Description
Customer Account Representative
£14.79 per hour PAYE
Contract until Dec 2024
Ansty Park, Coventry (4 days per week on site)
Summary:
Our client is currently searching for a Customer Account Representative to join their team in Coventry. Within this role, you would be the first point of contact for our clients customers. You would be responsible for delivering world-class service and supporting the business by responding to customer enquiring, updating the business systems, collaborating internally to prepare and deliver quotations.
Role Responsibilities:
- The Customer Account Representative is responsible for receiving, reviewing, and entering purchase orders into the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
- Raising quotes and customer documentation, prioritizing workload to ensure the customer always receives an excellent service.
- Respond to various customer emails and phone calls to manage their orders and enquiries; the Customer Account Representative will serve as the primary point of contact by customers' buyers and supply chain personnel.
- Refer any pricing queries to the Senior Customer Account Representative and/or the Commercial functions to ensure accurate pricing is applied.
- Produce costing sheets in collaboration with colleagues from Procurement, Demand Planning and Manufacturing departments as required to produce accurate quotes.
- Use SAP product recognition to identify runner/repeater parts and what can be sold to the customer. For any stranger/alien parts raise the relevant enquiry process.
- Upon receipt of orders for "out-of-production" products, gather the information necessary to prepare a quotation, which includes pricing, production lead time and terms and conditions.
- Deliver quotations to customers and coordinate with various functional leaders to ensure questions are answered until the order is received or the opportunity is closed as lost
- Monitor and actively manage customer portals to ensure prices, quantities, lead times and contract terms are acceptable in accordance with authority delegated by appropriate functional leaders (ie, Finance, Commercial, and Operations)
Experience Required:
- Aware of the regulations pertaining to the products and customers for which the employee is responsible (ie, FAR, DFARS, DEFCONS, etc.)
- Ability to understand and follow specific instructions and procedures
- Ability to gather data, to compile information, and prepare reports
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent customer service orientation
- Well-organized, detail-oriented, and ability to multi-task
- Ability to prioritize duties, to meet deadlines
- Strong computer skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, and web-browsers
- Knowledge of SAP