Customer Care Specialist - Eindhoven (German Speaking)

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Customer Care Specialist, Eindhoven (German Speaking)

Closing date - Tuesday 20th January 2026

As a Customer Care Specialist at Illumina you will liaise directly with customers within your territory to support with orders of instruments as well as large consumable orders, right through to working with them to plan installation. You will support with customer enquiries and provide the best suitable solution to their needs.

This is an onsite position in Eindhoven with the opportunity for hybrid working up to three days per week. The suitable candidate will have previous office experience with excellent commercial skills and the ability to build and maintain strong customer relationships. It is essential for the role that you have Fluent English language skills, in addition to fluent/native German language skills also being essential.

Responsibilities:

• Process orders (>350K) in an efficient and timely manner, according to the customer specifications and commercial terms and conditions. (Includes consumables & instrument orders, order call offs, conversions and adjustments in ship schedules, RMA’s).

• Assist in responding to customer inquiries by email & phone and provide the best suitable solution to their needs. (e.g., order verification, updates on delivery dates, product availability and pricing).

• Manage instrument dispatch and coordinate delivery

• Build productive collaborative working relationships with Technical Support, Quote, Finance, Sales, logistics, Field Service & Support to deliver world class experience to our customers.

• Perform order backlog management and exception handling (credit hold, delivery exception) to ensure timely delivery

• Respond, investigate, and provide solution to Business Issues (complaints) raised by the customer.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Preferred Requirements:

• Previous office based experience working within a customer support role is essential

• Excellent commercial skills

• Ability to understand and/or deploy key internal business processes

• Understand key customer engagement processes

• Able to utilise commercial tools (e.g., CRM, SAP, Quickbase, Tableau)     

• Navigate internal & external partners

• Fluent English language with the addition of fluent/native German language is essential

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