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Digital Direction

Telecommunication Customer Support Specialist

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Hiring Remotely in Chicago, IL, USA
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In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in Chicago, IL, USA
Expert/Leader
Serve as primary operations contact for telecom customers, managing orders, inventory, contracts, trouble tickets, escalations, billing, and project coordinating moves/adds/changes/disconnects; troubleshoot with carriers and maintain positive customer relationships.
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This position is responsible for representing Digital Direction as the main operations contact for our existing and new customer base.  The position offers virtual office (remote).  
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Minimum of 10+ years Telecom operations experience in customer service
  • Candidate should be self-managed and driven
  • Responsible for the operational daily management of telecommunications including;
    • Customer inventory
    • Order management
    • Contract management and administration
    • Trouble tickets- high-level of product knowledge needed to trouble shoot with the customer and carriers for quick resolution
    • Escalations
    • Billing issues
  • Project coordination of customer moves, adds, change, and disconnect orders
  • Voice and data migrations
  • Ability to maintain positive customer and internal relationships
  • Must have superior skills in communication and issue resolution
  • Candidate must possess a high understanding of Telecom contracts
  • Background in managing legacy telco products including; POTS, PBX, DSL, ISDN BRI and PRI, MPLS, SONET, DS1, DS3, Digitally Trunked T1, and Centrex.
  • Background in managing and ordering SD-WAN, SIP, UCaaS, CCaaS, and other Cloud technologies
  • Ability to understand, analyze and explain Telco USOCs on CSRs
  • You must be able to review telecom order packages, submit to carrier, then manage project through installation
  • Implement projects to local and IXC Telcos including AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Lumen, Windstream, as well as other telecommunications companies
  • Build inventory records utilizing CSRs

Review of Daily Responsibilities:

Manage and support Customers – New Orders, MAC Orders, Move Orders, Complex Orders and Disconnect Orders, Billing Ticket resolution, Trouble Ticket Resolution, Escalate and Monitor Outages, Project Manage All orders through completion. 

Review of Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of high-level experience in a related field operations within a telecommunications company
  • Must have excellent customer service skills and interpersonal skills
  • Must have advanced level skills in MS Office with a focus on Excel
  • Ability to work under pressure and to multi-task
  • Proactive, self-motivated, and determined attitude
  • Customer focused with an eagerness to engage when issues are encountered

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