Customer Service Manager
MACOM View all jobs
- Shenzhen, Guangdong
- Permanent
- Full-time
The Customer Service Manager is responsible for leading the customer service function to deliver exceptional customer experience while supporting MACOM's commercial and operational objectives. This role oversees day-to-day customer service operations, ensures pricing and order management accuracy, and acts as a key interface between customers, Sales, Business Operations, and Product Lines. The position also plays a critical role in team leadership, capability development, and process excellence.Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Leadership & Team Management
- Lead, coach, and develop the Customer Service team, including performance management, training, and mentoring of team members
- Provide clear directions, set priorities, and ensure consistent execution of customer service standards
- Foster a collaborative, accountable, and customer-focused team environment
- Serve as escalation point for complex customer issues, pricing disputes, and operational challenges Customer & Order Management
- Oversee order management activities, including new orders, change orders, sample orders, returns, and credit/debit transactions, ensuring accuracy and compliance with internal policies
- Ensure proactive management of customer backlogs and effective handling of reschedule requests to align with supply chain and business priorities
- Manage workload distribution to consistently meet internal SLAs and external customer commitments
- Oversee customer Requests for Quotation (RFQs), ensuring pricing accuracy, historical analysis, and proper application of special terms
- Influence stakeholders across different functions and personality types to align on shared business goals
- Support regional and corporate initiatives by ensuring customer service alignment with broader business strategies
- Process Improvement & Governance
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and customer satisfaction
- Ensure consistent use of SAP and adherence to standard operating procedures
- Identify process gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities, and lead corrective actions
- Support audits, compliance activities, and internal controls as required
- Strong people leadership and coaching capabilities
- Advanced customer relationship management skills
- Sound decision-making, prioritization, and time-management abilities
- Solid business acumen with understanding of pricing, margins, and operational trade-offs
- Ability to influence without authority and manage complex stakeholder interactions
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Strong problem-solving mindset with a proactive, solution-oriented approach
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Strong working knowledge of SAP
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent)
- 12+ years of customer service, with prior people-management or team-lead experience preferred