Digital Transformation Expert (SME) Location: Remote The Product Expert (SME) is a customer-facing, position chartered with engaging customers in a consultative capacity and providing specialized expertise around industry standards, best practices, competitive landscape, the contact center industry, and other contact center ecosystem topics including but not limited to Partner. This position, will be responsible for both technical and business tasks including managing customer expectations and satisfaction, recommending the ideal configuration for NICE inContact products based on industry best practices and customer requirements, coordinating all the necessary internal resources, and in general ensuring the customer's desired business outcomes are satisfied.
Client interaction will be done primarily over the phone and/or via WebEx, with face to face meetings as deemed necessary and/or appropriate. The SME will work both independently and in concert with the Sales and Technical Services team. Together, these teams are responsible to ensure both customer longevity and systematic growth. The SME is also an organizational leader and is expected to serve as a mentor and coach to employees supporting our reporting products.
Major Functions/Responsibility
This position is responsible for business and technical performance related to Partner, with secondary responsibilities understanding the NICE inContact product suite.
TECHNICAL
Provide technical configuration, best practice guidance and customized training to customers for the Partner product family.
Engage internal product management organizations as necessary to ensure customer requirements are prioritized and incorporated into product roadmaps
Maintain expertise and currency in industry leading contact center methodologies, processes, and technologies surrounding the use of Partner products
PROJECT
Serve in a project management capacity, driving a successful customer/partner engagement lifecycle, ensuring appropriate internal resources are engaged as needed.
Provide business analysis, business area assessment, user needs analysis and business systems design for assigned projects.
BUSINESS
Demonstrate ability to manage client relationships at the Executive and Front Line Management level
Consult on NICE inContact Partner capabilities, available technologies and solutions
Assist internal training department to develop targeted product certification programs which ensure customer facing employees have the skills needed to appropriately represent our products with customers
To Land This Gig You'll Need:
BS/BA in technical (e.g., CS/IS/EE) or business (e.g., Marketing/MIS) field or equivalent work experience required. MBA Preferred
6+ years of customer engagement and industry experience beyond education requirements above
4-5 years of experience with Partner products and technologies
1-3 years of experience in Contact/Call Centers or Technical & Customer Support operations
Type of experience varies depending on Product Experts area of specialization:
Implementation: broad skills in both technology & analysis; experience in communicating at a technical and functional level while managing business rapport.
Business Optimization: deep skills around business analysis/contact centers; experience in the KPIs and best practices of contact centers and their operations.
Education & Enablement: professional and confident public presence; experience in commanding large audiences as a trainer and/or speaker.
Industry experience related to the specific product with understanding of technical and business needs from an implementation, technical or consultant practice
Strong consulting skill set to uncover, strategize, and align client goals and objectives with a product solution
Ability to display strong and commanding confidence as a product expert
ABOUT NICE inContact: NICE inContact makes it easy and affordable for organizations around the globe to provide exceptional customer experiences while meeting key business metrics. NICE inContact provides the world's #1 cloud customer experience platform, NICE inContact CXone™, combining best-in-class Omnichannel Routing, Workforce Optimization, Analytics, Automation and Artificial Intelligence on an Open Cloud Foundation. NICE inContact is a part of NICE (Nasdaq: NICE), the worldwide leading provider of both cloud and on-premises enterprise software solutions.