Abbott

Supervisor, Customer Support

Abbott$78K — $156K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of people leadership experience in customer service or contact center environments.
  • Strong understanding of customer service principles and quality assurance in operational settings.
  • Proven ability to manage competing priorities effectively in a fast-paced atmosphere.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills for conveying complex information clearly.
  • Strong analytical skills to identify data trends and derive actionable improvements.
  • Experience in cross-functional collaboration at all organizational levels.
  • High attention to detail in maintaining accurate documentation and outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a Customer Support team focused on Exception Handling workflows.
  • Oversee daily staffing, workload distribution, and adherence to service levels and quality standards.
  • Monitor workflows related to customer order exceptions and provide escalation support.
  • Conduct performance coaching and quality assessments to improve team effectiveness.
  • Utilize operational data to identify trends and recommend process improvements.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent execution of workflows and issue resolution.
  • Ensure compliance with policies, legal requirements, and quality standards.

Benefits

  • Support for professional development and career growth opportunities.
  • Collaborative and inclusive team environment focused on innovation and accountability.
  • Comprehensive onboarding and training for new hires and ongoing skill development.
  • Exposure to and collaboration with various functional teams for greater organizational insight.
  • Emphasis on maintaining high standards of customer experience, compliance, and operational discipline.
Full Job Description


JOB DESCRIPTION:

Position Overview

The Supervisor, Customer Support is responsible for leading a Customer Care team focused on Exception Handling. This role oversees day-to-day operations, supports timely resolution of order exceptions and related customer inquiries, and ensures team members deliver accurate, compassionate, and compliant support to internal and external customers.

In addition, the Supervisor provides coaching, performance management, workflow oversight, and cross-functional collaboration to help the Exception Handling team meet service, quality, productivity, and turnaround time expectations. This position requires strong people leadership, operational discipline, sound judgment, and the ability to identify opportunities for process improvement while maintaining a strong focus on customer experience, compliance, and quality.

Essential Duties

Include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Lead, coach, and develop Customer Support team members responsible for Exception Handling workflows.
  • Oversee daily staffing, workload distribution, queue management, and adherence to established service levels, turnaround times, productivity expectations, and quality standards.
  • Monitor and support workflows related to exception resolution, including customer contacts, order resolution, missing or incomplete information, duplicate orders or patients, interface errors, provider exception handling, and other exception-related work queues.
  • Provide real-time support and escalation guidance to specialists handling complex or sensitive customer situations.
  • Conduct regular performance coaching, quality reviews, one-on-one meetings, and development discussions to improve individual and team performance.
  • Use reporting, dashboards, quality monitoring, and operational data to identify trends, manage work-in-progress volumes, address performance gaps, and recommend process improvements.
  • Partner with training, quality, workforce management, operations, laboratory, and other cross-functional teams to support consistent execution of workflows and timely issue resolution.
  • Ensure team members accurately document customer interactions, order updates, escalations, and follow-up actions according to standard operating procedures.
  • Support onboarding, workflow training, change management, and adoption of new tools, systems, processes, and initiatives.
  • Maintain a strong focus on customer experience, compliance, accountability, quality, and operational discipline while creating an inclusive and supportive team environment.
  • Ensure compliance with company policies, quality procedures, privacy requirements, applicable healthcare regulations, and the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.
  • Apply strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making skills when navigating complex exception scenarios and customer situations.
  • Analyze operational data, identify trends, and translate insights into actionable improvements.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally and build effective working relationships at all levels of the organization.
  • Model accountability, integrity, innovation, teamwork, inclusion, and customer-focused behaviors.
  • Perform other duties and projects as assigned.


Minimum Qualifications
  • Demonstrated people leadership experience with the ability to coach, develop, motivate, and hold team members accountable.
  • Strong knowledge of customer service principles, contact center operations, performance monitoring, and quality assurance practices.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment while maintaining accuracy, professionalism, and sound judgment.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex information clearly and professionally.
  • Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making skills, particularly when navigating complex exception scenarios.
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze operational data, identify trends, and translate insights into actionable improvements.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and build effective working relationships at all levels of the organization.
  • High attention to detail and commitment to timely, accurate documentation and quality outcomes.
  • Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation.
  • Ability to model accountability, integrity, innovation, teamwork, inclusion, and customer-focused behaviors.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience leading teams in a customer service, contact center, healthcare, laboratory, or related operational environment.
  • Experience supporting exception handling, order resolution, customer escalations, or similar customer support workflows.
  • Experience working with workforce management, quality assurance, operational reporting, or performance management tools.
  • Experience with healthcare, laboratory, diagnostic, or other regulated environments.
  • Experience supporting process improvement, workflow optimization, change management, or implementation of new systems and processes.
  • Experience partnering with training, quality, operations, workforce management, laboratory, or other cross-functional teams.


The base pay for this position is
$78,000.00 - $156,000.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:
Customer Service

DIVISION:
ONCO Cancer Diagnostics

LOCATION:
United States > Madison : 1 Exact Lane

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:
Standard

TRAVEL:
No

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

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Size
113,000 employees
Market Cap
$189 billion
Industry
Net Income
$4.4 billion
Founded
1944
5 Year Trend
+15.6%
Revenue
$34.6 billion
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