Transportation Support Specialist

As a Transportation Support Specialist at IDEXX, you will support Customer Service, Sales, Lab Operations, and Transportation Teams in a fastpaced, highly collaborative environment. You will monitor transportation vendor performance, respond to escalations, and play a critical role in ensuring timely sample movement and exceptional customer experiences.

You'll join an amazing, caring, supportive team known for its great energy and strong cooperation. This role offers flexibility, worklife balance, personal growth opportunities, and a culture that values empathy, professionalism, and continuous improvement.

This is a virtual, fulltime position with competitive benefits.

IDEXX reference laboratories is a global network united by a shared commitment to enhancing pet care where the true strength in our name is the people behind it. Our reference laboratories make it possible for our customers to discover more with our unrelenting commitment to innovation, personalized support, guidance, and expertise, while providing the most complete and advanced menu of diagnostic tests along with technology and tools.

Schedule: 2:30pm to 11pm ET weekdays with flexibility. Consistent schedule working weekdays with rotation weekend work shift. Employees working weekend shift will receive one weekday off. Shift may change due to operational needs.

In This Role You Will...

• Provide frontend customer service support, responding to inbound internal and external calls and placing outbound calls as needed.

• Manage customer questions, inquiries, escalations, credits, holds, and address changes.

• Act as a point of contact for customers, customer service, sales, lab operations, and transportation vendors.

• Serve as the direct vendor contact for realtime issue resolution.

• Monitor daily route coverage, completion status, lateroute alerts, and overnight/weekend route activity.

• Monitor daily line hauls, air shipments, and inbound FedEx/UPS shipments, ensuring timely sample receipt from remote markets.

• Communicate potential delays to internal and external customers.

• Manage delay notifications as they arise.

• Track and communicate airline schedule changes that may impact flights.

• Provide disaster recovery support during system outages to maintain service continuity.

• Understand and consistently follow applicable SOPs.

• Provide impromptu feedback to Supervisors regarding process changes, service failures, and customer-impacting concerns.

• Work heavily in customer support and case management systems.

• Use Service Cloud, Microsoft Office Suite, Teams, and Genesys Cloud (phone system).

• Perform other duties as assigned.

What You Need to Succeed

• Strong attention to detail and accuracy; consistently errorfree work.

• Outstanding customer service experience (5+ years), including experience diffusing difficult situations with empathy.

• Ability to stay professional under stress.

• Strong organizational skills and the ability to multitask effectively.

• Demonstrated ability to work independently, reliably, and with minimal supervision.

• High performer with dependability and accountability.

• Open to internal and external feedback; coachable and adaptable to change.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent computer skills with the ability to navigate multiple systems (Outlook, Service Cloud, Genesys Cloud, Microsoft Office, various software tools).

• Ability to use multiple software systems interchangeably with confidence.

• Customerfirst mindset aligned with IDEXX's purpose and guiding principles.

• Empathy, curiosity, effective communication, and a positive attitude.

• Reliable highspeed internet connection.

• A dedicated workspace that can accommodate 3 monitors.

• Ability to sit at a workstation for extended periods.

• Flexible availability - may include days, evenings, nights, weekends, and stormseason coverage.

• Ability to switch schedules when required to support overnight or weekend operations.

What you can expect from us:

• Pay rate of $24.75/hr (depending on skills and experience)

• Additional shift differential pay

• Opportunity for annual cash bonus

• Opportunity for performance based annual merit increase

• Health / Dental / Vision Benefits - Day One

• 5% matching 401(k)

• Generous PTO benefits

• Additional benefits including but not limited to pet insurance, mental health resources, volunteer paid days off, employee stock program, foundation donation matching, and much more!

Why IDEXX?

We're proud of the work we do, because our work matters. An innovation leader in every industry we serve, we follow our Purpose and Guiding Principles to help pet owners worldwide keep their companion animals healthy and happy, to ensure safe drinking water for billions, and to help farmers protect livestock and poultry from disease. We have customers in over 175 countries and a global workforce of over 10,000 talented people.

So, what does that mean for you? We enrich the livelihoods of our employees with a positive and respectful work culture that embraces challenges and encourages learning and discovery. At IDEXX, you will be supported by competitive compensation, incentives, and benefits while enjoying purposeful work that drives improvement.

Let's pursue what matters together.

IDEXX values a diverse workforce and workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

IDEXX is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal laws.

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