Remote Care Supervisor

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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 will have access to:

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

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.

A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Alajuela location in the CRM Division. As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

As the Remote Care Supervisor, you’ll have the chance to lead a group of technical support agents who provide technical guidance and troubleshooting support on the use of Merlin.net remote care products to the medical community, patients, and various internal departments within the company.

This supervisory position must assure timely response and closed loop follow-up to clinicians, patients and company representatives by phone and/or email. Maintains staff and equipment to assure appropriate technical capabilities and monitor interactions to insure a high degree of quality, efficiency and effectiveness.

What You’ll Do

Responsible for hiring and retaining a diverse, highly qualified staff and for providing career coaching, growth, and personal development. Accountable for the staff development; critiques, instructs, mentors, evaluates, and coaches. Accountable for the performance of subordinates and work output of managed subcontractors. Maintain a safe work environment and a strong customer focus. Create an environment that consistently fosters employee understanding of quality and to train, facilitate and motivate all employees to actively participate in the process of continuous quality improvement

Identifies, tracks and characterizes new issues. Helps to establish appropriate messages to the field for issues; handles escalated calls, as needed. Collects and provides additional needed information on issues to product development teams for troubleshooting.

Provides interface between RCTS and other internal departments through meetings and feedback, including Change Control Board (CCB), issue reviews, operational discussions with shipping and customer service, literature reviews, marketing meetings and technical meetings.

On a 24-hour, “on call basis” (rotating between other department supervisors) follows outlined protocols to assist on-call agents with escalated customer calls.

Ensures that complaints are documented via Field Contact Reports (FCR’s) and forwarded to the Product Performance Group. Forwards remote monitoring system technical issues, anomalies, and engineering improvements by completing Remote Care Information Technology (RCIT) Service Desk requests (i.e., “tickets”) and/or Software Work Requests (SWR’s).

Contributes to the development of standardized department protocols for frequent duties performed by RCTS employees.

Ensures that all RCTS employees are trained and documentation meets the division quality standards. Identifies general team and specific individual needs for training and education to support both team goals and individual employee development.