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Customer Engagement Manager

Ciena
NewPosted today

LOCATION

United States · Remote

EXPERIENCE

8+ Years

TYPE

FullTime

SALARY

$82.3K - $131.5K /year

SKILLS REQUIRED

Project ManagementStakeholder ManagementIncident ManagementService Level Management

Job description

Overview

Drive managed service onboarding and customer engagement across complex technology programs, ensuring successful service delivery and customer satisfaction.

What you'll do

  • Drive managed service onboarding projects from quote acceptance through service activation and ongoing performance reporting.
  • Deliver project scope while optimizing schedules, costs, resources, and third-party deliverables.
  • Lead customer engagement activities and serve as the escalation point for managed service delivery matters.
  • Manage multiple customer projects and coordinate stakeholder communications.
  • Present executive-level project updates, tracking reports, and status communications.
  • Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Collaborate with Services, Product, Supply Chain, Sales, partner, and customer teams to achieve project objectives.
  • Monitor incident management activities and coordinate resolution in alignment with service level agreements.
  • Manage customer communications, escalated incidents, action items, and service delivery activities to support customer satisfaction.
  • Coordinate technical support and field engineering activities to address operational issues and critical equipment maintenance requirements.

What you'll need

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, business, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of relevant experience in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) field with program or project management responsibilities supporting managed services, optical, cloud, or virtualization delivery projects.
  • Application of negotiation, influence, collaboration, customer-facing communication, and statement of work management practices.
  • Monitor incident management activities and coordinate resolution in alignment with service level agreements.
  • Manage customer communications, escalated incidents, action items, and service delivery activities to support customer satisfaction.
  • Coordinate technical support and field engineering activities to address operational issues and critical equipment maintenance requirements.
  • Demonstrated skills utilizing desktop applications, project management tools, financial tools.
  • Ability to travel in support of customer projects.

Nice to have

  • Experience with managed services and build-operate-transfer projects.
  • PMP certification and virtualization or networking technology certifications.
  • MS or MBA.
  • Experience with multivendor and software professional services supporting communication service provider or enterprise customers.
  • ITIL v4/6 Foundation ITSM Certification.
  • Service Provider experience.

Details

  • Location: Remote, US.
  • Pay range: $82,300 - $131,500 USD annually for the primary location.

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Customer Engagement Manager