Customer Service Advisor - #1801905
Bio-Techne
Date: 6 hours ago
City: Bristol
Contract type: Full time
Work schedule: Full day

By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.
Reports To: Customer Services Manager
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week
Position Summary
The Customer Services team at Bio-Techne play a key role in delivering exceptional customer service to the business key stakeholders, from initial point of contact and placing of orders, through to the aftersales service, ensuring the customer experience is exceptional throughout the entire process. This team role requires individuals who are highly motivated, are passionate about customer service, and encourage engagement with the customer.
Essential Functions
The team
Empowerment
Set clear goals to help ensure continuous improvement of support
Enjoy working as part of a team to deliver results, learn and share knowledge
Passion
Provide guidance and support to other team members and departments
Excellent attention to detail, time management and process management
Innovation
Outstanding problem solving and interpersonal skills
Self-directed and creative
Contribute to the success of the team and by challenging and offer suggestions/ideas and feedback
Collaboration
Work closely with all departments within EMEA to ensure superior customer support
Work closely with peers to ensure consistency of service across all areas
Bio-Techne is committed to product quality, customer satisfaction, continued improvement, minimising environmental impacts and conserving natural resources. Environmental and quality management is an integral core value and vital part of the Bio-Techne culture.
Why Join Bio-Techne
To protect the interests of all, Bio-Techne will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than a candidate application. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Bio-Techne will be considered Bio-Techne property.
Reports To: Customer Services Manager
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week
Position Summary
The Customer Services team at Bio-Techne play a key role in delivering exceptional customer service to the business key stakeholders, from initial point of contact and placing of orders, through to the aftersales service, ensuring the customer experience is exceptional throughout the entire process. This team role requires individuals who are highly motivated, are passionate about customer service, and encourage engagement with the customer.
Essential Functions
The team
- Be the point of contact for incoming sales enquiries by telephone, e-mail and “live-chat”
- Processing of sales orders received by email, telephone order, postal orders, and e-commerce in an accurate and efficient manner to ensure minimal errors occur.
- Raising customer quotations, proformas and coordinate stock returns where required
- Providing an excellent Customer Service support by working closely with other internal departments – Sales, Accounts, Despatch, Technical Service, Marketing, etc.
- Effectively provide the customer with answers for/of any order queries or offering solutions to the queries.
- Manage non-technical complaints that are received.
- Manage backorder process to ensure customers are kept informed of any date changes.
- Manage new account process and documentation required.
- Ensure customer database is regularly updated and all information logged.
- Ensure the after sales care and order follow up is carried out to deliver a great customer experience from start to finish of an order.
- Gain a basic level of key product knowledge.
- Work with internal sales teams to maximize communication and improve efficiencies within teams to ensure high levels of customer service.
- Work as part of a team to achieve the overall goals but have the motivation to be self-driven to deliver exceptional customer service at every point of customer and interdepartmental contact.
- Support Bio-Techne ethos of a great global offering of a quality portfolio of products and services.
- Drive best practice and ensure maximum productivity & utilisation
- General Education exam passes (or equivalent) in English and Maths
- Experience of working in a customer focused environment
- Fluent written and spoken English is essential.
- Possess excellent IT skills, including experience of working with ERP/CRM platforms
- A commitment to total customer satisfaction
- Conscientious, articulate, and possesses excellent presentation and teaching skills
- A commitment to total customer satisfaction
- Strong organisational and administration skills
- German Language skill
- Working knowledge of Microsoft D365 and or Salesforce desirable but not essential
- Ability to demonstrate a passion for customer service
- Excellent telephone manner
- Exceptional attention to detail, time management, and organizational skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to perform a wide variety of tasks and multi-task efficiently
- Professional demeanour
- Ability to remain calm under pressure
- Ability to handle complaints and difficult situations
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
Empowerment
Set clear goals to help ensure continuous improvement of support
Enjoy working as part of a team to deliver results, learn and share knowledge
Passion
Provide guidance and support to other team members and departments
Excellent attention to detail, time management and process management
Innovation
Outstanding problem solving and interpersonal skills
Self-directed and creative
Contribute to the success of the team and by challenging and offer suggestions/ideas and feedback
Collaboration
Work closely with all departments within EMEA to ensure superior customer support
Work closely with peers to ensure consistency of service across all areas
Bio-Techne is committed to product quality, customer satisfaction, continued improvement, minimising environmental impacts and conserving natural resources. Environmental and quality management is an integral core value and vital part of the Bio-Techne culture.
Why Join Bio-Techne
- We offer competitive wages along with extensive benefits for employees and their families.
- We invest in our employees’ financial futures through retirement programs and an employee stock purchase plan.
- We help our employees develop their careers through mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, internship programs, and more.
- We offer an international and diverse working environment, enriched by employee resource groups; volunteer and charity events; and employee events that build a culture of caring and belonging.
- We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.
To protect the interests of all, Bio-Techne will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than a candidate application. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Bio-Techne will be considered Bio-Techne property.
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