Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)Environmental Conditions
OfficeJob Description
The Customer Care & Scheduling role is responsible for coordinating customer care and scheduling activities across the UK, Ireland, and the Nordics. The role ensures effective, timely, and customer-focused support, with strong attention to service quality, process compliance, data accuracy, and continuous improvement.
This position supports day-to-day operational activity, workload planning, and resource coordination, and works closely with internal stakeholders including Field Service, Sales, Finance, Logistics, Warehouse, Technical Support, Regulatory, Quality Systems, internal teams in GBS, and other business partners to support efficient and compliant operations.
Key ResponsibilitiesTeam Leadership- Provide day-to-day operational leadership and guidance to the team.
- Coach, develop, and support team members to achieve individual and team performance objectives.
- Monitor workload distribution and resource planning to ensure efficient customer support and scheduling execution.
- Foster a customer-focused, collaborative, and high-performance team culture.
- Ensure timely and accurate handling of customer inquiries, requests, orders, complaints, and scheduling activities.
- Monitor open work, service risks, and escalations, taking action to protect customer commitments.
- Coordinate scheduling priorities, service timing, and workload balancing across the region.
- Escalate critical customer issues when appropriate and ensure timely resolution.
- Communicate cross-functionally with internal stakeholders to support service delivery and operational alignment.
- Provide guidance to Sales and other business partners on scheduling feasibility, service timing, and customer impact.
- Support internal and external customer needs through effective coordination and communication.
- Maintain clear follow-up on actions, issues, and agreed next steps.
- Monitor and review key performance metrics for customer care and scheduling activities.
- Take ownership of quality, accuracy, and consistency across processes and data.
- Support local quality management processes and ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
- Oversee the accuracy and integrity of customer-related and scheduling data in ERP and CRM systems.
- Identify and drive opportunities to improve systems, processes, tools, and ways of working.
- Support local and regional initiatives affecting customer care, scheduling, and service delivery.
- Implement practical improvements that increase efficiency, accuracy, and customer experience.
- Promote standard work, process clarity, and continuous improvement across the team.
- Act as local lead for Customer Care systems and processes, including C4S.
- Support the local implementation and continuous improvement of C4S processes and related workflows.
- Coordinate with relevant process and system owners on process updates, releases, and improvements.
- Ensure correct and consistent application of customer care and scheduling processes.
- Train, coach, and develop team members to build capability, consistency, and confidence.
- Conduct regular 1:1s, development discussions, and performance reviews.
- Support onboarding and ongoing competence building.
- Support change management and adoption of new processes, tools, and ways of working.
- Secondary education or equivalent experience, with demonstrated supervisory and operational planning experience.
- Further relevant qualification desirable.
- Minimum 3 years of team leadership experience.
- Experience in customer care, customer service, order management, or scheduling preferred.
- Strong people leadership and coaching skills.
- Excellent stakeholder communication and collaboration.
- Strong planning, prioritisation, and problem-solving ability.
- Customer-focused mindset.
- Strong attention to detail and data accuracy.
- Ability to manage pressure and changing priorities.
- Continuous improvement mindset.
- Confidence working across systems and operational processes.
- Good knowledge of ERP/CRM systems such as SAP and C4S, or similar.
- Nordic language skills preferred.
- Good English communication skills, written and spoken.
- Team delivers reliable customer care and scheduling support across all countries in scope.
- Key metrics and service commitments are consistently met.
- Scheduling and customer care data is accurate and maintained to a high standard.
- Customers and stakeholders receive timely, clear, and professional support.
- Team capability and performance improve over time.
- Process improvements lead to better efficiency, quality, and customer experience.
Skills Required
- Secondary education or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated supervisory and operational planning experience
- Minimum 3 years of team leadership experience
- Experience in customer care, customer service, order management, or scheduling
- Strong people leadership and coaching skills
- Excellent stakeholder communication and collaboration
- Strong planning, prioritization, and problem-solving ability
- Strong attention to detail and data accuracy
- Ability to manage pressure and changing priorities
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Confidence working across systems and operational processes
- Good knowledge of ERP and CRM systems such as SAP and C4S, or similar
- Further relevant qualification
- Nordic language skills
- Good written and spoken English communication skills
Thermo Fisher Scientific Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Thermo Fisher Scientific and has not been reviewed or approved by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a strong company 401(k) match and an employee stock purchase plan that add meaningful long‑term value. Feedback suggests these features stand out among core financial benefits even when base pay feels average.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage offers multiple national medical options alongside dental and vision, with company‑paid life and disability coverage. This breadth is considered a solid foundation even if some costs may not be the lowest among peers.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and caregiver leave, backup care, adoption assistance, and specialized family resources are available. Feedback suggests these supports are a notable plus for colleagues managing family and caregiving needs.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Insights
What We Do
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, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity 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 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.
Why Work With Us
You will join a company which every colleague has the opportunity to create possibilities, for oneself, for our customers and patients. There is no more exciting place to be than at the forefront of solving problems which help improve lives around the world. As a company, we are committed to supporting your career aspirations and your journey.
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