Application Support Engineer with German

Company Overview

GEP is a diverse, creative team of people passionate about procurement. We invest ourselves entirely in our client's success, creating strong collaborative relationships that deliver extraordinary value year after year. Our clients include market global leaders with far-flung international operations, Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises, leading government and public institutions.

We deliver practical, effective services and software that enable procurement leaders to maximise their impact on business operations, strategy and financial performance. That's just some of the things that we do in our quest to build a beautiful company, enjoy the journey and make a difference. GEP is a place where individuality is prized, and talent respected. We're focused on what is real and effective. GEP is where good ideas and great people are recognized, results matter, and ability and hard work drive achievements. We're a learning organization, actively looking for people to help shape, grow and continually improve us.

Are you one of us?

GEP is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability status, or any other characteristics protected by law. We are committed to hiring and valuing a global diverse work team.

For more information please visit us on GEP.com or check us out on LinkedIn.com.

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What you will do

Role Description (Roles & Responsibilities):

• Develop a sound understanding of the organizational policies, procedures and eProcurement tools and implement it on a day to day basis

• Provide technical assistance via phone, email and webex to clients, across the globe for eProcurement tools

• Proactively communicate issue status in a timely way to the clients and the management.

• Take ownership of issues until they are successfully resolved. Ensuring the timely resolution to meet our 'Service Level Objectives' (SLOs)

• Answering inbound calls of clients as per the SLA`s and ensure resolution on call - first fix

• Making outbound calls to clients if process demands so

• Ensuring complete documentation with the ticketing system for ease of reporting and follow up as per the process

• Efficiently and concisely document support calls/email support inquiries and resolution into the company's tracking system, practicing ITIL concepts

• Filing 'Solutions' and 'Problem Reports'. Co-coordinating with various concerned departments to ensure the dynamic fixture of bugs and issues

• Analysis of issues, collecting of right information

• Willingness to learn

• Perform special projects as requested by the Manager

• Deliver product training courses to customers and internal staff

• Develop a strong professional rapport with assigned customer accounts to help build our business

• Ensure customer feedback as per the set standards of the company

• Practice process improvements as defined

• Perform UAT`s as required and ensure complete documentation as defined - over the weekends • Assist Sales and professional services teams in terms of trainings of products and troubleshooting. Documentation of FAQ`s and maintaining the repository

• Developing training material if need be and updating it on a timely basis
• Functioning as a core part of the team, aligning individual activities to meet the goals of the team and organization at large

• Understand cultural diversity and apply them to build client trust

What you should bring

Skills & Competencies Required:

Primary Skill (Must):

• Excellent communication - written and verbal

• Knowledge of English and German (both spoken and written C1)

• Analytical aptitude and business acumen

• Excellent follow up & coordination skills

• Knowledge of computer software applications, MS Excel, Word & PowerPoint (PF)
• Previous working experience in the field

• Valid work permit for the Czech Republic
• Available to start as soon as possible

Secondary Skills (Preferred):

• ITIL Certification

• Knowhow of Procurement or Supply Chain management

Behavioral Skills: Team player, high motivation, positive, can-do attitude, flexibility and adaptable to changing situations, flexible, self-starter