Manager, Product Stewardship Customer Assurance

Position Summary The Manager, Product Stewardship Customer Assurance (PSCA) leads Vantage's global customer response operation for product stewardship-related inquiries, serving as the central coordination point for customer requests involving regulatory, quality, technical service, product safety, and compliance documentation. This role reports to the Director of Global Product Stewardship & Regulatory Affairs.

The primary purpose of this role is to deliver a seamless and world-class customer experience by ensuring customer inquiries are appropriately routed, coordinated, and resolved through timely, accurate, and consistent responses. The Manager oversees the end-to-end CRM caseload management process, ensuring inquiries are prioritized, assigned, tracked, and closed in accordance with established service levels.

Leading a team of Product Stewardship Customer Assurance specialists, the Manager drives operational excellence in customer response management while coordinating integrated responses across Regulatory, Quality, Technical Service, Product Stewardship, R&D, Commercial, and Supply Chain functions. The role is accountable for ensuring customers receive complete and coordinated information, monitoring response performance, and continuously improving processes that enhance responsiveness, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

Position Scope This is a global manager-level role responsible for leading the Product Stewardship Customer Assurance function and managing the end-to-end customer response operation for product stewardship-related inquiries. The role includes direct team leadership, CRM caseload oversight, cross-functional response coordination, stakeholder engagement, performance tracking, and continuous improvement of customer assurance processes across regions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

Customer Response Operations Lead the global Product Stewardship Customer Assurance (PSCA) function for customer inquiries related to regulatory, quality, technical, product safety, and compliance matters.

Own the end-to-end customer response process, ensuring inquiries are efficiently routed, managed, and resolved from receipt through closure.

Ensure customers receive accurate, complete, and timely responses that meet defined service levels, expectations, and follow-up needs.

Serve as the escalation point for complex or urgent inquiries while driving a customer-centric operating model focused on responsiveness, accountability, and service excellence.

CRM Caseload Management Own the global CRM caseload for PSCA inquiries, ensuring cases are prioritized, assigned, tracked, and closed effectively.

Balance team workload to ensure efficient case progression, coverage, and achievement of response targets.

Monitor volumes, aging, response times, backlog, and service levels to ensure performance objectives are met.

Maintain CRM discipline, controls, and visibility into case status, priorities, workload distribution, timelines, documentation, and closure.

Cross-Functional Response Coordination Coordinate integrated customer responses by engaging subject matter experts across Regulatory, Product Stewardship, Technical Service, Quality, R&D, Commercial, Supply Chain, and other functions.

Drive timely information gathering, stakeholder alignment, and consistent responses that meet customer commitments.

Serve as the central coordination point between internal experts and customer-facing teams, removing barriers and ensuring follow-up through completion.

Team Leadership Lead, coach, and develop PSCA specialists responsible for customer inquiry management and documentation support.

Set team priorities, performance expectations, service standards, and capability-building plans.

Build a culture of ownership, responsiveness, collaboration, customer focus, and effective cross-functional coordination.

Performance Management & Continuous Improvement Establish and monitor KPIs for response and resolution times, SLA attainment, backlog, customer satisfaction, and case quality.

Analyze trends to improve responsiveness, workflow efficiency, resource utilization, and customer experience.

Lead initiatives to streamline processes, standardize responses, and scale service delivery.

Maintain dashboards and reporting that provide visibility into operational effectiveness and customer service outcomes.

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