The Opportunity:The purpose of the Customer Service Representative role is helping the business achieve their targets and KPI through fast and diligent process support. He /She is the main point of Care and Supply Chain teams regarding orders in progress.
Business Role Customer Service/ Open Order Management Responsible
LocationBucharest, Romania
Functional Role Sales Services associate
Reporting to TL SPOC
Responsibilities The purpose of the Customer Service Representative role is helping the business achieve their targets and KPI through fast and diligent process support. He /She is the main point of Care and Supply Chain teams regarding orders in progress.
Responsible for all customer orders being in a constant flow:
- Processes customer purchase orders, resolves issues, handles general inquiries, cross references with a max margin method;
- Provides consultancy and guidance to Core teams on the Open Order Management cycle and associated processes;
- Helps maximizing the revenue on the accounts throughout quarters by collaborating with all involved stakeholders;
- Backlog accountability;
- Manages the Open Order Report to ensure that appropriate actions are taken to deliver orders within agreed SLA and according to business need;
- Uses tools (i.e. SAP/S4, OSS/OSV, SFDC, etc) daily and acts accordingly;
- Provide backlog analysis and summary report to stakeholders recurrently;
- Handles customer inquiries via email and phone (e.g. delivery date, documents, certificates, price confirmation, ship to address etc);
- Liaises with local CS, SCSF, Procurement, Warehouse etc teams to offer customers swift solutions and replies;
- Checks reports (e.g. blocks, reservations etc);
- Maintains accurate data in SAP;
- Performs troubleshoot on all sales orders;
- Assists to identify and execute various enhancements to all management process;
- Ensures compliance to all company and business policies and administer all open sales order and ensure appropriate order flow;
- Follows up on deliveries with the warehouse, ensuring goods issue, delivery and invoicing on time.
Qualification criteriaAcademic:
University Qualification (Economics, business sciences) and 3+ years in a fast paced, customer focused working environment
Master Degree is a plus
Biopharma/Lab environment knowledge (preferable)
Skills and competences
SAP knowledge in sales activities;
Strong analytical and problem solving skills;
Time management skills
Process improvement management
Prioritization skills.
Language skills (refer CEFR):
-for Germany: German C1-B2, English B2
-for France: French C1, English B2
-same for all respective countries
Soft skills:
- Highly customer centric as well as proactive and team focused;
- Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to comfortably interact with internal and external stakeholders and various client types (e.g. technical, end user, and economic buyers);
- High sense of responsibility and self-starter;
- Thinks outside the box to advance innovation;
- Process improvement management;
- Analytical skills to thinks through complex problems.
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