with the ability to explain limitations, understand the cost implications of services, and be able to back decisions with data. Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and a commitment to delivering quality services are essential.

The candidate must be comfortable providing ITSM services autonomously and building strong relationships with staff and leaders globally. They should use analysis and relationships to improve the user experience in their region and beyond. The candidate will be expected to provide clear reporting and KPIs on a monthly basis, and track milestones in our systems for visibility.

The successful candidate will demonstrate emotional intelligence, executive presence, and the courage to highlight inconsistencies. They should be self-motivated, committed to enhancing ITSM processes, and eager to improve Visa through discussion, influence, leadership, and action. They will be expected to create plans with milestones and dates for optimal value achievement and provide professional proposals for ITSM service improvement on a quarterly basis.

Essential Functions include:

• Prioritizing and addressing local Service Improvement Opportunities quarterly, meeting or exceeding targets
• Analyzing ServiceNow data to identify service gaps and drive improvements
• Meeting with World Area staff/leaders to present analysis of services, capturing feedback and aligning with business needs
• Driving service transition and integration activities beyond minimum requirements, striving for world-class delivery
• Developing actionable plans with key deliverables/milestones, eliminating ambiguity
• Communicating with high energy, excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills are essential
• Creating clear and actionable service-related communications for distribution to targeted audiences
• Building partnerships and encouraging collaboration to maximize continual improvement opportunities
• Transforming complex technical concepts into precise, audience-appropriate language
• Leading in ambiguous high-pressure situations and working independently with limited direction
• Prioritizing and managing a wide range of competing initiatives
• Taking ownership of urgent customer items and building strong relationships with internal customers
• Optimizing service delivery by aligning technology owners with best practices and methodologies
• Challenging assumptions and the status quo, exhibiting strong organizational courage
• Developing persuasive business plans and proposals that maximize return on investment
• Exhibiting strong problem-solving skills and critical thinking techniques
• Understanding organizational change management and user experience improvement techniques
• Engaging professionally with people at all levels, using strong interpersonal skills
• Managing time and priority with attention to detail across a wide array of competing initiatives
• Integrating into a team of technical, process improvement, and change management professionals
• Providing quarterly written proposals to leadership on biggest ITSM opportunity areas to serve the Asia Pacific region

The successful candidate will possess the following qualities:

• Strong ideation and problem-solving skills
• Results-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset
• Coachable and positive attitude
• Strong and concise communicator, effective listener, and empathetic
• Self-sufficient in admin tasks and effective at prioritizing

Additional responsibilities include tracking goals on a weekly basis, presenting monthly reports and strategy updates, showcasing milestone progress, and meeting or exceeding goal targets with weekly reporting. The successful candidate will demonstrate a high degree of autonomy and ownership and possess excellent communication skills.

The standard working hours for this role currently are from 5:00 pm to 2:00 am, local Manila time. When the work necessitates it, you may be required to work outside of the prescribed work hours.  Visa reserves the right to adjust the  standard working hours in future based on the business requirements

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

As a member of the End Users Systems support team, the IT Service Desk Senior Manager will be responsible for managing a team of Service Desk Analysts for day-to-day operations, people management and escalation management. Additionally, this role will require a transformational mindset to identify areas of opportunities to automate and/or simplify processes. The ideal candidate will possess a blend of operational and automation skills, dedicated to driving high-quality customer service and elevating our Service Desk operations.

This role is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about:

• Empowering self-service solutions-Enhancing user independence through intuitive self-service options.
• Proactive and predictive support-Anticipating user needs and preventing issues before they arise.
• Omni-channel experience-Providing seamless support across multiple communication channels.
• AI and automation integration-Leveraging technology to streamline processes and improve efficiency.
• Cultivating a stellar support team- Building and developing a team of top-notch support professionals.
• Mastering shift-left with repeated issue analysis-identifying patterns and addressing root causes to reduce recurring issues.
• Integrating Self-Healing and ITSM Flow- Implementing solutions that automatically resolve issues and optimize service management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Mentor, manage, and motivate a high-performing team, setting clear priorities to achieve goals and OKRs.
• Monitor and evaluate team performance, providing feedback and coaching for improvement.
• Analyzes regular performance reports and take actions to ensure desired behaviors from team members
• Ensure service level targets are met and address all service-level complaints.
• Build strong relationships with leaders and stakeholders to command their attention.
• Develops training and performance improvement plans for team members
• Proposes innovation and improvements to current processes/procedures/tools to the Training, Process & Tools Lead
• Identify gaps and areas of poor performance and provide recommendations for automation and simplification
• Apply creative thinking to drive automation goals and align with technology strategy
• Be an exemplary leader, embodying the organization's culture, vision, mission, and goals.
• Support the adoption of new technologies and tools.
• Provide subject matter expertise and manage external and internal collaboration projects
• Position may be required to work various time zones, in support of 24x7x365 support requirements.