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Supervisor, Bilingual Premium Support (French/English)

RemoteCanada only
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Role
Support
Experience
Senior
Company size
Enterprise
CAD 80k–CAD 93k/yr
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Customer support operations supervisor based in Canada, with 6+ years in customer service or operations and 3+ years directly managing people. Must be fluent in written and spoken French and English and able to work weekends, holidays, and on-call as needed. Needs team performance management, crisis/escalation handling, data/reporting, and customer service operations experience.

Optional skills

TableauSQLExcelGoogle Sheets

Required languages

English Fluent spoken and written; required=yes.French Fluent spoken and written; required=yes.

What you'll do

  • Supervise a strong operational environment for teams and ensure high-quality support to the community through the team.
  • Manage the team's execution of complex, sensitive, or urgent issues that may represent significant risk to the brand or community, including acting as the final escalation point for case consultations and high-level escalations from other stakeholders.
  • Meet regularly with direct reports to review their work and provide quality behavior-based coaching.
  • Create a performance development strategy or plan for the service or services supported.
  • Provide the team with best-practice guidelines for case and situation management, and ensure work methods are documented and followed.
  • Ensure the team is always adequately staffed and that staff complete onboarding and ongoing training.
  • Drive performance at ambassador, team, and service level.
  • Hold each team member accountable for meeting performance goals fairly and equitably by setting clear expectations, following up individually, and providing positive coaching to develop and improve each person's skills in a personalized way.
  • Manage ambassador and team performance, including identifying performance trends, offering corrective measures and overall positive feedback, and writing year-end reviews and improvement plans.
  • Provide recommendations on setting service goals.
  • Collaborate with regional Talent teams to execute personal improvement plans and terminations as needed.
  • Build and cultivate an engaged and diverse team.
  • Own and manage end-to-end people strategy and operations within the ambassador team to foster a high-performing and sustainable team environment, including hiring, onboarding promotion, talent development and engagement, staff wellbeing and morale.
  • Support the professional success of the team and each person by encouraging the team to meet and exceed expectations through clear goals, feedback, one-on-ones, and coaching.
  • Support professional development within the team by finding and creating development opportunities and leveraging company-wide resources to regularly develop the team.
  • Perform routine management tasks such as leave approval, team and individual meetings, and management of Talent-related issues.
  • Maintain a culture of openness, transparency, and accountability that enables teams to do their best work while staying authentic.
  • Demonstrate strong leadership on important issues such as diversity and belonging, allyship, ethics, compliance, and maintaining high service standards for the company.
  • Support strategic initiatives within Service Delivery and the service as needed.
  • Guide the team toward successful execution of company strategic changes or goals or other initiatives within the service by relaying updates and changes, communicating new requirements, and providing feedback.
  • Support internal Service Delivery performance and operations improvement projects as needed, in collaboration with the Delivery Excellence team and cross-functional partners.
  • Use critical thinking and constantly evaluate procedures.
  • Gather team feedback to identify opportunities to improve performance and better optimize processes for the team, service, and global community.

What they require

  • 6+ years of progressive experience in a customer service or operations role, including 3 years in a direct people management role and employee lifecycle management.
  • Fluency in English and French, spoken and written, is required.
  • Demonstrable experience improving team performance as a line manager.
  • Experience deploying resources to manage real-time crisis situations, including high-severity or sensitive case management and loss-related decision authority.
  • Experience in data analysis and reporting to identify performance trends, and in developing and implementing performance management standards.
  • Ability to work weekends, holidays, and be available on call as needed.
  • Good leadership and team management skills to lead a team of professionals, including comfort with conflict management, giving and receiving feedback, and managing personnel and Talent issues.
  • Strong communication skills to collaborate with different stakeholders and manage sensitive cases while remaining calm and composed under pressure.
  • Organized and resourceful; able to juggle multiple tasks at once, with attention to detail and consistency, even in ambiguous situations.
  • Deep understanding of customer service operations and processes.
  • Ability to relay information with context and guide the team through changes.
  • Cultural competence and strong commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion within the team.
  • Proficiency with various data analysis and reporting tools to track performance trends.
  • Candidate must be based in Canada.
  • Currently, employees can be located in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, or Saskatchewan.

Benefits

  • May be eligible for bonus.
  • May be eligible for equity.
  • May be eligible for benefits.
  • May be eligible for Employee Travel Credits.

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