Application Support Supervisor

*Your Title:*
Application Support Manager

*Job Location:
Knoxville, TN
, or*
Lake Oswego, OR (must work 5am-2pm if located in Lake Oswego)

*Our Department:*
Customer Support

*Are you a passionate leader dedicated to empowering a support team and delivering world-class customer service?
What You Will Do*
As an Application Support Manager, you will directly supervise and empower a dynamic team of individual contributors, ensuring high-quality support for our customers and partners. You will foster an environment of clarity and high job satisfaction by aligning team members with job expectations and company goals. This role actively collaborates with Engineering, Sales, Product, and Professional Services to drive continuous product and process improvements based on customer support experiences.

Your Primary Responsibilities Will Include

• Managing personnel activities such as hiring, training, rewarding, motivating, and disciplining staff, providing direction according to established policies and management guidance.
• Setting priorities for the team to ensure task completion and coordinating work activities with other supervisors.
• Establishing, tracking, and reporting on customer service level agreements (SLAs) to ensure best-in-class support.
• Supervising daily activities and sharing responsibility for staff training and development.
• Assisting staff with difficult applications, systems, and technical calls, acting as an advisor to your unit.
• Managing the support call queue, scheduling, call monitoring, and handling escalated customer calls.
• Reviewing closed calls and collaborating with staff for corrections and information.
• Applying operational business practices and coordinating with closely related areas to improve efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI agents to improve operational efficiency, automate repetitive tasks, and enhance the customer or employee experience.

What Skills & Experience You Should Bring
To excel, you should bring an exceptional blend of leadership, customer-service orientation, and robust technical skills. Specifically, you should possess:

• A Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business or related field with a minimum of five years relevant software support experience, including at least one year at the management level.
• Excellent management and leadership skills, with proven experience in hiring, developing, and directing enterprise-level application support teams.
• Extensive knowledge of customer support operations and strong technical proficiency with various business software tools, including MS Office applications, along with full knowledge of your functional area.
• Strong oral and written communication skills to gain cooperation and effectively present technical information.
• Systematic problem-solving and decision-making abilities, exercising sound judgment within established procedures, along with handling confidential information with discretion and demonstrating high integrity.

About Our Location
This position is based in either Knoxville, TN or Lake Oswego, OR. This is an in-office position.

*Compensation:*
Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

*Hiring Range*
$70,278.00–$91,478.00

*Pay Rate Type*
Salary

*Bonus Eligible?*
Yes

*Commission Eligible?*
No

*Benefits:*
Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.

*How to Apply:*
Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the 'Apply Now' button located in this posting.

*Application Deadline:*
Applications could be accepted until at least 30 days from the posting date.

At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values—Belong, Innovate, and Grow—we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at , under "Corporate Governance."

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