Thermo Fisher Scientific Hiring for Supervisor, Customer Service at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

About Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, analyzing challenges, increasing efficiency in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.

About Customer Support Center

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, we are committed to being a Product Leadership company that builds innovative solutions across the spectrum of our customers’ needs. Our customer service and support are essential to enabling an outstanding customer experience. Our Customer Support Center organization is instrumental in these efforts and their seamless alignment across geographies and commercial functions is essential to our success.

The Bangalore Customer Support Center capability is a well-established team, which supports the North America, EMEA & APJ Order Management and other critical back office jobs with three shifts working over a 24-hour window/day, together processing over 60,000 requests each month. These three teams are truly pivotal to delivering on our promises of quality, innovation and enhance the success of our business in India and across the world.

Job Title: Supervisor Customer Service

Reports To: Manager, Customer Service,

Location: Bangalore

Purpose of the role

As a Supervisor, you will provide direct floor and personnel leadership to Customer Care Team Leaders. This is a leadership position in a fast-paced inbound customer support center. You will handle customer care issues either through direct personal action or referral to the proper individual/department. Coordinate site resources for the resolution of system related problems and provide specific feedback to other departments to aid in the identification and resolution of all open issues. This responsibility includes maximising both on and off-site resources as vital. You will also partner on the development of departmental guidelines and training material and lead implementation as vital.

Responsibilities:
Establish trust and maintain positive relationship, communicate effectively, partner with global peer groups to provide a better customer experience.

Bi-Weekly/Monthly Partner meetings to report metrics and process stability.

Evaluate appropriate staffing v/s business volume and explore opportunities to create capacity.

Evaluate and decide personnel issues such as requests for time-off, scheduling issues and deployment of work.

Act with Integrity and provide on the job guidance, motivation and coaching to Team leads, help drive their metrics to meet the organizational goals.

Supervise employee productivity and provide constructive feedback and coaching.

Work effectively with the Manager to create and implement career development plans for Team.

Recommend and administer input for annual reviews, recognition, and disciplinary action.

Interpret daily workload and coordinate various departments to fulfill order progression requirements.

Evaluate situations that impact operations and decide level of support and response required.

Respond to customer feedback (complaints), establish root cause and engage multiple departments to initiate and implement corrective action.

Training & coaching all CCRs in line with all policies and procedures. Conducts monthly customer care audits

Supports the manager & plans/engages in activities to ensure an enhanced customer experience. This includes but is not limited to projects and tasks to enhance the ordering process, improve alignment with customer service

Develops the job performance standards and goals for all CCRs to achieve the organization’s customer care and retention goals and assist manager in reaching revenue objectives of their region.

Assist leads/manager in the recruitment and hiring of the most qualified applicants to meet the needs of the Customer Care team.

Assists manager/leads in the development and implementation of ‘standard methodology’ processes across the organization to ensure efficiency resulting in reduced costs and improved customer service.

Develops a training curriculum and personal development plan for all staff. Conducts training as required achieving goals and service standards.

Establishes and helps manager to maintain timely and thorough reporting to the Customer Care Lead and on all customer care management facets of the organization.

Any other tasks as assigned from time to time.

Quality objectives:
Participates optimally in quality improvement teams and promotes co-operative effort between all departments and internal customers.

Reports all quality issues to Supervisor / Manager as soon as possible.

Adopt PPI and involve in team driven actions to help improvements. Act independently to resolve methods and procedures

Anticipate problems or needed process improvements and generate ideas, follow up for action and results.

Education:
Bachelor’s Degree

10+ years of successful Customer Care experience and proven informal leadership opportunities.

Experience in order processing

Solid understanding of Customer Care order entry, Quality and Workforce Management systems. Oracle, SAP, Siebel, Baan and other platforms

Extensive knowledge of personal computer applications such as Microsoft Office including, Visio, Excel, Macros and Power-Point.