
Manager, Application Support
- Calgary, AB
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- Assist in developing and maintaining the Application Support team strategy, ensuring execution of the support roadmap
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the strategy and make recommendations for improvements
- Meet regularly with Program and Product Managers to ensure support is being delivered effectively, collaborate on new products and automation
- Identify and escalate repeat support trends, and make recommendations for improvements
- Adopt a methodology for effective knowledge management for support services
- Lead and develop a team of application support specialists with a focus on mentorship and performance
- Ensure team members have adequate technical skillsets to provide well-educated support, recommending opportunities for development, continued training and improvement
- Ensure support teams have adequate capacity to meet service level agreements (SLA)
- Maintain flexibility to travel, as necessary
- Three (3) to five (5) years of experience overseeing and developing high performing support teams
- Proven ability to synthesize and analyze information to understand the larger impact to the business and end users and to provide recommendations to improve overall support best practices
- Previous experience with ServiceNow or similar ITSM system
- Ability to communicate and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders and end users
- Prior experience in strategic planning and execution
- Prior experience supporting a CRM product
- Business process knowledge in Tax products
- Strong understanding of databases / SQL knowledge to support internal business applications
- Experience with DoxCycle, TaxCycle, Profile, TaxPrep, and/or US Tax
- Certification in Knowledge-Centred Service (KCS) methodology an asset
- Experience in professional services considered an asset
- Written and spoken French language proficiency is an asset, but not required