Senior Associate, Incident Management - Global Customer Care

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How You Will Contribute:

This role is part of a 24x7 function that will serve as the primary focal point during highly escalated technical support incidents impacting Ciena’s customers, leading the resolution of the incidents while providing executive-level communication updates to all stakeholders throughout the entire process. The Incident Manager is also responsible for GCC case quality assurance and oversight of the existing work-on-hand to ensure Service Level Objective (SLO) performance targets are being met. This is a fast-paced position that is highly visible to the executive leadership teams within Ciena and our customers. In addition to managing incidents, you will be expected to contribute to the continued development of the Incident Management team by refining and/or creating new process documents, special handling instructions, daily/weekly reporting on specific areas of the business and managing micro-projects within the team. 

Essential Duties And Responsibilities :

• Evaluates each Incident request for acceptance into Incident Management and follow defined extended outage and high impact notifications  
• Assumes command and control of the situation, coordinating and assembling the appropriate resources required to resolve the Incident. 
• Coordinates the technical resolution plan with GCC engineers and Managers. 
• Collaborates with other functional teams and organizations within Ciena, assumes control of bridge and drives actions to completion. 
• Establishes the communication plan with other stakeholders in Ciena as well as customer – becomes the communication focal point providing regular internal/external updates. 
• Serves as the decisionmaker when collaboration fails to deliver an outcome. 
• Tracks deliverables to ensure timely follow-through is occurring. 
• Sending post-mortem notifications for highly complex outages, required after recovery of outage by GCC, Design & PLM Teams .   
• Closely monitors GCC dashboards to ensure SLOs are met and engages proactively for ongoing outages in recovery. 
• Sending out Heightened Awareness notifications for upcoming catastrophic Weather as well as Geopolitical situations impacting communications network of Ciena customers.
• Apart from Incident Management function, being a 24x7 role, Incident Manager will be supporting for network access of select Ciena customers 

The Must Haves:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field. 
• 3-6 years of experience in an Incident management role, technical support management, or a technical project management role leading complex customer issues and solutions. 
• Excellent presentation, communication, diplomacy and customer relationship management skills to demonstrate comfort and presence in interacting with senior executives. 
• Excellent people management skills (coaching, mentoring, motivating and influencing) to help the Incident response team achieve the desired outcomes. 
• Proven track record working with cross-functional teams in a global environment. 
• Demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo to identify and remove any systemic issues and inefficiencies. 
• Must be a motivated self-starter with excellent time management skills and an ability to work from broad guidelines with minimal supervision. 
• Ability to deal with stressful situations with colleagues and customers. 
• Must be punctual, ready to work in night shifts and able to accept continuous and unusual work hours, typically, at very short notice. 
• Project Management experience is a plus. 
• Must have a demonstrated customer-first and can-do attitude! 

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