IFS
Technology
EscalationPreventionSpecialist
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“Escalation Prevention Specialist at IFS. Skills: escalation management, customer risk assessment, cross-functional collaboration, communication. The Escalation Prevention Specialist proactively identifies, manages, and resolves customer risk scenarios to prevent and support de-escalation of customer issues. This role acts as a central coordinator, ensuring alignment across support, R&D, and customer stakeholders to accelerate resolution of critical issues and deliver clear communication to senio”
What You'll Achieve.
Enhance customer satisfaction and maximize lifetime value, thereby fostering customer retention and renewals. Ensure a positive and enduring customer relationship by providing assurance and effective control in challenging situations. Contribute directly to customer satisfaction, retention, and operational excellence by ensuring high-risk situations are effectively managed and prevented from escalating.
Industry & Context.
analytical; structured; methodical approach
Embraces flexibility and hybrid work opportunities while valuing inclusive workplace experiences. Fosters a sense of community to drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Requires a minimum of 3 years' experience in a mission-critical support or operations environment, with demonstrated experience managing high-risk or escalated customer scenarios. Essential skills include critical thinking, analytical and structured problem-solving, excellent communication (written and verbal), stakeholder management, influencing skills, ability to work independently, understanding of support operations and SLAs, ability to quickly understand customer environments, and proven ability to meet deadlines in fast-paced environments.
Nice to Have
Desirable qualifications include knowledge of IFS products, architecture, and underlying technologies, and experience operating within matrixed, global organizations.
What You'll Do.
The Escalation Prevention Specialist proactively identifies
and resolves customer risk scenarios to prevent and support de-escalation of customer issues. This role acts as a central coordinator
ensuring alignment across support
and customer stakeholders to accelerate resolution of critical issues and deliver clear communication to senior leadership
ultimately contributing to customer satisfaction and retention.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Works closely with Support, R&D, Customer Success, and Escalation Management teams, coordinating effectively across global and matrixed teams to drive alignment on priorities, actions, and timelines.
Communication Scope
executive-level engagement; status reporting
Full Job Description
IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge. At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust. We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world. We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference. If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS. The Customer Office operates as a part of Unified Support, with a primary responsibility for managing the support relationship with IFS
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