Client Support Manager I

About Lumen

Lumen connects the world. We are igniting business growth by connecting people, data and applications – quickly, securely, and effortlessly. Together, we are building a culture and company from the people up – committed to teamwork, trust and transparency. People power progress.

 

We’re looking for top-tier talent and offer the flexibility you need to thrive and deliver lasting impact. Join us as we digitally connect the world and shape the future.

The Role

This role serves as customer advocate enriching customer experience through customer lifecycle.  Support structure is primarily response-oriented to customers’ needs and highly active.  Focusing on the mid to lower tier customer segment with higher churn tendencies, efforts include growing revenue through renewals and mitigating churn through responding to customer needs.  While majority of daily activities is reactionary, there are “Select” accounts (i.e. Top Biller) identified (1 to 3 per module) requiring some proactive support.

The Main Responsibilities

Essential Duties:

• Prioritize and effectively manage customer requests and inquiries throughout lifecycle resulting in revenue retention and customer churn reduction 
• Perform internal bill reviews on all revenue impacting orders validating services match order and contract; initiate a billing disputes as necessary and support downstream credits accordingly
• Monitor and assist in managing Early Term Liabilities (ETL’s) waivers, ensuring ETL customer charges are valid and accurate
• Negotiate credits directly with customers while representing company’s best interests and working within financial guidelines; provide necessary approval for business decision credits
• Provide assigned customers service inventories and spend as requested
• Communicate with account team and customer regarding renewal opportunities and re-rates, clarify and appropriately message customer options while minimizing revenue writedowns
• Validate customer contacts and encourage customer to complete relationship surveys
• Assess customer risk (i.e. leverage internal churn score) while offering appropriate customer treatment minimizing churn tendencies

For “Select” customers only:

• Support customer onboarding through promoting and influencing customer to self-serve through customer handbook and portal, educate customer on account team and internal contacts
• Single point of contact for life-cycle events:  When customer has questions regarding their account, general day to day questions, their CSM should be who they call
• Conduct inventory service audits for customers
• Facilitates Customer Business/Service Reviews by working with the account team to provide an overall review of the account based on the customer’s needs; work to resolve any concerns that come from the review
• Advocate on-net migrations by initiating customer conversation and promoting benefits of on-net services 
• Review Service Assurance process and provide escalation lists; available for any escalation needs throughout our relationship to enable continuity of your overall services
   

What We Look For in a Candidate

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities (General Business Skills):

• General knowledge of marketing principles and processes.
• Good Phone Skills
• Conflict Management/Dispute Resolution
• Conversation skills/Interpersonal Skills
• Oral and Written Communication Skills
• Active Listening
• PC Skills

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Telecommunications preferred.
• Demonstrated success in telecommunications sales to end-user customers, including strategic and large business customer using relationship management and system sales concepts.

 

Compensation

This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors.

Location Based Pay Ranges:

$52,920 - $70,560 in these states: AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NM, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, WI, WV, and WY.
$55,566 - $74,088 in these states: CO, HI, MI, MN, NC, NH, NV, OR, and RI.
$58,212 - $77,616 in these states: AK, CA, CT, DC, DE, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, TX, VA, and WA.

Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. We're able to answer any additional questions you may have about ou