Family Description
Customer Services (CS) covers customer service in different areas such as technical support, account support, operations, maintenance, network design / deployment / integration / transformation, and education. Generates revenue and the increase of customer satisfaction through planning, designing, deploying, integrating, optimising, operating, and maintaining phases.
Subfamily Description
Care (CAR) comprises the support of customers (in line with contractual service agreements) and internal Nokia stakeholders in pre- and post-sales activities with technical and non-technical topics, including first level contact with customers for software and hardware incidents or requests. Ensures readiness of service delivery and covers the provision of recommendations to product houses on design for serviceability aspects. Contains escalation of key issues to appropriate functions.
- Defines processes and standards.
- Uses knowledge of industry and competitive landscape to increase own effectiveness.
- Solves highly complex or novel problems based on sophisticated analytical thought and complex judgment.
- Independently develops concepts to set the professional direction of own organisational unit.
- Acts as a senior subject matter expert, typically at a global or regional level, in many organisational units the most senior internal expert who serves as best practice / quality resource and is an acknowledged authority both within and outside own organisational unit.
- Often leads functional teams with considerable resource requirements, risk, and complexity, handles day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work.
- Interprets internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes and services.
- Provides expertise and delivers advanced system troubleshooting methods like system level tracing, debug, protocol flow analysis.
- Identifies, reproduces and characterises defects and collaborates promptly with R&D teams for fixes.
- Leads and resolves complex situations derived from technical activities such as software upgrade, audit, equipment swap, network expansion, multi-vendor issues, acceptance testing, feature testing, tailored technical support, end-to-end performance improvement, etc.
- Interacts with customer for complex cases, providing workarounds, etc.
- Ensures Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met for escalated cases.
- Leads the Root Causes Analysis (RCA) analysis and report creation.
- Complies with the requirements as per the emergency process role and ensures quick recovery for issues categorised as critical outages and code red.
- Leads and supports technical activities in early product phases (releases, pilots, trials and early projects).
- Promotes, creates and approves knowledge articles (author, reviewer, approver, coach) and proactively shares knowledge.
- Provides customer and internal technical training or consultancy.
- Performs system level product competence training and knowledge transfer across team.
- Reviews technical documentation and specifies features for supportability and maintainability.
- Works in customer and 3rd party interface (communications, partnering).
Impact
Impact is primarily short term and and typically functional, departmental or small single geographic in scope through management of resources. Accountable for departmenta/program goals, achievement and cost performance. Actions and errors will normally impact business, program, project, function. Marked contribution to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards or operational plans based upon business strategy.
Scope & Contribution
Individual Contributor: Independently carrying out consulting, specific functional work within a Business Unit/Geography. Assumes broad perspective. Resolves unique and highly complex problems within own discipline. Makes decisions about own and/or project work using known solutions as basis. Managerial/Supervisory: Typically second (occasionally first) level of solid line management. Effective management of resources and development/implementation of plans and processes. Interprets policies and establishes procedures. Increased awareness and influence of other functions outside of own business area. Decision making often repeated in similar manner - able to choose correct solution or modify existing solution.
Innovation
Highly independent and self directed. Develops plans, measures effectiveness. Assesses customer relationships and service levels. Can develop and implement complex and innovative concepts. Problems require searching and selecting. Anticipates problems, seeks opportunities. Models creative and innovative work methods.
Communication
Communicates with parties within and outside of own job function, which may include external customers or vendors depending upon the job function.Requires ability to influence others outside of own job area on policies, practices and procedures. Has cross-cultural knowledge and global mindset. Works to influence others to accept job function’s view/practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices, and approaches. Requires influencing others outside of own job area on policies, practices and procedures, e.g. by expressing complex information in an engaging and inspiring manner.
Knowledge & Experience
Management Experience / Mastery of a specific professional discipline combining deep knowledge of theory and practice within a function. Expert in more than one area, broad perspective. Typically requires 7-10 years extensive relevant experience and/or a graduate / postgraduate equivalent degree.
