Support Planner - Bengaluru/Bangalore @ Microsoft

Ideal candidate for this role will be a leader with a passion for partners support experience, is excited about driving support delivery operational excellence and enable support personnel to provide a superb experience with each and every interaction with the partners. This person must be a proven leader across all disciplines, including internal and external stakeholders, across business, support and technical teams, with a focus on day-to-day support operations.

Your job is all about identifying and managing the keys to successful advocates readiness with each launch of new offerings, experiences, or features, as well as ensuring tools, processes, BI, Rhythm of Business are in place to facilitate call center operations, management, governance and communication. Traditional program/project management skills such as dependency identification, roadmap planning, and delivery assessment are must haves. Very strong collaboration and communication skills are required for the successful candidate as the breadth and depth of this effort spans multiple teams both internally and externally to Microsoft. Strong PM skills with a demonstrated ability for diving into the details while being able to communicate across all spectrums of technical and business stakeholders are key to your success.

Responsibilities
Core Priorities:
Design the Experience: Leverage strategic partnerships (internal/external) to build assisted support experiences utilizing our offerings portfolio and aligned to program strategy. This work includes assessment of program feasibility (timeline, resources and cost, ROI), build out of partner facing support experiences and the hand off to Service Delivery and IT/Engineering for agent tools that are innovative and leverage cost effective industry best practices.

Deploy the Experience: Engage with key stakeholders to gain agreement on the intended experience and secure resources/budget to execute the plan. Facilitate strong partnerships across our planning teams, release management, training/content, and service delivery to take to market the designed experience executing the support strategy. This includes sign-off on identification/mitigation of top issues, volume forecasts, agent readiness plans, tools & infrastructure and communications through the wider virtual team.
Govern the Experience: Through rigorous experience reviews, inspect the outcomes/ROI for each assisted support experience. Represent these results to key stakeholders by life-cycle, product or line of business as appropriate with keys stakeholders. Adjust business plans and execution as needed.

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