Manager Customer Services

Caterpillar · Industrial · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais

Manager Customer Services role at Caterpillar, focusing on leading a regional customer support team, managing escalations, ensuring timely communication, and driving adherence to service metrics. The role involves coaching direct reports, supporting continuous improvement projects, and partnering with dealers and internal teams to enhance customer support experience. Requires strong customer focus, data analysis, decision-making, and relationship management skills, with a preference for experience in leading support teams and mining industry experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the regional escalation point of contact for customer issues; ensure timely, clear customer communication and stakeholder updates.
  2. Perform daily queue management tasks to ensure customer issues are assigned, progressed, and resolved effectively.
  3. Coach and develop direct reports through bi-weekly 1:1s, performance feedback, and skill-building plans aligned to customer needs.
  4. Drive adherence to response, restoration, and resolution target metrics; support completion of After-Action Reports (AARs) for missed targets.
  5. Support and lead continuous improvement work, including A3 problem-solving projects.

Skills

Required

  • Customer Focus
  • Data Gathering & Analysis
  • Decision Making and Critical Thinking
  • Relationship Management
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Pre-advanced English

Nice to have

  • Experience leading customer support or technical support teams (helpdesk, support center, or similar environment).
  • Demonstrated ability to manage escalations, prioritize work, and deliver to SLAs/target metrics (response, restoration, resolution).
  • Strong coaching and people leadership skills, including recurring 1:1s, performance development, and onboarding support.
  • Working knowledge of information technologies and support tools used to diagnose and resolve customer issues.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills; ability to coordinate across internal teams and dealers.
  • Ability to apply structured problem solving (e.g., A3) and produce clear incident documentation (e.g., After Action Reports).
  • Mining industry experience.