Republic Services

Senior Manager Customer Support - Environmental Solutions

Republic Services$100K — $130K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in customer support, operations, or regulated environments
  • 4+ years in leadership roles managing multiple teams
  • Strong knowledge of hazardous/waste operations and regulatory compliance
  • Experience with enterprise system migrations
  • Proven ability to enhance service performance and quality
  • Exceptional communication skills for stakeholder management
  • Advanced data analysis and operational insight skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer support operations ensuring effective waste profiling and onboarding
  • Own service performance metrics and customer experience outcomes
  • Act as senior escalation point for complex regulatory and operational issues
  • Drive process standardization to minimize customer friction
  • Coach and develop team members for skill enhancement
  • Serve as liaison across departments to improve operational visibility
  • Support change management for new tools and operational models
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and actively manage associated risks

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Health care and dependent care spending accounts
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance and accidental death coverage
  • Employee and Family Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Employee discount programs
  • Retirement plan with company match
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Paid Time Off (PTO)
Full Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY: The Senior Manager Customer Support – Environmental Solutions provides regional leadership for Environmental Solutions Customer Support operations, ensuring high-quality, compliant, and scalable service delivery across complex, regulated workflows. The incumbent is accountable for operational performance, people leadership, cross-functional partnership, and execution of enterprise initiatives impacting profiling, onboarding, approvals, billing, and customer experience. The Senior Manager Customer Support – Environmental Solutions operates as a hands-on leader, balancing day-to-day execution with continuous improvement, while serving as a key escalation point and strategic partner to Sales, Operations, Compliance, IT, and Enterprise Programs.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Lead customer support operations across assigned regions, ensuring consistent execution of waste profiling, onboarding, approvals, and customer issue resolution.  

  • Own service performance, turnaround times, accuracy, and customer experience outcomes across high‑volume, highly regulated workflows. 

  • Act as the senior escalation point for complex customer, regulatory, and operational issues, ensuring timely resolution and clear ownership. 

  • Drive standardization of processes and handoffs to reduce variation, rework, and customer friction by identifying systemic issues, performance gaps, and recurring failure points; translate insights into actionable improvements. 

  • Coaches and develops a team of professionals to assist in their development and attainment of necessary skills to lift performance. Monitors staff performance and drives performance improvement initiatives and ensures that service levels meet or exceed agreed upon standards.

  • Serve as a primary Customer Support liaison to Sales, Operations, Compliance, Legal, Billing, and Enterprise Programs. 

  • Proactively align with field leadership and area stakeholders to improve visibility, trust, and operational outcomes. 

  • Lead change adoption for new tools, processes, and operating models, ensuring teams are trained, supported, and accountable. Track, report, and communicate key operational metrics, risks, and trends to leadership. 

  • Ensure Customer Support operations adhere to all applicable regulatory, audit, and compliance requirements (e.g., RCRA, DOT, TSCA) through active risk management by identifying control gaps, ownership ambiguity, or process breakdowns that could impact customers or the business. 

  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned or apparent.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, system change, and cross‑functional complexity. 

  • Strong working knowledge of Hazardous and/or regulated waste operations, waste profiling, onboarding, and regulatory considerations.

  • Experience leading regional or multi‑location teams. 

  • Exposure to enterprise system migrations or platform integrations. 

  • Proven track record of improving service performance, quality, and scalability through process and people leadership. 

  • Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills. 

  • Advanced proficiency in interpreting operational data and translating insights into action. 

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

  • 7 - 10 years of progressive experience in customer support, operations, or service delivery within a regulated or complex environment. 

  • 4+ years of people leadership experience managing leaders and/or multi‑layered teams. 

This role will be hybrid (4 days per week in office).

This position is eligible for relocation.

Rewarding Compensation and Benefits

Eligible employees can elect to participate in:
• Comprehensive medical benefits coverage, dental plans and vision coverage.
• Health care and dependent care spending accounts. 
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment insurance.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EAP).
• Employee discount programs.
• Retirement plan with a generous company match.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

• Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Benefits:

The statements used herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by an employee in this position, and are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required by an incumbent so classified.  Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the Company.

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Learn more about Republic Services
Size
1,045 employees
Market Cap
$40.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
$967.2 million
Founded
2011
5 Year Trend
+3.8%
Revenue
$10.1 billion
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