Director, Order Fulfillment & Customer Service – EMEA

Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $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, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivalled 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 and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.
Job title: Director, Order Fulfillment & Customer Service – EME
Band: 9
Location: Hungary
Reporting to: Sr Director, AIG Customer Care (GBS)
POSITION OVERVIEW:
Build and Lead the GBS customer care team members in a variety of strategic and day to day operational areas including, but not limited to, recruitment, workforce management, quality assurance and training. The Order Fulfillment & Customer Care Leader develops and directs the management of the Order Management and Customer Care function to drive customer satisfaction and improved operational efficiency.
The Order Management / customer care director will also partner with the Customer Service leadership teams to ensure there is tight alignment in customer care strategy and tactics with the goal of providing a great and consistent customer experience for Thermo Fisher customers.
MAJOR AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:
•An in-depth understanding of what makes for success in shared services - including how to create the right culture and environment. Serves as a brand champion and supports the Service Excellence Values.
•Contributes to the strategy for Customer Engagement and execution.
•Build, recruit, direct, coach, inspire all managers, supervisors, team leads and team members of the customer care team in the new center to achieve and support the vision and mission.
•Leads and directs employees to ensure balanced goals are achieved (Employee, Customer, Financial, and Regulatory).
•Develops operating plans, analyzes data and collaborates with the team to understand performance and develop improvement plans to close gaps.
•Lead for change initiatives throughout Budapest with focus on optimizing regional structure and growth initiatives.
•Identify revenue opportunity and partner with divisional sales leads on growth strategy.
•Lead for regional integration initiatives, responsible for building scalable solutions for future growth.
•Establish and implement performance standards and metrics, together with coaching and developing talent to deliver operational results, business unit objectives and meet Service Level Agreement (SLA) objectives.
•Evaluate and facilitate changes to business processes and workflow to deliver maximum productivity and effectiveness.
•Understand key market trends and implement improvement initiatives to build a world-class customer care function.
•Analyze and recommend cost-effective technology solutions in conjunction with the GBS team.
•Plan and communicate changes in processes, policies, practices or procedures in a clear, concise and expedient manner throughout the organization.
•Build the human resources capability within the Customer Care organization, optimizing organizational design and functional excellence.
•Handle escalations and complex customer situations as needed.
•Ensure that the development of business systems and available technology is utilized to maximum effectiveness.
•Benchmark customer care operations and offerings against competitors and industry leaders.
•Establishes and maintains key relationships with partners, Support Partners and Vendors, interacting with Management on all service- related activities and matters to capture impact to Customer Care and end customers through business decisions.
•Partner with information technology to deploy systems-related projects in the Customer Care organization.
•Collaborates with others and plays an integral role in the development and implementation of customer contact strategies that drive customer satisfaction and efficiency.
•Creates an environment of continuous improvement through analytics, feedback gathering, idea generation, benchmarking and training.
•Promotes and maintains a safe and high quality work environment for our employees.
•Supports ad hoc projects as directed to align with business objectives and goals.
REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
Bachelor’s degree required- preferably business related.
Strong technology and commercial orientation with experience in a shared services environment and broad proven experience in industry leading high volume customer service organizations with senior management experience (leading managers of people).
Proven track record of influencing and coaching senior leadership and executives on key matters.
Fluency of the English language (verbal and written).
Must be able to travel within region, with some international travel required.
Proven track record of leading and developing leaders in a Customer Care environment.
Experience developing and implementing customer contact strategies across multiple contact channels (human, technical and digital).
Proven track record of meeting balanced business objectives, employee and customer and financial.
Experience leading virtual teams.
Ability to plan work and work with a high degree of autonomy.
Experience of collaborative and building relationships with support partners.
Experience of managing budgets.
Experience leading large scale operational changes.
Experience developing and delivering presentations to key stakeholders and key leaders.
Experience researching and implementing best practices.
Experience developing and executing business continuity and emergency plans.
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.