Business Application Specialist

Are you the first point of contact for our customers?

Full-time - North America (Toronto/Oakville, Canada - preferred)

**What will you do as a Business Application Specialist at Sqills?**:
As a Business Application Specialist, you will be our first point of contact for all our American live/production customers with regards to our industry-leading Software as a Service (SaaS) product: S3 Passenger. You will work with the leading inventory and reservation system on the market for rail/bus operators. Do you believe that you can be our primary customer contact regarding incidents, questions and any other urgencies; multitask, while staying focused under pressure and composed to deliver according to our contracted service level agreements? Then, this role might be for you

Part of our America Customer Centric Team (CCT), your strong analytical skills will allow you to promptly analyze our customers’ incidents, requests and questions, and offer timely solutions. You will know S3 Passenger inside-out and you keep abreast with all our American customer’s business processes and needs.

**In short: you will be the one our customers can truly depend on**

To do so, you will ensure to stay informed about the developments of S3 Passenger to be able to help our customers the best way possible. By using the available tooling and through direct contact with the development teams, you will not stop until you have come to a complete solution for our customer.

When new developments are required for a question, you know how to collect the necessary information and partner up with our Business Consultants; so that our development teams can develop a suitable solution.
- According to your experience, you will act as a service manager for one or more customers and become their spokesperson on the operational side.

**Work location**:
Your office will be in Oakville, Ontario where you will spend valuable time discussing client challenges and solutions with your peers. For those days that require dedicated focus, there is plenty of flexibility to work from home, in a hybrid set-up. Fully remote work from North America is also an option; although not preferred.

In addition, we have a global client base, ranging from North America to a strong client base in Europe. With a global go-to-market strategy we are continuously growing and expanding our footprint to Asia Pacific and Middle East. And you will be a crucial element to be successful for our international growth plans, to drive implementations with interactive workshops, consulting and training clients onsite at their offices.

**We are looking for someone who can...**:
- Quickly and adequately answer functional and technical issues/incidents/service request and questions from our customers;- Stay up to date on the changes/improvements of our software, to be able to help the customer as adequately as possible; Partner-up with internal stakeholders, including Business Consultants and Customer Success, to revert timely to customers;- (According to your experience) can transition a customer from project to run phase and train more junior staff on supporting customers.

**What can you expect from Sqills?**:
- An enthusiastic, young, diverse and agile group of ~220 colleagues;- A low sense of hierarchy, this comes with a lot of responsibility- An open yet challenging environment of ambitious young professionals with different backgrounds;- Inspiring and fun outings with the entire company with colleagues from Turkey, France and the Netherlands.

**Your profile**:
- You have a Bachelor degree;- You have at least two years in a similar position;- Experience in SaaS/Product space;- Experience in (troubleshooting in the areas of) cloud, microservice, multi-tier and API first environments;- Experience with NewRelic (or similar), Postman (or similar), Slack, Jira and Confluence;- Able to perform basic environment changes, e.g. restarting an instance, is a plus;- Excellent verbal/written communication skills in English/French (and ideally in Spanish);- Enjoys and performs under pressure;- Strong analytical skills;- Proactive, patient and customer-oriented attitude;- Strong dose of inquisitiveness and curiosity.

**Curious?**: