As the Service Desk Team Lead, reporting to the Operations Manager, your primary responsibility is to act as the facilitator of the team by ensuring excellent customer service, and develop team effectiveness through leading, coaching, motivation and mentoring. The Team Lead is responsible for the day-to day running of their respective team. Other responsibilities include problem solving, quality coaching or other corrective actions within the team and prepare bi-monthly reports and conduct employee feedback sessions. The Team Lead is accountable for team metrics on a weekly/monthly basis.
Please be aware we can only hire people already based in Portugal with fully legal and valid documentation to work in Portugal (fiscal number, social insurance number and title of residence or manifestation of interest if you're not a citizen). If you do not meet these requirements please do not apply.
Please apply with your resume in English.
JOB CONDITIONS
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Responsible to support staff through providing supervision, leading and mentoring, conflict management, coaching, training, and performance development.
Provide assistance to analysts for any call escalations and during peak periods and outages.
Create, modify, updates and adjust staff weekly schedules and attendance records.
Provide Real Time monitoring of the ACD system to ensure that adequate staffing is available at all times.
Support and oversees any outage and/or critical situations.
Review staff weekly timesheets
Manage the daily survey process and provides feedback to analysts.
Ensure that all new or modified processes and policies are reviewed and implemented by staff.
Responsible for quality monitoring and periodic monitoring of the help desk bins globally and per analyst to ensure that tickets are being handled within the SLAs
Provide analysts with bi-monthly personal metrics report through one-one meetings.
Attend client meetings as needed/requested by management.
Adhere and ensure team adherence to corporate performance and industry standards.
Back up the Operations Manager if required.
REQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE / EDUCATION
Required Skills:
Excellent written and oral English communication skills
Multi-tasking experience in a fast-paced environment
Ability to analyze problem situations and present appropriate solutions.
Excellent organization, planning and time management skills.
Ability to lead, coach, develop and train staff effectively.
Must be dedicated, reliable and dynamic.
Self-starter, proactive, and display initiative
Must work well independently, as well as within a team environment.
Ability to work comfortable in a fast-paced and a metrics organization, built around team concepts and structures and the ability to deal with constantly changing internal and external environments.
JOB MANAGEMENT (time management, problem solving, planning)
The Team Lead should utilize his time to be most efficient and improve productivity. The schedule will be defined by the manager of the team to ensure escalation points availability at almost every time. The work week is the standard 40 hours a week with overtime as required.
The Team Lead manages team conflicts so that problems are resolved constructively. He/she should be able to work under little or no supervision based on the guidelines set by his/her Operations Manager.
The Team Lead handles schedule adherence and operations. He/she is responsible for monitoring the team's performance and ensuring that the team stays on schedule and meets their performance metrics. He/she monitors individual team members to identify and schedule required training.