Rick Desmarais, Director, Lean & Operational Excellence, Customer & Logistics Services at Johnson & Johnson

Rick Desmarais


Director, Lean & Operational Excellence, Customer & Logistics Services
Johnson & Johnson

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The Rise Of The Machines

Friday, November 3rd, 2017


15:10 Success Story Interview: Recruiting & Training A Commercially-Centric, Service-Led Workforce To Monetise Customer Interaction

As the economy recovers and more work becomes available for service businesses, our organisations are seeking a new type of engineer. Technical ability to carry out skilled and complex work is no longer enough- we are hiring Generation Y staff with interpersonal attributes to build relationships with customers, manage their expectations & upsell service. So what does this new competency profile look like? Who are we recruiting? And how do we access the talent pool? In this session, you’ll hear from a Head of Global Service who is taking important steps today to develop future field service leaders across their team.