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Service Operations Leader
We have an opportunity for a Service Operations Leader to join us at Honeywell in Oman, Muscat.
The Service Operations Leader will drive operational excellence within the assigned territory customer group. The SOL will be accountable for ensuring, effective customer engagement from the local Lifecycle Solutions & Services (LSS) and broader Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) team. The role will ensure all Contracts are renewed on time and drive growth across all LSS modes of service delivery. This will be achieved through effective Workforce planning, delivery coordination, and ensuring the delivery teams engaged with the customer base are competent to execute all committed deliveries in manner that ensure compliance to Honeywell and Customer Health, Safety and Environmental requirements in the most effective and efficient way compliant to LSS Global Service Methodologies (GSM)


Key responsibilities
Some of the key responsibilities will include the following:
Customer Engagement

• Understand our Customer base needs and identify growth opportunities to be passed to sales or pursued directly.

• Develop a clear understanding of assigned Customers’ business drivers, historical and present issues.

• Develop and deploy a prioritized Customer engagement plan (MOS) for assigned customers.

• Through consistent engagement, develop strong trust relationships with key contacts in the assigned accounts.

• As appropriate, develop and expand the customer network in all directions, particularly up and across their organization.

• Present deliverables reports to Customers and Honeywell leadership as required.

• Manage the day to day concerns of the Customer, including corrective actions, ensuring satisfactory completion for all parties.

• Become the primary escalation point for Customer issues and sales support needs.

Renewal & Growth

• Based on customer understanding, identify Honeywell solutions to offer Customer.

• Consistently support the development of white space analysis for new opportunities and utilize to drive LSS business increases.

• Drive Accountable for the contract renewal process from site data collection to PO receipt.

• Provide sales support in the development of new accounts or significant service scope increase

• Assist in identifying and communicating cross-SBU/One Honeywell opportunities to the relevant SBU.

Operational Support

• Drive the Honeywell safety culture through demonstrated understanding, commitment and action supporting the organization’s safety and environmental requirements/regulations. Ensure FSS’s observe and operate both Honeywell and customer safe systems of work, complying with all legislation.

• Use SFDC tools for coordinating field resources for all service execution and order to invoice management. This includes coaching the FSS to manage their work, capture service delivery according to the GSM process, and escalate deviations to FSM/SBM as required.

• Ensure the financial health of all agreements and spot activities, and ensure they are invoiced per the agreed schedule, milestones and with all collectibles on time.

• Ensure Spot and Parts orders are managed to meet customer and Honeywell delivery expectations.

• Own the Net Promotor Score and manage the Customer satisfaction survey process as part of the regular reviews MOS established with the customer.

• Ensure adherence to existing global quality processes as well as continuously developing and implementing improvements.

• Build a strong network across the local/global HPS business teams to ensure customer delivery satisfaction.

• Ensure Service Management System and ERP system integrity such as correct account team assignment in SFDC.

• Coordinate with the Back Office to review and correct Customer asset, account team, and contract information in Siebel or other software applications.

• Manage the preparation and ongoing maintenance of Customer site portals as required.

• Contribute to accurate forecasting for all financial aspects of LSS contracts, spot and parts

Work Force Planning

• Using SFDC Labor SIOP Tools, schedule appropriate resources to provide sales support, contract, project & short cycle delivery in line with commitments and business needs

• Establish a relationship with GES for outsourcing packaged work.

• Manage leave & sick leave coverage, and after hours on-call rosters

• Ensure Work Execution planning is completed to understand the resource and skill requirements.

• Engage with Global Mobility Services to ensure correct visas, etc. are in place for foreign workers, in partnership with FSM.

• Work with other LSS, PAS and AS workforce planners as required.

• Provide SIOP labor planning in line with backlog and front log to ensure labor resourcing is optimized, where the front log information is provided by the FSM.

• Identify and maintain a pipeline to a flexible workforce to cover peaks in demand of labor resources.

Training and development
Key skills and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field

• Recognized Industrial Automation & Control technical training

• 10 Years of process automation industry experience.

• 5 Years of experience supporting a Services organization with exposure to periodic customer contracts.

• Understanding of Honeywell HPS solutions to enable opportunity development.

• Sales and negotiation skills to enable contract and short cycle opportunity selling and order closure

• Able to influence customer and internal contacts.

• Effective communicator with demonstrated success in team environments.

• Proven effectiveness in a highly matrixed organization

• Native speaker for customer territory assigned as well as fluent in English

Our offer

• A culture that fosters inclusion, diversity, and innovation in an international work environment

• Market specific training and ongoing personal development.

• Experienced leaders to support your professional development.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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Additional Information

• JOB ID: HRD246512
• Category: Customer Experience
• Location: 1814 Sayh Al Malih Street Qurum,Muscat,OMAN,114,Oman
• Exempt