Typical schedule is 9 AM - 5:30 PM (hybrid remote Monday and Friday)
Client: A major global corporation and leader in their industry with annual revenue over $90B and employing over 250,000.
Overview:
This role serves as the primary point of contact and advocate for the customer and is responsible to optimize orders while driving efficiency and minimizing waste throughout the E2E order to cash process flow.
Role:
Identify and resolve demand capture failures within defined Service Level Agreement (SLA).
Regularly monitor open orders according to the daily activity schedule and ensure adherence to the tasks and cadence.
Collaborate with customer or cross functional business partners to resolve blocked orders within SLA.
Contact customer when required due to out of stock or stock allocation issues.
Collaborate with order fulfillment team to resolve issues preventing delivery note creation (e.g. delivery block).
Contact customer and propose resolution if issues identified post-delivery note due to transportation or warehousing issues (such as appointment scheduling, delivery delay, picking issues etc.)
Serve as principal customer contact for capturing, creating and registering all return requests.
Assess compliance of return requests according to market return policy conditions.
Obtain authorization from Sales for return requests that exceed market return policy thresholds
Validate returned product is in sellable condition and ensure all relevant documentation is provided for analysis of credit / debit value.
Coordinate destruction or donation of goods when physical return is not warranted.
Ensure refusals created by the OS&D team in transportation contain appropriate order reason code and correct pricing prior to billing.
Analyze reasons for refusals and contact customers to propose mitigation actions to reduce / eliminate in the future.
Collaborate with billing in the resolution of billing issues that require customer contact.
Collaborate with key stakeholders and business partners (such as CFSC, Sales, Logistics, COC etc.) to ensure the quality of processes are aligned to meet the business and customer needs.
Provide 360° visibility on status of orders to customers and internal teams.
Apply appropriate root cause reason codes following global Reason Code Methodology.
Identify, analyze and initiate the escalation process based on escalation criteria.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree is a plus.
3 - 5 years' experience in supply chain preferred (e.g. order management, distribution, inventory management, transportation, demand and supply planning etc.)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Excellent analytical aptitude with a proven ability to analyze/interpret data.
Proficiency in Microsoft office applications (e.g. Word, Excel, Outlook).
Proficiency in SAP, BW and BusinessObjects software is a plus
Strong customer service mindset and passion for delighting customers internally and externally.