Customer Service Manager
Arlington Heights, WA - USA
Job Summary
Job Description Summary
The Customer Service Manager is responsible for leading and optimizing the delivery of high-quality customer service to end customers distributors and subsidiaries. This role oversees the full order-to-shipment process ensuring accuracy timeliness and compliance with company policies quality standards and systems.As a leader within the organization the Customer Service Manager manages and develops a customer service team acts as a strategic partner to Sales Supply Chain Finance and Logistics and serves as an escalation point for complex customer issues. The role is accountable for driving service excellence building strong customer and internal stakeholder relationships and leading continuous improvement initiatives that enhance customer satisfaction and supply chain performance
Job Description
Expected Outcomes
- Lead coach and develop a high performing customer service team setting clear objectives and performance expectations aligned with company standards.
- Create staffing models and schedules to support timesensitive radiopharmaceutical production and delivery windows including potential 24/7 or early-morning operations.
- Foster a customer-centric culture that consistently delivers excellent professional customer service to end customers distributors and subsidiaries.
- Act as an escalation point for complex or customer issues ensuring timely resolution and effective communication.
- Provide oversight and strategic direction for the receipt processing and management of customer orders through company systems ensuring accuracy compliance and efficiency from order entry through shipment.
- Ensure team adherence to established policies procedures quality standards and internal controls.
- Maintain accountability for the accuracy and completeness of customer orders quotations pricing and customer communications.
- Partner cross-functionally with Sales Supply Chain Finance Logistics Quality and other stakeholders to proactively identify and resolve service issues disputes and root causes.
- Build and maintain strong internal relationships to understand service impacts capacity constraints and customer requirements.
- Establish and nurture strategic trusted relationships with key customers distributors and commercial partners.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance service quality customer satisfaction and operational efficiency across the customer service and supply chain functions.
- Analyze service metrics customer feedback and performance data to identify trends risks and improvement opportunities.
- Initiate and drive process optimization and system enhancements in collaboration with business partners.
- Ensure the team maintains strong product knowledge and understanding of end to end supply chain processes to support customers accurately and confidently.
Critical Experience
- Demonstrated experience managing coaching and developing customer service or customer facing teams.
- Proven ability to lead through change set priorities and drive accountability in a fast paced regulated environment.
- Experience setting performance metrics evaluating results and implementing improvement plans.
- Experience in customer service customer operations or order management preferably within Healthcare Pharmaceutical and/or Life Sciences industries.
- Strong understanding of order to cash and supply chain processes in a regulated environment.
- Proven critical thinking and problem-solving skills with the ability to make sound timely decisions on complex issues.
- Experience analyzing data and KPIs to drive service improvements and support business decisions.
- Experience using systems such as SAP Smartsheet or similar CRM / ERP tools.
- High level of proficiency with MS Office applications (Word Excel PowerPoint).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across all organizational levels.
- Experience working cross functionally to achieve business and customer outcomes.
- Multilingual capability is preferable (Spanish desirable).
Additional Information
GE HealthCare offers a great work environment professional development challenging careers and competitive compensation. GE HealthCare is anEqual Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
GE HealthCare provides digital infrastructure, data analytics & decision support tools helps in diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of patients