Customer Service Representative

GDKN Corp.•Salinas, CA

16h•Onsite

About The Position

The Customer Service Coordinator represents to the customer and acts as a critical liaison between the customer, sales, and operations teams. The Customer Service Coordinator is the first point of contact with our customer and sets the tone for their experience. The Customer Service Coordinator maintains an ongoing relationship with multiple customers and sales teams across one or multiple plants, utilizing a diverse knowledge of products, production planning, logistics, and inventory management. Work under limited supervision on routine work.

Requirements

Computer Proficient (Microsoft Office Suite)
Proficient in Data Entry/Analysis
Ability to read/write in English (clear communication)

Nice To Haves

Attention to Detail: Follow established processes and procedures to ensure accuracy of work (Do it right the first time)
Customer-Oriented: Ability to operate with customers' best interests in mind; Demonstrates importance for satisfying external and/or internal customers; Efficiently communicates with customers to ensure alignment and satisfaction.
Communication: Proactive, prompt, and respectful correspondences; essential listening skills with ability to accurately problem solve
Collaboration: Works effectively with others to complete a task or achieve a common objective; ability to cooperate in team relationships to foster enthusiasm and maintain mutual trust, candor, and respect for others
Problem-Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; generates and evaluates alternative solutions; makes recommendations; demonstrates problem solving skills by using a logical, systematic, or sequential approach; suggest alternative products or services to meet customer needs when appropriate. Problems may not be routine and may require exercising judgement and identifying less obvious solutions.
Growth and Results Oriented: Demonstrates an interest, willingness, and drive to learn new things; seeks to understand concepts, processes, and ideas within area of functional expertise; naturally inquisitive; sets meaningful goals for personal work productivity.
Organizational Skills: Planning, monitoring, and prioritizing tasks to ensure achievement of desired results; establishes a systematic course of action to accomplish objectives through multi-tasking and ability to forward-think.
Time Management: Ability to structure time to meet customer demands; demonstrate flexibility to balance your schedule, tasks, and responsibilities to complete things on time.

Responsibilities

Create and validate new item specifications/projects.
Manage complex accounts/items through processing incoming orders, and/or inquiries, by scheduling demand on machines, and managing orders to ensure customer's delivery requirements are met.
Proactively track order activity, inventory levels, and alert appropriate staff/customers of any potential issues.
Handle outside purchases for services and materials required for the manufacturing of customer projects.
Produce reports and share data with customers.
Generate customer issues and support the Quality Manager to obtain information, research, and troubleshoot quality issues.
Empowered to develop yourself through a culture of training to give you the tools to accomplish your best work and satisfy the customer and business partners.
Collaborate and partner with appropriate business owners to ensure customer experience is delivered.
Provide guidance and training to junior level employees.
Serve as a connection between customers, sales team, credit analyst, and collections to ensure responsiveness and customer satisfaction.
Pre-Pricing Specialist to build customer specifications/projects and review with production team to ensure efficient production.
Planning, production, and shipping teams to review schedules and backlogs to ensure on time delivery.
Quality Manager to resolve routine customer quality issues.
Plant Leadership to align with company goals and initiatives.