Description:
Reports to the Customer Services Team Leader, Marine. Receives and processes customer orders, inquiries and complaints. Maintains an ongoing relationship with selected customers and sales staff. Uses knowledge of products and services, availability, sales territories, and individual customers to provide a key communications link for the customer. Uses analysis, judgment, and sensitivity to customer needs and demonstrates a high-level product, service and process knowledge
Duties and responsibilities
- Provides advanced product and service information and respond to complex customer questions about those products and services
- Records and processes orders, including custom and special orders that may require additional resources for delivery and coordinating with those teams as required
- Makes calls (by telephone or other channel) to allocated customers to develop new and deepen existing relationships. Acts as a first point of contact for resolving customer queries / complaints
- Responds to and resolve complex or advanced issue escalations promptly and appropriately, securing managerial approvals as required
- Schedules follow-up actions and enter relevant information into the customer relationship management system after each customer contact to create a call plan and ensure that Survitec has quality data to enable effective customer retention and business development activities
- Interviews (or assist in interviewing) the customer, following a complex multi-level sales script or conversation points, to clarify the customer's requirements. Makes full, appropriate and accurate notes, ensuring the customer records management system is updated in a timely manner
- Provides exceptional service to customers to encourage continued use of Survitec’s products and services
- Develops knowledge and understanding of Survitec policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct to ensure own work adheres to those standards. Obtains authorisation from a supervisor or manager for any exceptions from mandatory procedure
- Creates an environment where everyone in the team can live the Survitec Values
- Contributes positively to creating an inclusive environment where our people feel valued, appreciated and free to be who they are at work
- Understands, upholds and contributes to creating a safety-first culture within Survitec. Ensures a safe and environmentally healthy working environment
- Develops own capabilities through participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching. Develops and maintains an understanding of relevant technology, external regulation, and industry best practices
Skills
- Builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions
- Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
- Holds self and others to account for meeting commitments
- Rebounds from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations
- Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organisation moving forward
- Works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- Plans and prioritises work to meet commitments aligned with Survitec goals
- Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
- Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people
- Adapts approach and demeanour in real-time, to meet shifting demands of different situations
- Handles conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise