Job description
Service Scheduler
12 Month Fixed-term
Salary: £34,525.56 + £6,210 Yearly bonus
Office-Based (Milton Keynes)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday–Friday, 09:00–17:30 with 1-hour lunch)
About the Role:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Service Scheduler to join a busy Customer Support Centre, delivering first-class technical coordination and customer service across a portfolio of diagnostic and laboratory instrumentation.
This role is highly customer-facing and focuses on providing a seamless support experience, coordinating field service activity and ensuring contractual service levels and KPIs are consistently achieved.
A critical success factor in this role is strong, hands-on experience with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, which is used as the central platform for fault logging, reporting, scheduling and case management.
Key Responsibilities:
Customer Support
• Handle inbound calls via dedicated customer service hotlines
• Manage email enquiries and support requests
• Accurately log instrument faults and service activity within Microsoft Dynamics CRM
• Coordinate and schedule:
• Emergency call-outs
• Planned preventative maintenance visits
• Urgent corrective actions and engineering changes
• Work collaboratively with field service engineers to meet customer expectations and response KPIs
Reporting & Data Management
• Update cases and maintain accurate service records within Microsoft Dynamics CRM
• Collate service data and generate KPI reports for account stakeholders
• Coordinate maintenance activity with partner suppliers and customers to maximise instrument uptime
Administration
• Escalate complex customer issues where required
• Maintain CRM records for newly installed equipment
• Support inventory management processes
Business Relationship Management
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with customers and service partners
• Monitor supplier performance against contractual service levels
Compliance & Training
• Participate in required training programmes
• Report regulatory concerns appropriately
• Follow health, safety and environmental procedures
Essential Skills & Experience:
• Strong working knowledge and practical experience using Microsoft Dynamics CRM (essential and critical)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a customer service, coordination, and scheduling environment working to KPIs
• Experience producing KPI or service performance reports
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong English language proficiency
• Experience handling escalations across multiple stakeholders
Desirable:
• Experience within diagnostics, laboratory or healthcare service environments
• Exposure to managed service contracts
Key Attributes:
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail
• Able to prioritise and manage multiple service requests
• Customer-focused with a proactive problem-solving approach
• Confident working with data, reporting, and CRM systems
• Strong team collaboration
Benefits:
Holiday Entitlement 28 days plus (8 days bank holiday), Bonus, Pension, Health Care Insurance (BUPA), Cash Plan (Simplyhealth), Income Protection Insurance, Educational Grant Scheme, Employee Assistance Program, Life Insurance 6 times the annual salary, Perkbox, Gym membership.