Sea Logistics Customer Care Expert FCL import
Kuehne+Nagel
- București
- Permanent
- Full-time
Looking after your own portfolio, you will be in direct contact with clients daily to determine their sea logistics requirements and guiding them on the end-to-end freight forwarding process. You will need to build long term and effective relationships with your customers, regularly providing them with up-to-date information on their shipments and helping them solve any issues. You will also have regular contact with our other internal teams to ensure that shipments are running smoothly, any issues are resolved, and customers are kept informed.
You will support customers by providing helpful information, answering questions, as well responding to complaints. Utilizing your strong forwarding + market knowledge, you will provide front line support for customers to ensure customer satisfaction with our products, services + features.Some of your responsibilities may also include:
- Updating and negotiation of rates with customers.
- Acting as an inside salesperson and providing sales support to drive customer satisfaction.
- Monitoring your client's volumes and identifying when customers are up or down trading and acting accordingly .
- Identifying and pursuing possible opportunities to up-sell.
- Qualifying + entering customer orders into the operational execution system.
- Driving customer engagement, satisfaction, retention + reactivation in close cooperation with the Operational CareCenter (OCC), destinations + regional stakeholders.
- Establishing + strengthening operational relationships with customer contact(s) through daily interactions, regular visits, pro-actively advising + consulting to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Qualifying customer inquiries + providing quotations within the given price band, in line with the guiding leeway in decision-making, following up to ensure quotations are accepted + closed.
- Supporting customer onboarding in line with working instructions, ensuring inclusion + transfer of customer requirements into the KN systems alongside the (initial) customer order.
- Collaborating with Finance to adjust credit limits based on daily business development + coordinate measures in case of challenges.
- Documenting, resolving, analyzing all complaints, then identifying, sharing + eliminating root causes.
- Creating, reviewing + refining customer reports.
- Ensuring delivery against all financial targets + strategic objectives.
- Sound knowledge of Incoterms (essential) Solid technological skills, including MS Office
- Ability to effectively manage your time, especially when under pressure and with a busy workload
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Well organized and being able to track the progress of daily tasks or the ongoing projects
- Ability to think outside the square and solve problems
- Ability to build relationships with all stakeholders
- Prior direct responsibility for delivering exceptional customer experience
- Previous experience in a customer facing or sales support role dealing with FCL Import transports is highly advantageous
- A high sense of awareness and attention regarding the internal communication & market development
alexandra.dobre@kuehne-nagel.com