Customer Support Team Lead

Job Description

Job Description

Customer Support Team Lead

About CAI

CAI Software builds digital work execution platforms and software solutions that help manufacturing businesses operate with greater clarity and control. Our people bring structure to complexity by replacing fragmented, paper-based processes with connected digital workflows that improve visibility, compliance, and decision-making in real industrial environments. With 45+ years of experience and a presence across 10+ countries, CAI combines deep industry understanding with practical technology. Our teams work across 15 core industries and support 5,000+ customers, guided by sound judgment, long-term thinking, and outcomes that endure.

CAI Business Units and the Markets We Serve

CAI Software is organized into three business units - Graphic Communications, Process Manufacturing, and Discrete Manufacturing – aligned to the markets we serve. This structure allows our teams to stay close to customer needs while operating with the scale and support of a global software company.

This role is part of our Process Manufacturing business unit, which provides ERP and operational software to manufacturers that transform raw materials into finished goods through formulas, recipes, or batch-driven processes. We work with small to enterprise manufacturers across industries such as food and beverage, bottling, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, chemicals, paint, paper, tile, and supply chain logistics—supporting end-to-end operations from sourcing through production and distribution.

About the Role

The Customer Support Manager oversees a team of Customer Support Representatives (CSRs) responsible for providing high-quality support for users of our SaaS ERP platform. This role focuses on coaching, performance management, metrics-driven execution, and cultivating a consultative support approach that helps customers maximize the value of the platform. The Manager ensures SLA adherence, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement across the team, while partnering with cross-functional leaders to escalate systemic issues and drive product and process enhancements.

What You’ll Do

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, mentor, and manage a global/offshore CSR team to deliver consistent, high-quality customer support.
• Supervise a group of team resources and align your team’s activities/objectives with organizational business goals. 
• Interact with all levels of the customer support organization from Senior Management to Customer Support Representative level, internal/external customers and stakeholders. 
• Availability to work a shift that overlaps with European and North American Customers to collaborate with customers and CAI Leadership.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance check-ins, coaching sessions, and skills development training.
• Recruit, onboard, and train new team members to ensure capability and cultural alignment.
• Foster a positive, collaborative, accountable, consultative support culture focused on customer success.

Operational & Performance Management

• Monitor and report on key support metrics (SLA, FCR, CSAT, backlog, productivity).
• Ensure work is prioritized effectively and support queues are consistently managed.
• Implement QA reviews to ensure adherence to support standards and documentation best practices.
• Identify performance gaps and take timely action to resolve them (training, process updates, etc.).

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as the point of escalation for high-impact or complex customer issues.
• Collaborate with Customer Success to align on customer health, adoption, renewal risk, and proactive support opportunities.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Implementation teams to relay recurring issue trends and customer feedback.

Continuous Improvement

• Analyze patterns in support requests to drive improvements in documentation, product functionality, and internal workflows.
• Own and refine Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), playbooks, and knowledge base articles.
• Support rollout of new product features and ensure team readiness (process, training, resource updates).

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years in SaaS support, customer success, or shared services roles.
• 3-5+ years managing or leading a support or service delivery team (offshore or distributed team experience preferred).

• Graduate, preferably BE in Software Engineering or equivalent.

• Strong communication skills need to be both written and verbal in English. Additional language skills such as Spanish, French or German ideally.
• Experience supporting or administering ERP platforms (e.g., NetSuite, SAP Business One, Odoo, Acumatica, Sage, Oracle ERP Cloud).
• Strong communication skills with the ability to coach both technical and non-technical support staff.
• Demonstrated ability to manage performance using operational metrics and KPIs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing or supporting multi-module ERP environments (Finance, Supply Chain, HR, Payroll, Project Business, etc.).
• Familiarity with support tools such as Zendesk, Freshdesk, Jira Service Management, ServiceNow, or similar platforms.
• Basic familiarity with SQL queries, workflow configuration, or API troubleshooting.

Why Join Us
You’ll have the opportunity to drive some of the most critical transformation initiatives in our company’s history. This is a highly visible role working directly with senior leadership to shape the future operating model of CAI. You’ll bring clarity, discipline, and execution focus to complex cross-functional programs while gaining exposure across every function of the business.

Equal Employment Opportunity

CAI Software is an Equal Opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression), religion, disability, , genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal law.

Disability Accommodation

CAI Software endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use the online application process and need an alternative method for applying, please contact us at View email address on ziprecruiter.com or send an e-mail with your specific accommodation request.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. CAI Software does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of citizenship or immigration status in accordance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) .

Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination

CAI Software will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).