Lead a customer service team handling complex escalations, managing daily operations and performance, developing agents, and using data and customer insight to improve service and support product initiatives.
Customer Service Manager
๐ Description
- Oversee customer experience activities in Germany and guide day-to-day execution and continuous improvement.
- Manage the outsourced support partnership and review service levels, CSAT, and FTR performance.
- Coordinate with Product, Marketing, Delivery, and Legal on campaigns, product updates, and customer feedback.
- Gather German customer insights and advocate for improvements across the business.
- Lead responses to incidents and high-tier customer escalations.
- Coordinate workload forecasting and agent coverage for high-volume promotional periods.
๐ ๏ธ Requirements
- Solid experience managing customer service or customer experience teams.
- Experience managing or working closely with outsourced support partners at scale.
- Fluent German or deep experience supporting the German/DACH region, with hands-on experience across email, voice, and live chat.
- Confident using CSAT, FTR, and SLA metrics to guide decisions and partner performance.
- Strong cross-functional communication, organization, forecasting, and planning skills.
- Comfortable managing incidents and escalations under pressure.
- Business-fluent German and English.
Full job description
Omaze is reinventing fundraising by offering people the chance to win once-in-a-lifetime prizes while raising millions for charities around the world. Since launching in the UK in 2020, we've become one of the fastest-growing companies in the country and now, weโre scaling our impact across Europe.
We launched in Germany in June 2025 with ambitious growth goals and a clear mission: raise significant funds for local charities while delivering unforgettable experiences to our customers. In the UK alone, we've raised over ยฃ150 million for charity, and created over 40 new millionaires.
Now, weโre building a standout team in Germany โ and we need your help to do it.
Learn more at omaze.de.
๐ About The Job
As our Customer Service Manager, youโll play a key role in delivering a seamless, high-quality customer experience across every interaction. Youโll own and steer our customer experience activities in Germany, while overseeing a larger outsourced support function, ensuring we consistently meet performance targets across email, voice and live chat.
Working closely with senior leadership, youโll contribute to shaping and refining our customer experience strategy, while taking ownership of its day-to-day execution and continuous optimisation in the German market.
Youโll be responsible for building scalable processes, improving tools and documentation, employing technology and enabling the team to respond efficiently as demand grows. Acting as the voice of the customer, youโll surface insights, identify trends and work cross-functionally to improve the overall customer journey.
๐ง What Youโll Be Doing
Vendor Relationship & Governance: Building and nurturing a strong, collaborative partnership with our outsourced support provider to ensure high-performance execution across the German market.
Cross-Functional Alignment: Serving as the key liaison between the outsourced team and internal Omaze functions (Product, Marketing, Delivery, Legal) to align on upcoming German campaigns, product updates, and customer feedback.
Service Level & Performance Oversight: Driving daily, weekly, and monthly performance reviews with vendor leadership to ensure email, voice, and live chat SLAs, CSAT, and FTR targets are consistently met for German customers.
Voice of the German Customer: Gathering local customer insights, market-specific nuances, and recurring trends to advocate for improvements directly with cross-functional business partners.
Escalation & Incident Management: Leading the CX response to local incidents and handling high-tier German customer escalations with empathy, local market context, and sound judgment.
Resource & Capacity Coordination: Partnering with vendor management on workload forecasting and planning to ensure efficient agent coverage during high-volume promotional periods in Germany.
Cross-Departmental Initiatives: Representing the CX function in broader business initiatives to champion a seamless, end-to-end experience for the German audience.
๐ซต About You
Customer Operations Experience: Solid experience managing customer service or customer experience teams.
Vendor Management Experience: Experience managing or working closely with outsourced support partners at scale, with a focus on building strong relationships and driving partner performance.
German Market & Channel Expertise: Fluent in German (or deep experience managing support for the German/DACH region) with hands-on experience across multiple support channels (email, voice, and live chat).
Metrics & Data-Driven: Confident working with performance metrics (CSAT, FTR, SLAs) and using data to drive decisions and coach partner teams.
Cross-Functional Collaborator: A clear and confident communicator who collaborates effectively across internal teams (Product, Marketing, Delivery) and acts as the connective tissue with external partners.
Technology-curious: A drive to find technical solutions to improving customer experience, cost and scalability.
Balanced Strategy & Execution: Enjoys contributing to broader planning, with a strong focus on hands-on execution.
Organized & Predictive: Highly organized, effectively using existing forecasting, planning, and quality control tools to help our teams deliver the best customer experience.
Escalations & Pressure: You handle pressure well and are confident in managing incidents and escalations.
Customer-Centric: Customer-focused, with a genuine interest in understanding and improving the end-to-end experience for our German audience.
Why Youโll Love Working at Omaze
Mission: Every day, your work helps raise life-changing funds for vital charities.
Growth: Omaze is scaling fast in Germany this is your chance to help shape a new market.
Creativity: Youโll help bring surprise, delight, and impact to every conversation.
Culture: Weโre ambitious, purpose-driven, and believe joy belongs at work too.
Extra information:
โญ Office Policy: 3 days in person, 2 days at home each week
๐ Contract type: Permanent, full time
๐ฌ Language Requirements: German and English business fluent
We actively seek out diversity of thought and experience to drive innovation. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and perspectives and work hard to ensure that every Omaze employee can bring their authentic self to work at all times.
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