Oracle Hiring for Escalation Manager on Duty – Oracle Hospitality at Columbia, MD Full Time

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, your primary focus will be to deliver post-sales support and solutions to the Oracle Support Services customer base while serving as an advocate for customer needs. You will be responsible for fielding and resolving post-sales non-technical customer inquiries via phone and electronic means and technical questions regarding the use of and troubleshooting for our Electronic Support Services. As a primary point of contact for customers, you will act as a liaison between Oracle employees and the customer with little direction from management. You will also provide guidance and resolution on a wide range of technical and non-technical customer issues. Resolution is primarily provided in real time with follow up for more complex matters. This position may provide you an opportunity to be “proactively responsible” for support for our top revenue and strategic customers.

Duties and tasks are standard with some variation. Completes own role largely independently within defined policies and procedures. Prior working knowledge of or the desire to quickly learn about Oracle Financials, Oracle Service, ITS, Imaging, GSR, the World Wide Web, internal knowledgebase, MSOffice tools and our Electronic Support Service Offerings. In addition, understand the use of operating systems, hardware environments, software, networking, Oracle products and how they all interrelate in a customer environment. You should also be fluent in customer TAR reporting systems. Bachelors degree and three years related experience (and one year Client Relations experience) in hand, an ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, will have shown prior abilities to be an effective team player, and will demonstrate commitment to ensuring customer success.

Come and join us! 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 deliver superior service and experience to their guests anywhere.

The Oracle Global Support Escalations & Incidents Team is the main point of contact for critical issues and incidents for Global Customer Support. This team provides 24×7 coverage for global customers.

As an Escalation and Incident MOD you will have a primary role in the process globally and deliver best-in-class service to our customers. You will act as a bridge between our customers and internal teams/collaborators, 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 other folks to achieve resolution of the reported problems.

The ideal is comfortable handling 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 blocking issue calls
• management of incidents for on-premise and hosted customers
• increase visibility and awareness of Incidents across the various lines of business
• effectively connect with all collaborators; both internal and external participants, throughout the duration of the incident or critical issue
• engage and collaborate with technical teams to drive resolution of incidents and blocking issues
• deliver a consistent and professional Incident & escalation Management process Globally
• proactively review to prevent recurrence of issues
• deliver daily reporting to management and internal collaborators
• 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 sharing knowledge

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
• Superb 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 well-mannered way
• Excellent analytical solving skills and ability to own problems through to resolution
• Teamwork – great teammates, 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 sophisticated; 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

What we offer

In addition to a benefits package that includes life and disability insurance, health and dental options, GRRSP with match and an employee stock purchase plan:

• Agile, friendly, collaborative environment backed by a strong enterprise.
• Continuous career development: we actively encourage and celebrate internal promotions.
• High-impact learning culture: free access to online learning platforms and regular in-house training sessions and tech talks.
• A vast variety of volunteer opportunities through Oracle Giving
• Diverse ERGs that provide opportunities for networking and exchange of ideas across the company.

Does this sound like you? If so, we hope to meet you!