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Job Summary: As a Customer Support Specialist, reporting to Support Management, you are working within the boundaries of 1st tier support, while in close collaboration with Technical Product Specialists, Customer Experience and our fantastic R&D team.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Reply to customer inquiries via supported communication channels
• Identify, replicate, and report validated product issues to the R&D team
• Identify and log feature requests
• Follow-up on customer inquiries upon issue resolution/feedback from R&D
• Provide outstanding service to our customers via prompt and value-adding interactions over phone, email and chat
• Take ownership of support tickets and be responsible for funneling them through all process stages until a resolution has been reached
• Maintain an overview of submitted cases to R&D, and flag internal SLA breaches
• Escalate support cases based on severity levels and associated business risk assessments
• Be an expert on the Brandwatch product suite and its features as they are launched and engage in feature tests
• Update internal knowledge base with new relevant insights to enhance knowledge sharing across all support team members
• Participate and contribute to roundtables, calibration and training sessions within support and cross-functional departments Minimum Required
Qualifications:
• Excellent English language skills, written and verbal.
• Highly customer focused; shows a real passion for the customer experience and customer support industry.
• Driven, self-starter, enthusiastic and with an “ownership” mentality.
• Adaptable and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment.
• Able to prioritize workload in line with customer demand.
• Proven experience in a customer-interacting role.
• Ability to collaborate with internal and external partners whilst coordinating key customer deliverables, ensuring world class customer experience.
• Advanced listening and verbal communication skills to understand customer's needs, and ability to respond clearly and concisely both verbally and written.
• Enthusiast; strong work ethic with a positive mindset, and can-do attitude.
• Influencing and negotiation skills.
• Team player that appreciates working together for a common goal.
• Working knowledge of MS Office Suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint is required.
As a global leader in PR, marketing and social media management technology and intelligence, Cision helps brands and organizations to identify, connect and engage with customers and stakeholders to drive business results. PR Newswire, a network of over 1.1 billion influencers, in-depth monitoring, analytics and its Brandwatch and Falcon.io social media platforms headline a premier suite of solutions. Cision has offices in 24 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and APAC. For more information about Cision's award-winning solutions, including its next-gen Cision Communications Cloud®, visit www.cision.com and follow @Cision on Twitter.
Cision is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and perform at their best. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion is vital to driving our culture, sparking innovation and achieving long-term success. Cision is proud to have joined more than 600 companies in signing the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™ pledge and named a “Top Diversity Employer” for 2021 by DiversityJobs.com.
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