Customer Service Representative

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic medicines. Our 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic medicines. Our 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. 

Diagnostic testing is a compass, providing information that helps in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of a range of health conditions.

Abbott’s life-changing tests and diagnostic tools give you accurate, timely information to better manage your health. We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Our location in Richmond, VA currently has an opportunity for a Client Service Representative.   The Client Services Team plays a critical role in shaping Abbott Rapid Diagnostics’ image with its customers, vendors, and business partners. Abbott RDX imparts the importance of that role, by selecting Client Services Representatives who are committed to knowledgeable, responsive, helpful, and courteous interactions with every caller. A Client Services Representative handles inbound customer service, and supply order calls, as well as responds to customer emails.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Demonstrated outstanding service orientation with clear verbal and written communications
• Willingness to answer phones, research questions, and document all customer interactions
• Flexibility to operate in several systems or platforms and balance tasks throughout the workday
• Ability to multitask in handling customers on various reporting platforms and email queues
• Fostering a customer service culture that strives for 100% customer satisfaction
• Understands productivity and quality objectives
• Strong computer skills on various computer systems
• Interpersonal and communications skills
• Positive and helpful attitude
• Punctuality and attendance
• Initiative and attention to detail
• Flexible work schedule (shifts run from 7 am CT through 7 pm CT)

 EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Required

• A high school diploma or GED required
• +3 years of Customer Service experience
• Strong verbal and written communication skills required
• Problem-solving skills
• Self-disciplined and Self-sufficient
• flexible work schedule (shifts run from 7 am CT through 7 pm CT)

Preferred

• A four-year degree from an accredited college or university is strongly preferred
• Call center experience strongly preferred
• Previous Supervisory experience preferred
• Worked in a metrics-driven environment

WHAT WE OFFER

At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:

• Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
• Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives, and retirement plans
• Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness, and occupational health programs
• Paid time off
• 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match
• The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and a history of being actively involved in local communities

Learn more about our benefits that add real value to your life to help you live fully:  http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides the growth and strength to build your future. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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