Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

When you're part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment, or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you'll be supported in achieving your career goals. Our staff members are committed to making a difference in our organization, for our client partners and the patients we serve. We seek individuals with proven competencies and strong character to help lead our organization now and into the future.

Discover Impactful Work:

All of our employees share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement. Our result to grow year after year is driven by our ability to attract, develop and retain world-class people who will thrive in our environment and share in our desire to improve people by enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

• Lead and coach Technical Applications Support Scientists to acquire the highest individual and team performance, career development, and employee involvement.
• Lead the Support activities across the team to achieve customer satisfaction.
• Drive growth of the business to meet revenue targets.
• Be a leader to the team, inspire, coach and empower your team to achieve excellence in your business and customer satisfaction scores.
• Develop, share and implement the long-term vision and strategy of the Services and Support Team.
• Supervise workload and handle schedules to meet goals and objectives and share innovative ideas for optimizing resources.
• Report on actual performance relative to goals and provide variance analysis and revised projections.
• Ensure that suitable metrics are developed and supervised for the performance of the Support Team.
• Ensure that an effective communication is in place for the staff to be aware of relevant issues within the function and the company as a whole.
• Supervise and resolve customer difficulties, including customer complaints.
• In depth understanding of standard operating procedures and developing methods for ensuring compliance and accountability.
• Lead project(s) through to successful implementation.
• Help transform the customer experience via the implementation of new support tools and processes.
• Lead the Technical Support activities to achieve optimized customer satisfaction, grow service revenue, and maintain a high level of employee satisfaction. Employ practical process improvement to drive business excellence and productivity. Develop team members to their fullest potential. Actively work to drive growth and stimulate new business.
• Work closely with business partners
• Recruiting of new staff, as required.
• Retaining and developing existing talent within the organization.
• Establishing Annual Priorities & Goals for your team and the business.
• Yearly review of talent and development of the greater Services and Support team
• Training plan is developed, and team is held accountable to achieve.
• Supervise Support demand, ensuring right balance of headcount.
• Actively seek and develop process improvements which increase our ability to provide service and support, meet revenue targets, and improve customer satisfaction.
• Establish and maintain relationships with international company contacts to facilitate communications and guide assistance when required.
• Participate as an active member of the Services and Support, and Commercial Operations organizations.
• Liaise with all other functional groups in the company to ensure a smooth and efficient interface between staff and the rest of the organization.

• BA/BS or equivalent years of experience required, advanced degree preferred in life science subject area
• Strong numerical reasoning and scientific proficiency

• 5+ years of proven track record in a similar field with 0-5 years of leadership experience.
• Marketplace/Scientific knowledge - knows Customers' environment in Research, Clinical and/or Diagnostics settings across a wide range of scientific workflow (preferred)
• Successful candidate works in the assigned office.
• Specific knowledge of LSG instrumentation and applications (preferred)
• Technical Support and/or Customer-Facing experience (preferred)

• Able to tackle practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Capable of working independently; self-motivated and proactive
• Extensive experience using personal computers and all Microsoft Office applications.
• Demonstrates clear and concise communications and is capable of interacting with a diverse population of internal and external contacts.
• Ability to partner optimally as part of a team to tackle problems, negotiate solutions and arrive at a consensus.
• Customer-centric and keenly aware of markets, trends and competitors
• Tenacious, conclusive, forward-thinking and quick, able to adapt from one situation to another quickly
• Anticipates needs and problems while crafting solutions
• Demonstrates a sense of urgency, contagious modesty and a "can do" demeanor
• Curious, inquisitive, innovative, never satisfied with the status quo
• Greets challenge and change as opportunity
• Has courage and confidence to take risks and learn from mistakes
• Encourages, motivates and collaborates not only within the Services and Support Organization
• Stretches across borders, breaks silos and builds effective partnerships with customers and colleagues
• Accept and demonstrates diversity of culture and thought
• Some travel could be expected

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees' Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount