Customer Support Team Lead

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Customer Support Team Lead guiding regional teams supporting CAI Software’s Maritech cloud ERP for seafood manufacturers. Managing performance, escalations, SLAs, and continuous support improvements.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead, mentor, and manage a regional Customer Support Representative team
  • Align team activities and objectives with organizational business goals
  • Collaborate with customer support leadership, internal and external customers, and stakeholders
  • Work shifts overlapping with European and North American customers
  • Conduct 1:1s, performance check-ins, coaching sessions, and skills development training
  • Recruit, onboard, and train new team members
  • Foster a positive, collaborative, accountable, and consultative support culture
  • Monitor and report on SLA, FCR, CSAT, backlog, and productivity metrics
  • Prioritize work and manage support queues
  • Implement quality assurance reviews and documentation best practices
  • Address performance gaps through training and process updates
  • Serve as escalation point for high-impact or complex customer issues
  • Collaborate with Customer Success on customer health, adoption, renewal risk, and proactive support
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Implementation teams on recurring issues and customer feedback
  • Analyze support request patterns to improve documentation, product functionality, and workflows
  • Own and refine SOPs, playbooks, and knowledge base articles
  • Support new product feature rollouts and ensure team readiness

Requirements:

  • 7+ years in SaaS support, customer success, or shared services roles
  • 3–5+ years managing or leading a support or service delivery team; offshore or distributed team experience preferred
  • Graduate, preferably BE in Software Engineering or equivalent
  • Excellent written and verbal Norwegian and English skills
  • Additional language skills such as Spanish, French, or German ideally
  • Ability to manage and participate in switchboard coverage rotation
  • Experience supporting or administering ERP platforms such as NetSuite, SAP Business One, Odoo, Acumatica, Sage, or Oracle ERP Cloud
  • Strong communication skills to coach technical and non-technical support staff
  • Working knowledge of case/ticket management systems such as Zendesk, Freshdesk, Jira Service Management, ServiceNow, or Salesforce
  • Demonstrated ability to manage performance using operational metrics and KPIs
  • Self-driven with a structured approach to task execution
  • Ability and initiative to incorporate AI tools into daily work and champion AI adoption across the team
  • Experience implementing or supporting multi-module ERP environments preferred
  • Basic familiarity with SQL queries, workflow configuration, or API troubleshooting preferred

Benefits:

  • Remote work arrangement
  • Opportunity to work with a global software company serving 6,200+ customers across 15+ industries
  • Exposure to AI-driven performance tools and adoption initiatives
  • Professional development through coaching, skills development training, and onboarding responsibilities