Field Service Technician - Abbott Vascular

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune

​Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. Our extensive portfolio includes drug-eluting stents, bare metal stents, guide wires, balloon dilatation catheters, imaging catheters and software, vessel closure devices and peripheral stents.

Preferred Locations: Seattle, WA or Portland, OR

The Field Service Technician is the primary account contact covering capital service and technical support. The position provides on-going proactive capital product support for assigned territory/accounts. The customer experience aspect of this role focuses on increasing customer loyalty and securing retention at assigned accounts.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Provides technical Level I and Level II phone and on-site support to proactively maintain product performance or resolve customer complaints for hardware, software, and disposable issues.

• Performs proactive service support activities to maintain system performance. Applies standard troubleshooting tools or concepts to identify the real issue and its root cause.

• Determines level of urgency of service support requests, develops recommendations and implement solutions that reflect customer and Abbott business need.

• Record accurate and timely documentation of customer complaints and the action taken to resolve the concern.

• Plan and prioritize customer visits and activities to do in each account.

• Coordinate order; delivery and billing of products and/or services in assigned accounts. Monitor inventory and replenish accordingly

• Support the sales team with monitoring and implementation of Service Contract Sales at assigned accounts.

• Partner with Sales Executives to develop account-specific strategy and execution throughout commercial cycle and participate in customer business reviews.

• Understand competitive landscape of assigned accounts or territory and leverage it to maximize business opportunities.

• Develop/preserve strong relationships to gain meaningful insights that will allow for value expansion opportunities.

• Prepare, schedule, and execute training events with customers to improve customer self-sufficiency by developing the customer’s ability to troubleshoot/repair hardware/software and increase knowledge of component replacement.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

• Associates Degree or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

• Minimum 2 years relevant experience with instrumentation utilized in a Cath Lab.

• Minimum 2 years experience interfacing with customers.

• Experience with capital equipment-engineering (preferred).

• Experience with Imaging/OCT (preferred).

• Experience with hospital/medical specific equipment and X-Ray equipment (preferred).

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* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at Abbott">www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews.

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