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Escalation Manager

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At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

IBM Support for webMethods and Streamsets is responsible for improving the overall customer experience, and includes functions such as Support, New Product Introduction, and Critical Customer Escalation Management.

One important aspect of customer experience is handling critical customer situations. These situations are normally a combination of challenges in different dimensions: project management, product issues, ownership, scope, etc. To handle professionally these complex situations, IBM has a Critical Customer Escalation Management team, with Escalation Managers based all over the world. As an Escalation Manager, you will not only be engaged in a reactive manner to de-escalate critical customer situations, but you might also be engaged proactively with lighthouse customer projects to avoid escalations proactively. From both engagement types, you will drive the Lessons Learned process, deriving internal and external follow-up recommendations.

Responsibilities as Escalation Manager


    • Identify the stakeholders required to successfully de-escalate the situation
    • Take on responsibility for internal and external communication during the escalation
    • Collect all issues leading to the escalation and develop an action plan how to resolve them
    • Coordinate and follow-up on all activities that are part of the action plan
    • Provide regular status reporting to stakeholders, including the project team and executive management
    • Define escalation completion criteria
    • Drive internal follow-up activities to avoid similar situations in the future
    • Identify opportunities to turn the escalation into a success story, including creating upsell opportunities
    • Represent the Critical Customer Escalation Management team in internal management alignments and planning meetings


Required Technical and Professional Expertise


    • 3-5 years’ experience in handling critical customer situations
    • Excellent communication skills, also in front of senior management, both internally and on customer side
    • Outstanding analytical capabilities to decompose the complex situation into its root causes
    • Ability to judge situations in a very objective manner
    • Project management skills to drive the de-escalation as a project
    • Stay calm also in very critical situations
    • Flexibility to take on responsibility for an escalation and, if needed to go onsite
    • Good overview on IT system landscapes and on IBM products is a plus


Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

Experience in Escalation Management in complex setting

About Business Unit

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

Your Life @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

About IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location Statement

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Being You @ IBM

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.