Mgr, Customer Service

Wayne Farms

86d

About The Position

The Customer Service Manager oversees the day-to-day activities of the customer service function in a poultry processing facility including overseeing the customer service team to facilitate interactions between scheduling, processing and shipping including order entry, scheduling follow-up, scheduling 3rd party truck for product shipment etc. This role ensued the prompt shipping of product to meet customer demand.

Requirements

• Understanding of the working relationships between internal departments with the ability to liaise between departments to resolve issues and dissolve roadblocks to facilitate an exceptional customer experience
• Ability to lead and motivate a team, setting clear priorities and ensuring team members understand their roles and responsibilities
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment using excellent organizational skills and precise attention to detail
• Must possess a strong customer-centric attitude, high energy level and a strong sense of urgency with strong problem-solving skills, using established procedures to address and resolve routine and complex customer service issues
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing with all levels of the organization and external vendors with the ability to explain information clearly and convey exceptions; multi-lingual preferred
• Ability to organize and prioritize work in a dynamic and complex environment to meet deadlines and daily requirements
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and maintain a productive and committed work effort, meeting deadlines and managing workload

Responsibilities

• Oversee the customer service team to ensure smooth flow between processing and delivery to customer ensuring product arrives as requested
• Review and follow-up on processing and shipping schedules to ensure schedules are followed, communicating any issues or roadblocks with appropriate personnel to ensure product is available to fulfill orders
• Facilitate communication between internal departments (Sales, Processing, Shipping and Customers) to resolve shortages, issues, product return, etc to ensure customers receive their orders as requested or are notified of any issue in a timely manner
• Create or schedule processing orders ensuring processing matches cut sheet liaising with Sales on processing schedules to ensure product availability
• Work with customers to resolve complaints, returns and/or refusals
• Partner with company locations on internal product transfers moving excess product to locations with shortages or secure excess product to fulfill location’s internal orders need
• Schedule trucks with 3rd party vendor or liaise with corporate logistics team for product pick-up and delivery, manage internal database (E2Open) and/or liaise with corporate logistics team to ensure product is efficiently and effectively shipped to customer in a timely manner
• May perform duties in other areas (Purchasing, Inventory Mgmt, A/R, etc) as requested
• Mentor, train/cross train employees, providing feedback for opportunities to improve and areas where excelling
• Perform other related duties as directed

Benefits

• Professional development opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees