Juniper Networks Service Manager

Company: Juniper
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: February 15, 2020

Job Description:

Juniper Networks Service Manager Location: Home Office, France About the Position: The Service Manager (SM) will serve as the primary customer interface for all post sales technical issues for Enterprise and Service Provider customers. This position resides within the Juniper Networks Advanced Services team. Based in FR, Paris. Home office based. Occasional on-site with customer office. French and English fluency. Other languages an advantage. The SM is the single point of contact and customer advocate for the account, working closely with the Juniper Networks delivery teams, such as our technical assistance centre, contracts teams and logistics, as well as the sales and engineering teams on prioritizing and managing all customer issues and escalations. The SM will organize and coordinate (bi-)weekly meetings and periodic on-site technical reviews to present overall JTAC case analysis, work to avoid potential network outages by proactively determining if issues seen with other customer networks pose a risk to their customer environment. Communicate issues internally to product marketing and upper management to keep key players current on major account activity. Key role responsibilities for Service Managers: * Serve as the central point of coordination between the customer, account team, Juniper Technical Assistance Centre (JTAC), Engineering, Product Line Management (PLM) and Customer Services and Sales management * Hold consistent regularly scheduled customer meetings, no longer than every two weeks, preferably weekly. * Successfully manage case escalations: 1. Coordinate the activities with the customer team and Juniper teams. 2. Work with the JTAC team early in the engagement before on-site support is required. 3. Prior to speaking to the customer, hold internal calls with a clear agenda as to what you want to achieve. 4. Document the meeting summary and communicate an action plan to the customer. 5. After the customer meeting, summarize the next steps for those not able to attend. 6. Provide daily updates both, internally and towards the customer, more often if necessary. 7. If issues continue without a clear progress or timeframe for resolution, escalate to management and add to the hot list for more visibility using the normal escalation process. 8. If the situation is critical follow the critical case format. Provide a concise informative weekly report summarizing the key developments with your accounts. Include details such as Problem Report (PR) numbers and case numbers where appropriate so that engineering and other internal people can review. Also show continuity from week to week on outstanding issues and summarize any meetings (other than the regularly scheduled ones). Delineate the ongoing issues from new issues. * Provide written site visit reports to the team after any on site visit other than regularly scheduled meetings. For business reviews/case analysis, indicate customer feedback on the review so Juniper can continue to improve. * Run a Business Objects report every 3 months and prepare a presentation for the customer summarizing the trends seen, both, positive or negative. Analyse the trends for discussion with the customer and define actions to address any issues and concerns. * Develop/maintain a good technical and marketing knowledge of Juniper product lines. * Develop/maintain strong relationships with our partners and customers technical teams. * Participate in customer network planning review meetings. * Have a good understanding of the technology utilized in the assigned customer s environment. * Become intimately familiar with the accounts technical goals and initiatives and provide key insight about such goals and initiatives within Juniper. * Normally support 4-5 customers as their dedicated SM. On large accounts this may be reduced to one customer with more than one network * Travel a minimum of once per quarter to each supported customer. * Coordinate corporate resources as they pertain to the support of your customers. * Support customers with the implementation and operation of Juniper Support Automation Requirements: * This position requires extensive experience in managing large technical account activity. * Requires a strong IP background and experience in Customer Support environments in order to discuss and drive technical issues for the customer in an appropriate manner. * Knowledge in one or more of the technical areas below is required. * Core and edge routing & switching technologies * Internet firewalls * Network management * The candidate must have a proven background in managing customers and a clear ability to prioritize issues, while considering both customer and Juniper requirements. * Must have strong communication, interpersonal and leadership skills and be able to demonstrate a history of high-level achievement in cross-functional organizations. About Juniper: Connect everything. Empower everyone. Ours is a new network one that encourages boundless innovation, inviting the collective wisdom of many to propel the network, and thus the world, forward. This new network is changing the way we think, connect, and do business around the world. At Juniper Networks, we believe the network is the single greatest vehicle for knowledge, understanding, and human advancement that the world has ever known. Now more than ever, the world needs network innovation to connect ideas and unleash our full potential. Juniper is taking a new approach to the network one that is intelligent, agile, secure and open to any vendor and any network environment. Juniper Networks [NYSE: JNPR] is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with over 9,000 employees in 70 countries and nearly $5 billion in revenue. Our customers include the top 100 global service providers and 30,000 enterprises, including the Global Fortune 100 as well as hundreds of federal, state and local government agencies and higher educational organizations. Why Juniper Our vision is for Juniper Networks to become a multi-generational community that empowers people to accomplish the impossible. This requires a perspective that is multi-generational, thinking beyond the markets and products of today and tomorrow to the values that enable a community to prosper for generations. We value trust, integrity, respect, humility, and excellence. We're looking for people who live the values of our culture and can bring our vision to life.

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