Remote Customer Service Representative

Job Summary
As a remote Customer Service Representative, you will work from your home while holding yourself accountable for your success and proactively supporting our customers. Our organization is committed to growth, development, and supporting advances in the scientific community.
What we’re looking for:

• Education: High school diploma or GED required; Bachelor's degree a plus
• Experience: 1-3 years applicable experience in a customer relationship type role (sales, military, call center, etc.) Intermediate computer skills required; must be able to work in multiple systems concurrently while utilizing multiple monitors.
• Collaboration Tool: Salesforce, SAP, or other CRM tool experience preferred.

Who you are:

• Proactively interacts with outside sales force to ensure regular communication on pricing and other customer concerns. Provides high-level, quality service, closely aligned with sales, to enable sales growth.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Process, via computer, all customer requests. Utilize multiple and often complex systems, programs, and monitors in order to research information.
• Follow up with sales, suppliers, and customers on any outstanding issues.
• Makes recommendations on areas for process improvement.
• Owns the customer request and experience from initiation to final conclusion, including full follow up on open issues.
• Responsible for handling inbound sales and customer communication (calls/emails/click-to-chat) in the processing, expediting, and troubleshooting of customer orders.
• Maintains and attracts potential customers by handling inbound sales and customer communication (calls/emails/click-to-chat) relating to service status or challenges/concerns/issues within the network.
• Make decisions based on policies and past precedence, seeking guidance as necessary.
• Researches and resolves customer issues, expedites back orders, handles returns and special requests. Resolves product or service problems by clarifying the customer's complaint; determining the cause of the problem; selecting and explaining the best solution to solve the problem; expediting correction or adjustment; following up to ensure resolution.
• Looks for opportunities to provide solutions.
• Accountable to performance metrics such as schedule adherence, productivity standards, and quality standards.

How you will thrive and create an impact:
You would be joining a team with a strong culture of process improvement, recognition, and collaboration. We are pleased to offer our team a competitive compensation package and a full complement of employee benefits. We strive to offer benefits that will support our associates in being healthy, happy and successful. We offer a number of programs, resources and incentives designed to foster the total health and well-being of you and your family!
Interested?

• Training time is paid. Approximately 4 weeks of training.
• The job is 100% remote. You get to work out of the comfort of your home.
• We provide all equipment (computer, keyboard, mouse, two monitors).
• Hours are set. We don’t do any shift/hour bidding.

Why Avantor?
Dare to go further in your career. Join our global team of 14,000+ associates whose passion for discovery and determination to overcome challenges relentlessly advances life-changing science.  
The work we do changes people’s lives for the better. It brings new patient treatments and therapies to market, giving a cancer survivor the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle. It enables medical devices that help a little boy hear his mom’s voice for the first time. Outcomes such as these create unlimited opportunities for you to contribute your talents, learn new skills, and grow your career at Avantor.  
We are committed to helping you on this journey through our diverse, equitable and inclusive culture which includes learning experiences to support your career growth and success. At Avantor, dare to go further and see how the impact of your contributions set science in motion to create a better world. Apply today!
Disclaimer:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Avantor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
EEO Statement:
We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state/province, or local law.
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.
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