Customer Service Manager

Are you an experienced

Customer Service Manager

looking for your next career move?
We are delighted to be working exclusively with Zip Pak in

Whitby

who are a global leader in resealable solutions for the flexible packaging industry. Zip-Paks lean, modern, and continuous manufacturing environments produce zippers using high-volume plastic extrusion and they have manufacturing sites in the United States, Europe, and South America.
Would you like to work for a global business with attractive benefits who value their people and support personal development? This could be the job for you!
We are looking for a dynamic and passionate Customer Service Manager who has experience of managing a team, coaching and development along with working to SLAs and monitoring performance data.
What the Customer Service Manager job involves
Training and developing the customer service team to achieve their potential and maintain a high performance.
Maintaining and establishing customer pricing and contracts.
Partner with the commercial team to support and implement growth strategies.
You will manage the accounts of circa 80 customers based around the EU.
Maintaining existing business and developing incremental business in existing accounts.
Manages retention of customer accounts by proactively reaching out to customers with declining sales to discuss accounts, company performance and orders.
Builds customer relationships and share knowledge of products and the market.
Maintains central files and records.
Manages the customer complaints management process and ensures liaison with other stakeholders.
Establishing customer service metrics, monitoring, and analysing results and implementing changes.
Developing, reviewing, maintaining, and enforcing policies and procedures.
Determining customer service requirements by benchmarking best practices by analysing information and applications and implementing change
Identifies and builds relationships with key decision-makers through friendly, engaging communication.
Works with the customer service team to provide forecast data to sales management.
Identifies areas to improve customer efficiencies through product simplification.
Skills required
Previous experience within a Customer Service based position.
People management / leadership experience.
An awareness of international logistics / shipping would be beneficial.
A good level or MS Office, especially Excel with Pivot Tables and V Lookups.
Previous experience from within a manufacturing, engineering, distribution or similar industry.
Other information
This is a full time position working from the Whitby site over 37.5 hours a week
They have an attractive enhanced pension scheme.
20 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing to 25 days after twelve months service.
A health and wellbeing scheme with access to counselling, money back on dental, medical etc
Death in service policy at six times your salary.
This vacancy is being advertised through KD Recruitment Limited who are operating as an Employment Agency.
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