Product Support Specialist

Job Description

This role has great influence on customer satisfaction. Handles customer inquiries via phone, email or chat regarding technical issues with software, hardware, online or electronic products. This includes keeping a clear and active focus on inquiry resolution and ensuring that all the necessary action is taken to resolve a customer's inquiry. Provide service in a professional and courteous manner. May respond to inquiries regarding a specific or more complex product (e.g. number of products, complex technologies) or a specific customer (based on customer size or revenue tied to customer, etc.)

About the Role

• Provide Tier 1 support in English via e-mail for customer cases using Salesforce.com and handle incoming calls via the customer service line (95% e-mail, 5% phone support)

• Research requests and confirm expectations with the customer

• Develop product knowledge to resolve customer questions using existing knowledge base, historical records and/or own experience

• Follow established escalation procedures to assign cases to the appropriate level as required

• Analytical skills, attention to detail and consistent follow-through

• Effective interpersonal skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team

About You

• Education:  BA or BS degree required

• 1+ years in a customer service role is highly desired but not required

• Minimum JLPT N3 required (preferred native speaking or N1)

• Strong written and verbal EnglishJapanese communication required

• Support experience with an emphasis on providing excellent service

• Demonstration of critical thinking skills

• Strong initiative and ability to self-manage

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

What’s in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: Currently, as part of our COVID-19 response, our employees are working remotely and following local COVID-19 bylaws and guidelines with the majority of our offices planning to remain remote until further notice. Upon return, we will embrace a hybrid work environment consisting of in-office and remote work.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance; work from anywhere (in country); caregiver paid time off, bereavement leave; company-wide Mental Health Days Off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees - Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency.  Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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