Customer Support Manager - Aerospace & Defense, MRO (6 month contract)

Responsibilities

Lead the day-to-day operations of the EMX Support Team, ensuring customer cases are managed professionally and in alignment with global standards. Collaborate with internal teams such as R&D and Consulting to resolve complex issues while driving continuous improvement in support workflows.

Requirements

Requires experience in application or technical support, specifically within aviation, MRO, or defense environments. Strong proficiency in case ownership, SLA-driven service delivery, and familiarity with work-tracking tools like ServiceNow or Jira is essential.

Skills

• Customer support management
• Case management
• Incident handling
• SLA management
• KPI-driven service delivery
• Application support
• Technical troubleshooting
• Aviation maintenance software
• ServiceNow
• Jira
• Team leadership
• Stakeholder management
• Process improvement
• Knowledge management
• Escalation management
• Communication

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Sick leave
• Holiday pay
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401k with company contribution
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Tuition assistance
• Community involvement and volunteering events

About this role

Company Description
IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.
At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.
We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.
By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.
We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.
If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.
Job Description
We are looking for a Customer Support Manager to join our EMX Support Team on a temporary basis to provide maternity leave coverage. This role leads EMX customer support operations through the IFS Service Centre process, ensuring customer cases are managed professionally, consistently and in line with global IFS support standards.
You will oversee the day-to-day activities of the EMX Support Team, including case management, prioritization, escalations, service-level expectations and customer communication. You will support and develop the team and work closely with internal teams such as R&D, QA, DB and Consulting to progress customer issues to resolution. The role also supports the continued alignment of EMX support operations with IFS standard processes, governance, customer communication, documentation and knowledge-sharing practices.
Knowledge of EMX/Empower MX, aviation maintenance software, enterprise application support or customer support operations would be beneficial.
Knowledge of aviation operations, including airline, MRO, business aviation or defense aviation environments, and awareness of maintenance planning, engineering, technical records or support processes in an aviation environment or similar would be beneficial.
The core activities include:
Leading the day-to-day activities of the EMX Support Team, including workload management, case ownership, prioritization, escalations and customer communication.
Providing oversight of customer support cases, incidents and service requests to ensure they are appropriately prioritized, documented and progressed in line with applicable support processes, service-level expectations and quality standards.
Managing customer escalations and complex support situations, coordinating with customers and internal teams to establish clear ownership, next steps and communication.
Ensuring clear, timely and professional customer communication through designated support tools, email and phone, while maintaining a high standard of customer service.
Collaborating with R&D, QA, DB, Consulting and other internal teams to progress customer issues, manage dependencies and remove blockers affecting case resolution.
Supporting and developing Support Team members through coaching, knowledge sharing, workload planning and skills and capability development.
Ensuring appropriate classification and routing of customer requests, including distinguishing standard support work from consulting, implementation, enhancement or product-development activities.
Supporting alignment and consistency of EMX support operations with global IFS standards, including case handling, prioritization, escalation, documentation, knowledge sharing and processes.
Driving continuous improvement by identifying process gaps, recurring issues and opportunities to improve support workflows, documentation, knowledge content and operational practices.
What We’re Offering
Salary Range: $85,000 - $95,000 base annualized
Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday
Medical, dental, & vision insurance
401K with Company contribution
Flexible spending accounts
Life insurance and disability benefits
Tuition assistance
Community involvement and volunteering events
Qualifications
Experience & Qualifications:
Experience in application support, technical support, service operations or a similar customer-facing support role.
Strong understanding of case ownership, incident handling, customer communication, escalation paths and SLA / KPI-driven service delivery.
Ability to investigate, reproduce and analyse customer issues, including application-level troubleshooting and evidence gathering.
Ability to understand customer operational impacts and translate business issues into technical support activities.
Clear and professional written communication, with strong discipline around case notes, customer updates and audit-ready documentation.
Ability to work effectively with Consulting, R&D, QA, DB and other internal stakeholder groups.
Experience with ServiceNow, Jira or similar work-tracking tools.
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About IFS

Software Development · 5,001-10,000 employees · headquartered in Linköping · founded 1983