Mission Statement: The Customer Service Technical Liaison plays a pivotal role in managing internal activities to ensure optimal commercial support for external and internal customers. Leveraging technical knowledge of products, pricing, and applications, the incumbent innovates and implements strategies to continually enhance the service level provided by Clean Energy Solutions to distributors, end-users, and global business units.
Accountabilities: The Customer Service Technical Liaison is accountable for managing and providing information and assistance to internal and external customers regarding technical issues and requirements, including engineering, shipping, operations, and supply. Serving as the technical liaison between the technical team and customers, this role leads the customer service team in addressing technical inquiries, providing accurate quotes, and facilitating product solutions.
Responsibilities:
Determine customer service requirements by maintaining close contact with customers, mastering the operational environment, and analyzing information and applications.
Provide quality customer support by handling incoming customer calls effectively and courteously.
Develop high level understanding of the various products and services with ability to speak to and answer high level technical questions from customers
Continuously improving technical knowledge and staying updated on product features and updates
Improve customer service quality results by studying, evaluating, and redesigning processes; establish and communicate service metrics; monitor and analyze results; implement changes and update customers regularly.
Assist customers, both on the phone and through written correspondence, with orders, ship dates, expedited requests, complaints, and questions. Provide the necessary follow-up to ensure that all customer inquiries, questions, and complaints are resolved in a timely and satisfactory manner.
Maximize customer operational performance by resolving technical questions, planning, shipping, and service problems.
Attend daily team Gemba meetings and act as the key point person for technical information delivery and response to customer inquiries.
Manage team customer service reports and allocate standard and rush orders based on business and customer needs.
Develop and enhance procedures and tools to facilitate ease of doing business for customers.
Resolve product and service complaints by understanding and clarifying the customer's complaint, helping the customer to determine the cause of the problem, selecting the best solution to resolve the issue, and following up to ensure effective resolution.
Coordinate with production to schedule and expedite orders as necessary to exceed customer expectations, while maintaining continuous communication with the technical team for operations status, shipping, and engineering updates.
Recommend process improvements and cost-saving initiatives.
Undertake other special projects and activities as identified.
Education/Aptitude:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and strong computer skills
Experience with Info/XA or similar ERP systems
Strong customer service orientation
Required Experience:
Bachelor's degree in information technology, engineering, science or related field and/or commensurate experience
3-5 years of customer service, order entry, and/or sales experience
Knowledge of KPI's/5S/Kaizen/Lean culture initiatives
Experience working in industrial/manufacturing environment preferred
Leadership/supervisory experience preferred
Personal Characteristics:
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Disciplined work ethic.
Detail-oriented and well-organized.
Process orientation.
Team player.
Passion for customers and customer service.
High energy, motivating style.
Adaptable
This position requires a candidate who can effectively blend customer service expertise with technical acumen to ensure seamless communication between customers and technical teams, ultimately enhancing the overall customer experience