Total 3 Manager customer service job vacancies in The Philippines

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.

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.