Job Description

Job title:
Service Network & Technical Operations Manager

Your role:
u2022 Consumer Care & Service Network Management: Manage and strengthen the consumer care and authorized service network to ensure high-quality and timely service support.

New Product Introduction (NPI) Training: Plan and conduct technical training for service centre teams on new product launches, product features, repair procedures, and troubleshooting.
Spare Parts Management: Ensure availability and proper management of spare parts across service centres, including forecasting, inventory monitoring, and resolution of critical shortages.
Safety Case Management: Identify, monitor, investigate, and coordinate closure of product/service-related safety cases in accordance with company safety standards and escalation procedures.
Technical Product Knowledge: Develop and maintain strong technical knowledge of products, including functionality, installation, troubleshooting, repair, and common failure modes.
Service Centre Claim Management: Manage service centre claims related to warranty repairs, spare parts, labour, and other service activities. Ensure claims are accurately validated, processed, and resolved within defined timelines.
Service Quality Improvement: Monitor service performance and identify recurring technical issues, driving corrective and preventive actions with relevant teams.
Cross-functional Coordination: Coordinate with Product Development, Quality, Supply Chain, Sales, and Customer Care teams to resolve technical and service-related issues.
Performance Monitoring: Track key service network KPIs such as turnaround time, first-time fix rate, repeat complaints, claim closure, spare-parts availability, and customer satisfaction.
Service Network Capability Development: Assess service centre capability and implement improvement plans through technical training, process standardization, and regular performance reviews.

You're the right fit if:

Strong experience in service network management, technical operations, partner/vendor governance, and consumer service excellence.
Proven capability in NPI readiness, technical training, RCA, process improvement, NPS, TAT and service quality management.
Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, analytical and problem-solving skills, with a strong focus on operational efficiency and cost optimization.
Strategic thinking, decision-making, problem solving, influencing, communication, and team leadership
Preferably 10u201315+ years in service operations, technical service, after-sales/service network or consumer care, preferably with experience managing a sizeable service ecosystem
Ideally a bachelor's degree in engineering (Electrical/Electronics/Mechanical preferred). MBA/PGDM in Operations, Service Management or Business Administration would be an added advantage

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the companyu2019s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the companyu2019s main facilities, generally at the customersu2019 or suppliersu2019 locations.

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