Hybrid Principal Customer Service Specialist

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About the role

  • Lead Principal Customer Service Specialist driving operational excellence in customer care processes across regions at Medtronic. Ensure compliance and foster a culture of caring within the team.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure compliance and operational alignment through Customer Care documentation: Review, update, and standardize QMS documents to reflect enterprise requirements, organizational updates, and new product or process changes.
  • Drive operational excellence in Customer Care processes and system workflows: Identify inefficiencies, facilitate improvement workshops, implement actionable enhancements, and ensure consistent, compliant, and high-quality customer experiences across regions.
  • Enable high-quality knowledge and insights: Collaborate with the Knowledge & Change Management Principal to ensure timely, accurate, and non-redundant information is available on digital platforms, supporting consistent execution of Customer Care processes.
  • Harmonize cross-regional processes: Partner with EMEA Service & Repair teams and Italian stakeholders to test, validate, and align processes, ensuring best practices, smooth adoption, and successful rollouts across countries.
  • Drive data-informed decisions and CAPA initiatives: Leverage control tower dashboards to monitor KPIs, identify trends, lead root cause analyses, manage OFI/ CAPAs, and resolve customer service/product complaints to improve performance and customer satisfaction.
  • Lead high-impact projects and foster a patient-first culture: Design and implement initiatives using insights from customer feedback and data analysis to prioritize patient needs, deliver actionable improvements, and mentor team members to build capabilities and reinforce a culture of caring.
  • Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory and quality requirements during the fulfillment of customer requests, maintaining audit readiness and supporting documentation as required.
  • Might directly manage and execute UAT, intake, assessment, and resolution of customer requests, ensuring all tasks are completed within established service timelines.
  • Collaborate on training and performance insights: Work closely with the Training, Knowledge & Change Management Principal to provide Customer Care Representatives with targeted training and actionable insights derived from quality checks, dashboards, and management review, closing gaps and improving outcomes.

Requirements

  • A background of 8+ years in Customer Service or Quality/Process Improvement is ideal, though candidates with a bachelor’s degree and 4+ years, or equivalent experience totaling 8+ years, will also be considered.
  • Proficient in English: Advance English (C1 level or above), with the ability to communicate confidently and effectively in professional environment.
  • Accelerator of process innovation: Proven resolutive mindset with the ability to accelerate process innovation by analyzing complex challenges, engaging stakeholders, distilling core issues, and transforming problems into actionable knowledge that elevates S&R Customer Care.
  • Change Enablement & Continuous Improvement: Strong analytical skills to support system and process transformations, simplify complexity, and drive sustainable operational excellence, while effectively engaging stakeholders at all organizational levels to support adoption.
  • Coaching & Development: Experience leading projects and delivering high-quality, on-time deliverables; proven ability to guide, review, and delegate work to specialist or team members while providing constructive, personalized feedback and mentoring others.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Demonstrated experience working across teams and functions, building trust and alignment with Key Users, Subject Matter Experts, and leadership.
  • Customer & Caring Mindset: Strong passion for customer and patient experience, quality, and service excellence, with a commitment to foster a culture of caring, inclusion, and collaboration.
  • Experience in Customer Care is highly valued.
  • Familiarity or mastery in tools such as ServiceNow, Sales Force and SAP is a strong advantage, especially when paired with a process-oriented mindset.
  • A continuous improvement approach is highly appreciated, and certifications such as Lean Six Sigma are considered a plus.

Benefits

  • A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values.
  • We recognize their contributions.
  • They share in the success they help to create.
  • We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Job title

Principal Customer Service Specialist

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

€60,800 - €91,200 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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