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Sr. Escalation Manager

ThermoFisher Scientific

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Location
Hillsboro, OR
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Associate's degree

Job overview

The Global Escalation Manager leads customer escalations and coordinates resolution efforts with internal and external stakeholders. The role ensures issue ownership, action items, and communications are fulfilled, and drives escalation governance and customer updates. The ideal candidate has customer relationship, service management, or technical support management experience and may bring knowledge of semiconductor or complex equipment manufacturing technologies.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Relationship BuildingWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationNegotiationObjection HandlingCrisis ManagementCustomer Expectation ManagementCross-Functional CollaborationProblem SolvingEscalation ManagementInfluencingSemiconductor ManufacturingComplex Equipment Manufacturing

Qualifications

Associate DegreeBachelor's in Technical Field5 Years Customer Relationship, Service Management or Technical Support Manager Experience

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Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Job Description

Global Escalation Manager – Central Services

160074BR

When you join us at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll be part of a smart, driven team that shares your passion for exploration and discovery. With revenues of more than $24 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.

How you will make an impact:

The Global Escalation Manager is a critical customer service role that will lead customer escalations and coordinate resolution efforts with key stakeholders (internal and external) by working cross-functionally to ensure issue ownership, action items, and communications are fulfilled

What you will do:

  • Coordinate communications, meetings, and or conference calls between assigned customers and GTS/Field as required

  • Ensure customer escalations are resolved within agreed upon timelines

  • Drive and Facilitate weekly SLT escalation call’s to review hot customer issues including escalation status reporting, statistics, trending analysis, issue status activities and resources

  • Establish and maintain Customer Escalation processes and drive governance

  • Coordinate resources as required throughout Support organization to address the Action Plan for assigned escalations.

Skills Required:

  • Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with a variety of internal and external roles, from technical contributors to senior management

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  • Strong negotiation and objection handling skills

  • Ability to effectively handle crisis situations

  • Ability to manage customer expectations clearly, concisely, and in summary format

  • Understanding of cross-functional relationships and processes critical to driving issue resolution

How you will get here:

Education:

  • Associates Degree required. Bachelor’s Degree preferred in technical field

Experience

  • Minimum 5 years’ experience in Customer Relationship, Service Management or Technical Support Manager Role

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

  • Proactive and customer oriented person with extensive problem solving abilities

  • Shown ability to effectively handle escalations and high pressure situations

  • Excellent communication ability (both written and verbal) and influencing skills including the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a variety of audiences

  • The ideal candidate will understand relevant technologies such as semiconductor manufacturing and semiconductor or related technology, or complex equipment manufacturing

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 70,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

How this job compares

Set against the 33,893 open Customer Service jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Oregon median$50–64K/yr33 salary ranges
  • Oregon median$18–22/hr142 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 369 open Customer Service jobs in Oregon and 33,893 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience — more than three in four Customer Service postings that state a minimum ask for (median 1 year, across 8,837 postings).
Education
This posting asks for an associate degree; 1,547 of the 33,893 open Customer Service jobs (5%) ask for an associate degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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