Senior Manager Customer Support - Environmental Solutions

About the role

The Senior Manager Customer Support – Environmental Solutions provides regional leadership for Environmental Solutions Customer Support operations, ensuring high-quality, compliant, and scalable service delivery across complex, regulated workflows. The incumbent is accountable for operational performance, people leadership, cross-functional partnership, and execution of enterprise initiatives impacting profiling, onboarding, approvals, billing, and customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer support operations across assigned regions, ensuring consistent execution of waste profiling, onboarding, approvals, and customer issue resolution.
• Own service performance, turnaround times, accuracy, and customer experience outcomes across high-volume, highly regulated workflows.
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex customer, regulatory, and operational issues, ensuring timely resolution and clear ownership.
• Drive standardization of processes and handoffs to reduce variation, rework, and customer friction by identifying systemic issues, performance gaps, and recurring failure points; translate insights into actionable improvements.
• Coaches and develops a team of professionals to assist in their development and attainment of necessary skills to lift performance.
• Maintains staff performance and drives performance improvement initiatives and ensures that service levels meet or exceed agreed upon standards.
• Serves as a primary Customer Support liaison to Sales, Operations, Compliance, Legal, Billing, and Enterprise Programs.
• Proactively aligns with field leadership and area stakeholders to improve visibility, trust, and operational outcomes.
• Leads change adoption for new tools, processes, and operating models, ensuring teams are trained, supported, and accountable.
• Tracks, reports, and communicates key operational metrics, risks, and trends to leadership.
• Ensures Customer Support operations adhere to all applicable regulatory, audit, and compliance requirements (e.g., RCRA, DOT, TSCA) through active risk management by identifying control gaps, ownership ambiguity, or process breakdowns that could impact customers or the business.

  Qualifications

  • Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, system change, and cross-functional complexity.
  • Strong working knowledge of Hazardous and/or regulated waste operations, waste profiling, onboarding, and regulatory considerations.
  • Experience leading regional or multi-location teams.
  • Exposure to enterprise system migrations or platform integrations.
  • Pioneered track record of improving service performance, quality, and scalability through process and people leadership.
  • Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Advanced proficiency in interpreting operational data and translating insights into action.

  Requirements

  • 7 - 10 years of progressive experience in customer support, operations, or service delivery within a regulated or complex environment.
  • 4+ years of people leadership experience managing leaders and/or multi-layered teams.

  Skills

  • Leadership and management skills.
  • Customer service and support experience.
  • Regulatory compliance knowledge.
  • People development and coaching abilities.
  • Change management and implementation skills.
  • Data interpretation and translation skills.

  Benefits

  Republic Services offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

  • Comprehensive medical benefits coverage, dental plans and vision coverage.
  • Health care and dependent care spending accounts.
  • Short- and long-term disability.
  • Life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment insurance.
  • Employee and Family Assistance Program (EAP).
  • Employee discount programs.
  • 401(k) plan with a generous company match.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
  • Paid Time Off (PTO).

  Pay

  This role's pay range is $125,900 to $173,150, depending on the location. The actual range may vary based on the locality.

  Schedule

  This role is hybrid, with 4 days per week in the office.