Product Specialist Job Description: Role: To identify customer needs and resolve technical issues regarding Sage’s products and services, demonstrating strong problem-solving capabilities to maximise first-time resolution, enhance customer relationships, and enable an exceptional Sage experience. Skills and know-how: • Communication: Communicates clearly and effectively (both verbal and written) in a way that the customer understands, providing clear and concise solutions to problems. • Active Listening: Actively listens to each customer, remaining focused at all times to ensure attentiveness and enable a response that demonstrates an in-depth understanding of the issue at hand. • Customer Focus: Demonstrates an understanding of customers’ needs, going above and beyond to meet and exceed these, in order to build strong and trusted relationships. • Accountability: Takes responsibility to deliver exceptional customer support, proactively solving problems and driving the best customer outcomes. • Adaptability: Has the flexibility to adapt to varying customer situations, handling change effectively with a positive approach. • Technical Expertise: Demonstrates the technical knowledge on API integration and resolves API integration issues by analysing error logs, response codes, and validating requests and responses to ensure seamless data syncing between Sage Intacct and other systems. • Analytical Ability: Solves problems through data analysis and critical thinking in order to reach logical conclusions and provide optimal solutions This will be a Hybrid opportunity – 3 days in our Bangalore office. Since we have customers based out of US & Australia, an ideal candidate must be open to working in different shifts. #LI-RT Key Responsibilities: Technical support focused: • Through excellent probing and a comprehensive understanding of Sage’s products and services, identifies the root cause of the customer’s software or system issues. • Demonstrates strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, using analysis and testing techniques to solve low to moderately complex issues. • Serves as a frontline technical resource for Sage customers, driving first call resolution by using available resources and tools (e.g., blueprints), as well as identifying cases that require escalation (either strategically or technically) • Ensures technical expertise by staying up to date on applications and systems, as well as processes and procedures, through reading communications and attending training. Customer service essentials: • Owns the customer support experience, providing exceptional assistance by solving customer issues through a variety of channels (telephone, email, chat), adhering to shift schedules, procedures, metrics and goals. • Assists customers in gaining value from their products and services by promoting available features and resources and identifying additional opportunities for Sage’s solutions to address their needs. • Contributes to company knowledge capital by providing feedback to improve the customer/user experience e.g., knowledge base, systems and processes. • Documents customer contact, using relevant systems, in a clear, concise and understandable format, escalating unresolved issues, with pertinent information, to appropriate resources. • Works collaboratively and effectively in a team, maintaining a positive attitude, offering constructive approaches to overcoming difficulties, and treating all individuals with respect. • Prioritise work to balance importance from a customer perspective with operational efficiency, managing time and resources to ensure the best possible outcome for the customer and Sage. #LI-RT Function: Customer Operations Country: India Office Location: Bangalore Work Place type: Hybrid Advert Working at Sage means you’re supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. 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