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-Pak’s 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 SLA’s 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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