Founded in 1972, Skytron, LLC is a family owned, private company committed to providing the acute care market with innovative and flexible solutions for healthcare. We pride ourselves on the family-feel atmosphere you experience the moment you walk in the door. We know our overall success stems from investing in our employees and their efforts. We continuously strive to provide opportunities for employees to learn, grow, and thrive!
Skytron provides a competitive and comprehensive benefits program that helps employees and their families lead healthy, productive, and balanced lives. Our benefits program includes, comprehensive medical and dental insurance, 401(k) retirement plan with a company match, a profit sharing retirement plan, 10 paid holidays, vacation and personal time off, education reimbursement, a wellness program and company gym.
Summary: The National Service Director is responsible for Regional Field Service Technicians, Field Service Technicians, Service Customer Support Representatives, and Field Service Operations selling service as a product. This role supports the organization’s goals of providing a customer portfolio featuring a total product cost management solution and supporting the Skytron One initiative. The National Service Director works with the VP of Regulatory & Technical Services and Corporate Accounts team to align the sales and service needs in an efficient and strategic way. This position will be supported by Skytron’s Technical Service Center at our corporate headquarters. The individual must possess solid technical understanding to support the operations group, sales groups, initiate contact with key account customers and review of Skytron’s 3rd party service providers.
Essential Functions
- Interacts with Key Independent Delivery Network and Group Purchasing Organization customers to promote Skytron’s Single Point of Contact.
- Interacts with customers on a technical level and assists when issues arise that need escalation. Works with customer groups to ensure all service and customer needs are met.
- Demonstrates service revenue growth by using KPIs to help exceed company service sales and operation goals.
- Improves the operational systems, processes and policies to support organization’s mission.
- Prepares weekly and monthly service reports for management regarding utilization and quality of service work.
- Develops and implements procedures and guidelines to ensure that customer repair orders, installation or preventative maintenance visits are completed in a professional and timely manner, ensuring solid profit margins.
- Reviews performance data to measure productivity and goal achievement of the field group and 3rd party service providers, determining training needs and areas for program improvement.
- Manages and increases the effectiveness and efficiency of internal support services (Dispatch and Customer Service), through improvements to each function as well as coordination and communication between support and business functions.
- Plays a significant role in long term planning, including initiatives geared towards operational excellence.
- Drives initiatives within the management team and organization that contribute to long term operational excellence.
- Establishes and provides goals and objectives to the operations group to meet current and future service needs.
- Participates in and evaluates the need for direct field service support in existing and emerging service areas.
- Works effectively in a team environment to monitor, log, resolve and escalate issues with installations and service of equipment.
Competencies
- Coaching Others: Coaches and instructs others on specific work activities and holds employees/distributors accountable. Manages people development and encourages performance through motivation and feedback. Addresses performance issues and coaches on behavioral challenges.
- Customer Focus:Gives customers' internal/external needs priority and responds quickly to customer concerns. Demonstrates a desire to assist others, promotes positive behavior to internal/external customers. Eliminates systems/bureaucratic barriers to deliver exceptional service.
- Decision Making: Bases decisions on verified information, business acumen and informed intuition. Collaborates with secondary resources to devise solutions and decisions. Communicates regularly both verbally and in writing, decisions rationale and implementation plans.
- Managerial Focus: Hands on in the work and workflow, keeps other departments/people informed of progress. Provides clarity around direction and priorities, commits to group decisions and follows policies, procedures and protocols. Involves employees in planning, problem solving and decision making on matters that affect team performance and company objectives.
- Results Focused: Monitors short and long term results and desired impacts. Works and guides people and processes to be accountable to achieve company objectives. Focuses on collective outcomes and tangible group goals and minimize individualistic behavior.
Education/Experience
- Associate degree required. Bachelor’s degree preferred or five to seven years related experience managing off-site employees.
- Strong customer focus in every aspect of the job, including the ability to work directly with key customers in a consultative and technical capacity.
Technical Knowledge
- Strong mechanical and analytical skills.
Skills
- Strong managerial skills. Ability to effectively prioritize workload. Ability to think strategically and tactically. Resourceful, innovative and creative. Excellent people manager, open to direction and collaborative work style.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.