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The Customer Care Advisor at Silverchair provides support to academic and scholarly scientific, technical and medical publishing customers with content hosted on our ScholarOne platform. This team member will interface directly with Silverchair customers and will be the face of the company to them, building and maintaining effective, positive, professional partnerships with customers and becoming a trusted advisor to our clients in troubleshooting their issues. This position is responsible for customer content problem intake and ensuring tickets and issues are fully documented. This team member will replicate customer problems and perform Tier 1 support, working with technical peers and routing problems efficiently.
Essential Functions:
Must be able to work 3pm-12am ET time, M-F. Initial training phase will require working 8am-5pm ET.
Acts as first point of contact for assistance via phone, e-mail, chat, or customer service systems.
Cultivates an extensive understanding of the product
Gathers information from customers to efficiently diagnose and understand issues, leverages exceptional customer service skills to deliver outstanding service to clients.
Escalates more complex or unique issues to senior staff and follows up with customers accordingly to ensure transparent communication
Documents detailed support requests and customer interactions accurately and thoroughly
Proactively identifies when a customer is at risk and follows the adequate process by raising it to the relevant internal stakeholders.
Availability for potential periodic 24/7 on-call shifts
Required Skills:
Qualified candidates will have excellent professional oral and written communication skills, the ability to communicate factually and accurately with external customers without making unwarranted assumptions, and effective collaborative, dialog-building skills to include listening and Q&A.
Successful candidates possess robust problem-solving abilities and can quickly master new tools and techniques.
Importantly, the ideal candidate will demonstrate a dedication to collaborating effectively as part of an international team in a high-performance work environment.
Desired Experience
Two year undergraduate degree, preferably in computer science, information science, or a related field; lesser degrees must be accompanied by equivalent relevant experience
Past technical support or customer support experience working for a software company
Experience with ScholarOne or experience in the STEM publishing industry a plus
Experience with Salesforce a plus
Disclaimers: At this time, we cannot sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.