Federal Service Manager

Verizon Verizon · Telecom · Alexandria, VA

This role is a Federal Service Manager for Verizon, acting as a customer advocate for government agencies like DISA/DITCO. The primary responsibilities include managing customer relationships, escalating and resolving issues, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring adherence to quality standards for a range of technologies and services. It involves post-project implementation support and maintaining lifecycle relationships with clients.

What you'd actually do

  1. The Military Program SM serves as the primary customer interface for trouble escalation and is responsible for maintaining customer relationships and improving customer satisfaction.
  2. The SM will coordinate efforts for customer issue resolution, often requiring considerable coordination of cross-functional team members and high levels of functional integration.
  3. The SM will is responsible for post project implementation customer advocacy with responsibilities for assigning individual responsibilities, identifying appropriate resources and ensuring timely issue resolution.
  4. The SM will be responsible for issue related escalations to all levels of leadership within Verizon or outside of Verizon as required for issue resolution.
  5. The SM will ensure adherence to quality standards and work with team members to craft or improve processes as required for issue resolution or quality enhancement.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience
  • Three or more years of relevant work experience
  • Three or more years of Federal government experience
  • Three or more years of service management experience
  • Eligibility to obtain and maintain a government issued Secret security clearance
  • Experience leading and escalating within cross-functional teams

Nice to have

  • A degree
  • Five or more years of relevant work experience
  • Five or more years of Federal government experience
  • Five or more years of experience working under the WITS3 Contract
  • Five or more years of service management experience
  • Five or more years escalating within Verizon departments and escalating within external corporations
  • Working knowledge of a diverse range of Verizon product offerings
  • Demonstrated capabilities of multi-tasking, prioritizing, working independently and driving issues to resolution
  • ITIL v3 certification
  • Six sigma yellow belt certification
  • Proven track record of success in driving change and leading process improvement efforts and excels in identifying new areas of opportunity
  • Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
  • Strong communication and presentation skills

What the JD emphasized

  • Federal government experience
  • service management experience
  • escalating within cross-functional teams
  • escalating within Verizon departments and escalating within external corporations