Service Desk Agent Germany

We are looking for someone to join Tektronix Service Solution Organization (SSO) and work together with all other departments of the company to ensure we meet our targets, designed to provide excellent service for our customers and growth opportunities for our company.

As a member of the Fluke Service Desk German team, you will be based in Cologne, working with team mates based both in Cologne and Eindhoven (NL) and reporting to the Service Desk Manager based in Eindhoven.

You will be the connection between our partners and customers located in Germany and our logistics and technical teams based in Eindhoven (NL), Cologne (DE) and Norwich (UK). You will be the main point of contacts for orders and queries related to the repair and calibration of tools and will be responsible to ensure that our customers questions are answered, and their service requests fulfilled. Your main tasks will be:

• Handle customer questions coming in by phone or email.
• Work with our partners and customers located in Germany when their equipment needs repair or calibration, providing prices, creating return orders into our system and communicating references and shipment process.
• Monitor the turnaround time of our service orders and keep customers updated about the status of their tools, creating price quotations when needed.
• Manage in a timely and professional manner our customers’ complaints.
• Work with our finance department to ensure invoicing is correct and payments can be collected.
• Monitor the KPIs via Visual Management, identify deviations in time and apply Problem Solving to close gaps to target.
• Learn and follow all customer service procedures and policies.
• You will have a hybrid way of work, with minimum 3 days working from the office in Cologne, and occasionally will need to travel to the headquarters in Eindhoven (approximately twice per year).
• Intermediate vocational degree

Minimum Years of experience required:

• Minimum two years of work experience in Customer Support or equivalent experience in a similar industry and position where you have taken care of at least one of these tasks:
• Managing of incoming emails and phone calls
• Recording of administrative tasks in company system (e.g. Oracle, SAP, etc)
• Handling of customers’ complaints
• Basic technical knowledge of test and measurement products is a plus.

Required Skills and Competencies:

• Fluent English and German, both spoken and written. Any other European language is a bonus.
• Excellent digital literacy, in particular MS Outlook and Excel.
• Accurate in generating and processing data.
• Team player.
• Excellent communication skills and customer handling skills.

Desired Competencies (good to have):

• Attitude to problem solving.
• Comfortable with change.

Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.

We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating. Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.

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Tektronix is part of the Fortive Corporation which has more than $6 billion in annual revenues and holds well-known brands in leading positions in field instrumentation, transportation, sensing, product realization, automation and specialty, and franchise distribution. When you join Tektronix and Fortive, you will work in an extraordinary team, learning with and from great people, where diversity and inclusion is celebrated. You will have the opportunity to do work that makes a difference in the world. You will be trusted and empowered to contribute in meaningful ways with visibility and accountability. We are obsessed with our customers and have a commitment to transparency, unending learning and growth to accelerate progress and innovation. Join us for the excitement of a startup with a history of success! For You. For Us. For Growth.

Tektronix is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law. Candidates with less education/experience may be considered for other opportunities.