All Locations
Kochi
Advertising Salary
Competitive + benefits
Vacancy type
Permanent

About the role

The Customer Support Manager will lead and deliver the provision of support services outside of core operating hours to ensure a consistent and superior 24/7 customer experience. The role holder will be the key senior point of contact managing service delivery outside of core hours and will be required to engage and directly support customers and colleagues in a professional manner. They will be responsible for managing a team of remote agents, operating across multiple channels, to deliver to pre-defined KPIs and service levels and to ensure there is a successful handover between operating shifts to ensure we always protect the customer experience.
 
In this role your key responsibilities will be:
● Overall delivery leadership for all non-core hours support provision
● Lead the teams and out of hours activities to deliver an exceptional experience for customers and colleagues through on time delivery, achievement of SLAs and KPIs and by going the extra mile to make sure each customer has a great ‘premier’ experience from Zellis
● Ability to lead any major incidents occurring during the overnight shifts – including chairing of any bridge calls, securing on-call resources and following the major incident processes
● Diagnose and triage issues and problems for our customers across a variety of live and written contact channels.
● Drive and manage the delivery of a range of differentiated service levels during the out of hours shifts to ensure key KPIs and SLAs are met while working as a combined leadership team ensuring the end-to-end successful adherence to SLAs and KPIs are achieved.
● Work with the Head of Customer Support Operations to ensure sufficient resourcing and shift rostering, identify problems, design solutions and deliver change to continually improve the Customer Support function.
● Drive high levels of productivity by ensuring that the team process core hours work, cases and continuous improvement initiatives when there is insufficient out-of-hours work volumes occurring to make the team fully utilised.
● Drive resolution of cases in queues and ensure that there is a seamless and successful transition of cases that extend into the next planned shift including appropriate customer communications so that they understand their case will continue to be supported where appropriate.
● Ensure robust processes for effective handovers between shifts including to and from the core hours teams.
● Coach individual team members, using a variety of data sources to optimise their performance.
● Take a proactive approach to motivate the team on a day-to-day basis, e.g. recognising positive milestones throughout the overnight shift, leading stand-ups, huddles and engaging team members to maintain morale
● Support team members to handle customer queries and escalations with the aim of resolving the core issue at first point of contact and provide personalised responses in a way that balances the need of the customer, our people and Zellis.
● Achieve established personal targets to achieve required productivity and quality standards to provide excellent customer service.
● Role model our values and expectations for Technical Support Specialists
● Complete quality assurance feedback for customer interactions and provide structured feedback to team members.
● Periodically engage with the transformation manager in Kochi to attract and recruit new team members that match the work demands and customer expectations for out of hours service delivery.
● Ensure all people-related tasks are completed in line with Zellis procedures and policies

Skills & experience

A track record of delivering and over-achieving against SLAs and targets
● A clear, evidenced drive towards building excellence within an omni-channel contact centre environment.
● Able to be self-sufficient and confident in knowledge when dealing with incidents and potentially complex situations.
● Ability to independently lead any major incidents occurring during the overnight shifts – including chairing any bridge calls, securing on-call resources and following the major incident processes
● Resourcefulness and resilience
● Decision-making capability in a high-pressure environment
● Technical Customer Support environment experience – comfortable dealing with IT-related issues and problems
● Experience using one or more real-time case management/ticket management solutions to manage service delivery.
● Flexibility to work in rotational shifts across a 24-hour window (6:30 am to 6.30 am next day) throughout the week, including weekends
● Great communication skills - you will enjoy speaking to people and have experience directly working with customers and colleagues.
● Excellent problem-solving and diagnostic skills: ability to visualise a problem or situation and think abstractly to solve it, often in unfamiliar territory.
● Previous experience of leading shifts essential
● Demonstrate examples of our company values
● Willingness to take on additional tasks as required within the needs of the business.
● Ability to acquire a broad knowledge of Zellis products and processes. Making People feel appreciated for the work they do.
● Team leadership experience in a customer-facing environment
● Previous experience of leading shifts essential
● An experienced team coach, able to motivate and drive team performance, getting the most from the team operating in a remote environment. Responds well to and able to deliver constructive feedback and is able to assess the component parts of great customer handling skills.
● Track record of making positive improvements within your department
● Ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders – essential to be able to collaborate with other team managers.

Benefits & culture

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

Unstoppable together.
Always learning.
Make it count.
Think scale.
Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

A competitive salary.
Excellent career progression opportunities.
Transportation to the office (up to 30kms).
Casual, privilege and sick leave, plus your birthday off.
Group medical insurance.
Personal accident insurance.
Life assurance.
A range of additional flexible benefits to support personal wellbeing.

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