Sr. Manager - Client Services

RR Donnelley•New York, NY

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for overseeing the delivery of exceptional services to clients, ensuring customer satisfaction, retention and growth. This role involves managing a team of client service professionals and managers, optimizing workflows, and providing strategic guidance to address external and internal needs, solve business problems, and drive successful outcomes. This role will also champion the execution of projects/initiatives that have an organization-wide impact, are highly visible to senior leadership and align with business strategies.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in relevant discipline required
Bachelors degree and at least 8 years of prior leadership and management experience with in-depth knowledge and experience with industry related issues required, or a Graduate degree and at least 6 years of prior leadership and management experience.
Ability to adapt messaging for different audiences, including Sr leaders, clients, and internal teams.
Strong understanding of how messaging impacts the organization, customers, and business outcomes.
Ability to create and deliver compelling presentations to influence decision-makers and stakeholders
Deep understanding of CRM systems, data analytics tools, and enterprise workflow solutions (e.g., Salesforce, Tableau, Google Workspace, MS Office Suite).
Ability to quickly learn new programs and functional areas, applying them to optimize team and business performance.
Capability to train, mentor, and develop team members in best practices, business tools, and technology solutions.
Demonstrated ability to analyze high-impact business problems, evaluate critical elements, and develop innovative solutions.
Strong understanding of how decisions impact operational efficiency, revenue growth, and client relationships.
Ability to evaluate, redesign, and implement more effective workflows and service models.
Ability to proactively identify challenges and implement solutions with minimal supervision.
Experience managing fast-paced, high-production team environments while maintaining service excellence.

Responsibilities

Ensure managers actively engage in the department’s processes by understanding client goals, aligning them with offered capabilities, and leading teams to develop and support campaigns and services that meet client needs.
Guide managers in effectively influencing stakeholders to adopt courses of action on critical, complex, or sensitive matters.
Ensure cross-functional collaboration and build trust with internal and external customers to drive success.
Proactively identifying and resolving highly complex and unique issues across multiple functional areas.
Direct managers to take a broad, strategic approach to implementing innovative solutions while safeguarding business interests and relationships.
Provide oversight and strategic direction in solution development, ensuring collaboration across departments and divisions to achieve the best outcomes.
Ensure smooth execution of solutions, including client positioning and negotiation as needed.
Lead and oversee a team through direct management of managers and employees to support the assigned vertical/region, ensuring workload balance to optimize resources and control costs.
Direct the development and execution of management and functional strategies through leadership oversight to drive revenue and profit growth.
Leverage knowledge of various business segments to support managers in leadership roles and strategic planning initiatives.
Lead through reporting managers to establish clear expectations, assess performance against job requirements and objectives, and ensure regular feedback is provided.
Guide managers in developing both leaders and individual contributors, implementing company policies, and leveraging reward tools to recognize high performers.
Oversee the timely completion and delivery of performance reviews, ensuring managers facilitate promotions, pay increases, disciplinary actions, and terminations as needed.
Provide strategic input into budget development and maintain oversight of budget execution.