Customer Service Manager

Thomas Scientific

$80K — $95K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Communications, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years experience in customer experience, account management, or customer success, preferably in distribution, B2B, or scientific/industrial supply.
  • Proven experience managing relationships with large, strategic, or enterprise-level accounts.
  • Strong analytical skills with ability to work with CRM, order management, and support ticketing data to identify trends.
  • Excellent communication skills and executive presence to effectively engage with senior leadership and key customers.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional projects without direct authority.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the CX owner for a portfolio of strategic/key accounts ensuring their experience is proactive and frictionless.
  • Build and maintain strategic account experience plans, including service level commitments and success metrics.
  • Act as an executive point of contact for CX-related issues and partner with Sales leadership on renewal and growth conversations.
  • Analyze customer feedback and support data to identify systemic pain points affecting strategic accounts.
  • Translate customer insights into actionable recommendations for Operations, Product, and IT teams.
  • Design and implement proactive service models for strategic customers; lead initiatives to improve self-service tools and communication.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure strategic account needs are represented in broader CX initiatives.

Benefits

  • Medical/Dental/Vision/401k matching
  • Paid Time Off (PTO)
Full Job Description
Hybrid - In office Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday

Position Summary

The Customer Experience Manager - Strategic is responsible for elevating the end-to-end customer journey for Thomas Scientific's most important and highest-value accounts. This role owns the strategic relationship between CX operations and key stakeholders - identifying friction points, designing proactive service models, and partnering cross-functionally with Sales, & Operations to ensure strategic customers receive consistently exceptional experience. This is a senior individual contributor or team-lead role focused on strategy, process design, and executive-level relationship management, rather than day-to-day ticket handling.Key Responsibilities
Strategic Account Experience
  • Serve as the CX owner for a portfolio of strategic/key accounts, ensuring their experience across ordering, fulfillment, support, and account management is proactive and frictionless.
  • Build and maintain strategic account experience plans, including service level commitments, escalation protocols, and success metrics.
  • Act as an executive point of contact for CX-related issues on strategic accounts, partnering with Sales leadership on renewal and growth conversations.
Voice of the Customer & Insights
  • Analyze customer feedback, NPS/CSAT data, support tickets, and order/fulfillment data to identify systemic pain points affecting strategic accounts.
  • Translate customer insights into actionable recommendations for Operations, Product, and IT teams.
  • Present regular CX health reports and strategic account risk/opportunity analysis to leadership.
Process & Program Design
  • Design and implement proactive service models (e.g., dedicated support tiers, account health scorecards, early-warning escalation triggers) for strategic customers.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve self-service tools, order accuracy, and communication cadence for strategic customers.
Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, IT, and Operations to ensure strategic account needs are represented in broader CX and business initiatives.
  • Champion a customer-first culture, mentoring frontline CX teams on best practices for handling high-value/high-complexity accounts.
  • Manage escalations that require cross-departmental coordination, driving issues to resolution with urgency and clear communication.
Qualifications
Required
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Communications, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in customer experience, account management, or customer success, ideally in distribution, B2B, or scientific/industrial supply industries.
  • Demonstrated experience managing relationships with large, strategic, or enterprise-level accounts.
  • Strong analytical skills; comfortable working with CRM, order management, and support ticketing data to identify trends.
  • Excellent communication and executive presence; able to represent CX priorities to senior leadership and key customers.
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects without direct authority.
Preferred
  • Experience in laboratory, life sciences, chemical distribution, or scientific supply industries.
  • Familiarity with CRM platforms (e.g., Salesforce), ERP/order management systems, and CX analytics tools.
  • Background in process improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, or similar).


Benefits
Medical/Dental/Vision/401k matching
PTO
Salary

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