Position overview:
Optimasis looking forafriendly, patient and empatheticInside Sales Account Controller, to provide best-in-class service to our customers in a multi-location global distribution environment.Outstanding collaboration with other members of sales, supply chain and operations support teams is critical to achieving objectives. Growth and new business should be a priority in this role and it is key to work with the relevant teams to achieve wins.
Principal Activities:
1. Maintain strong customer relationships;
2. Meet and/or exceed service expectations and initiatives of the business;
3. Partner with supply chain to address urgent customer needs;
4. Adhere and perform to the customer service representative key performance indicator;
5. Adhere to and embrace the THREAD values ofOptimas;
6. Adhere to and embrace the Customer Service best practice disciplines;
7. Demonstrating proficiency in delivering theOptimastotal value proposition to the customer and at all levels inside the customer;
8. Ensure customer satisfaction andall sales are profitable and in line with or better than budgeted expectations;
9. Developing, engaging and maintaining cross functional teamwork and driving communication betweenOptimassupport teams;
10. Closely manage and update Open Order Book.
Key responsibilities:
11. Continuous communication with customer via phone and email: order requests, order processing & changes, order status, tracking information, shipping discrepancies, Kanban management, invoice errors and quality issues.
12. Strong proactive nature towards driving new growth opportunities with current and new customers
13. Capability to qualify enquiries and work with the relevant teams in the business to try and win new business
14. Making outbound phone calls to assigned customers to explore new business opportunities
15. Driving E&O sales with customers & the ability to negotiate if necessary
16. Working closely with business development team on enquiries from new customers
17. Responsible for all system transactions to service customer: entering orders, expediting orders, tracking order status, managing returns, maintaining customer data integrity, and resolving invoice discrepancies.
18. Generating sales leads by suggesting information about other products and services Manage customer order books, including initiating and follow-up to resolve issues, answer questions and correspondence and complete reports as it relates to the customer base.
19. Provide Assistance and Support to the Sales Organization Team as assigned.
20. Communicate effectively with the Supply Chain team and other internal departments.
21. May prepare and/or present proposals and quotes and recommend product based on customer needs.
22. Meet or exceed Customer Support Rep KPI’s.
23. Responsible for your teams POD updates on to our system and to insure all POD’s are up to date
24. Responsible/support your team's open debit notes to a close
25. Make critical decisions daily with the ability to develop root cause analysis.
26. Collaborate with Operations to meet urgent customer demand and orders.
27. Collaborate with Technical Service Department on Quality issues.
28. Collaborate with Supply Chain Planners and Demand Planning to continuously improve forecast and order portfolios to the supplier.
29. Other tasks and duties as assigned.
Key Competencies:
The ideal candidate must have the following competencies:
30. Results driven
31. Strategic Vision
32. Embrace change
33. Collaboration and Influence
34. Entrepreneurial spirit
35. Customer value and Market focus
36. Strong commercial mentality, with the ability to negotiate with customer
Skills and Qualifications:
37. Excellent Communication skills – fluent verbal and written
38. Excited about helping our customers
39. Friendly, patient and empathetic
40. Continuous improvement
41. Attention to detail
42. Positive attitude
43. Problem solving
44. Excellentorganisationalskills
45. Computer Literate MS Office to include Word and Excel
46. Excellent time management
47. Excellent Team working
48. Strong negotiation skills
49. Commercially minded
This is an exciting opportunity for career development within a customer-focused role. If you are enthusiastic, energetic and driven, this is the role for you!
OptimasOE Solutions provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements,OptimasOE Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall,transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.