Customer Service Representative

This position is responsible for managing the company’s order activity, from order entry through issue resolution to delivery, ensuring that customer orders are processed timely and accurately resulting in on-time customer deliveries. This position must develop excellent working relationships and act as a liaison with the company’s brokers, customers, sales teams, distribution centers, plants, and carriers, as well as internal departments, including but not limited to trade marketing, marketing, global planning, procurement, warehousing, logistics, IT, and finance to ensure quality customer service and service goals.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Receive and process customer orders, ensuring orders meet Company policies relating to pricing and promotional offerings and order guidelines such as lead time, weight, fixed delivery. Proactively reach out to brokers and customers to correct reoccurring compliance issues.
• Understand, police, and enforce compliance with policies and procedures required by the Company in the areas of customer service, order handling and promotional expenditures by the company’s sales and broker network so that results will satisfy any audit review. Communicate and resolve all discrepancies with appropriate departments.
• Maintain history records and related problem order documentation for future reference.
• Maintain and keep current customer profiles for assigned area, including Vendor and/or Routing Guides.
• Resolve operational issues identified while monitoring e-mail groups assigned.
• Manage service issues daily. Must quickly identify the source of a problem, gather, and analyze information related to the issue, and devise a solution that best meets both the Company’s and the customer’s needs.
• Manage allocation of product for customers during severe service issues. Monitor and evaluate order activity to ensure that customers do not exceed allocation requirements. Work with Planning, Sales, and Customer Development team to resolve allocation issues.
• Prompt analysis and communication of product cuts and delivery issues.
• Work collaboratively with the Global Planning team, Transportation team, NFI Transport Management, DC Inventory, and Distribution Centers (DCs) to support shipments.
• Conduct analyses of customers to measure customer performance and identify opportunities. Enforce company ordering requirements, encourage/enforce ordering in even layers/pallets, make suggestions for more efficient ordering patterns. Identify specific DCs or ship-tos that are having issues and investigate further to find solutions for problems causing late orders and fines.
  Provide regular reporting to Sales and brokers to support collaborative problem-solving and Sales efforts.
• Manage reporting requests and special projects as needed (deduction reviews, customer performance reviews, new customer implementations, process improvements).
• Monitor and Manage Deductions for assigned customers – review monthly deductions, dispute any that are invalid, provide reporting on valid deductions to relevant departments and give recommendations on how to improve service and minimize fines. Resolve within 30 days of receipt.
• Communicate problems or concerns to managers on an as-needed basis with recommendations on how to resolve.
• Maintain an understanding of all Bumble Bee and Anova customers in order to provide comprehensive coverage.

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS        

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Motivated self-starter
• Ability to work independently without supervision
• Ability to collaborate with other departments and in teams
• Ability to engage in critical thinking, data analysis, problem solving
• Professional oral and written communication skills across all levels of the organization
• Experience working with Microsoft Teams, Excel, SAP a plus

 

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

 

The health, satisfaction and security of our team members and their families are important to us and an important part of reaching our organization’s goals. We offer a total rewards package that includes valuable competitive compensation and benefit plans. These programs reflect our commitment to attracting and retaining top talent. The compensation for this role includes base salary and eligibility for an annual bonus based on company performance. All incentive plans are subject to change.

 

The expected pay range for this role is $22.50 – $28.50 ($46,800 – $59,280) paid at an hourly rate.

*The compensation will be commensurate with the level of knowledge, education, skills, and experience applicable to the position.

 

Our current benefits package, which is available to all full-time team members and their eligible dependents, includes:

 

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• HSA & FSA
• life insurance and disability insurance
• and other voluntary benefits

 

We also offer time-off benefits including:

 

• paid time-off
• sick-flex time
• 12 company paid holidays

Bumble Bee Foods, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/ Affirmative Action employer. Employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based on race (including hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, veteran status, or any other protected status under federal, state, or local law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request accommodation, contact Bumble Bee Foods, LLC Human Resources Representative.