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Sr. Assistant Customer Service Representative - New Lennox, IL
The opportunity:
The Customer Service Representative (CSR) represents Smurfit Westrock to the customer and acts as a critical liaison between the customer, sales, and operations teams. The CSR receives and processes routine customer orders, inquiries, and/or customer issues related to orders. The CSR maintains the ongoing relationship with multiple customers and sales staff, utilizing knowledge of products, logistics, production planning, and inventory management.
How you will impact Smurfit Westrock:
Business Excellence
Provide pricing, inventory availability and production schedule information to customers
Track warehouse inventories and update customers on order status
Run customized reports and share data with customers
Review customer credit information to ensure necessary credit is established for customer orders
Track order activity and alert appropriate staff of any potential delivery problems
Suggest alternative products or services to meet customer needs when appropriate
Support the development of corrective action plans to enable the Quality Manager to research and troubleshoot quality issues
Record, organize, and process orders and/or inquiries received by telephone, email, and/or through personal customer contact
Obtain pricing for services and materials required for the manufacturing of customer items that must be manufactured at a different facility
People and Culture
Serve as a connection between customers and sales staff to ensure responsiveness and customer satisfaction
Collaborate and negotiate viable solutions to maintain customer satisfaction while delivering on WestRock values
Partner with Quality Manager to resolve routine customer issues
Partner with Pre-Pricing specialist to build customer specifications and review with production team to ensure efficient production
Quickly and effectively resolve customer or production issues maintaining clear communication with customers on status and resolution
What you need to succeed:
Critical Skills / Capabilities:
Customer-Oriented: Demonstrates concern for satisfying external and/or internal customers; resolves customer issues in a timely manner; communicates with customers to ensure alignment and satisfaction; ability to operate with customers' best interests in mind
Communication: Clearly exchanges thoughts, ideas, and messages through written, verbal, and non-verbal methods that promote an understanding with the target audience; listens carefully and attentively
Collaboration: Works effectively with others to complete a task or achieve a common objective; ability to cooperate in both interpersonal and team relationships to foster enthusiasm and maintain mutual trust, candor, and respect for others. Works through conflict constructively
Problem-Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; generates and evaluates alternative solutions; makes recommendations; demonstrates tackling a problem by using a logical, systematic, or sequential approach
Growth and Results Oriented: Demonstrates an interest, willingness and drive to learn new things; seeks to understand concepts, processes, and ideas within area of functional expertise; naturally inquisitive; sets meaningful goals for personal work productivity
Organizational Skills: Plans, arranges and/or monitor's work to ensure achievement of desired results; establishes a systematic course of action to accomplish objectives
Technical Skills:
Microsoft Office - Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint
Order entry system experience (e.g. AS/400)
Other Qualifications:
To perform the duties of the job, this role requires:
Frequently using fingers to type with two hands
Occasionally reaching by extending fingers on one hand
Occasionally reaching by extending two arms
Occasionally using fingers to grasp with two hands
Occasionally using fingers to pinch with two hands
The spoken exchange of ideas to be performed loudly 50-75% of the time
The spoken exchange of ideas to be performed quickly 50-75% of the time
The safe and accurate preparation and analyzing of data and figures, monitoring of a computer terminal, or inspection of small defects or parts
Work Environment:
Constantly works indoors, in an environment that is climate controlled
The role is frequently sedentary, which entails sitting or being stationary
Occasionally stands or walks for 1-2 hours at a time
Noisy work environment; maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations
Experience:
Required: 3+ years of customer service-related work experience in manufacturing environment or other industries
Preferred: 3 to 5 years of manufacturing industry experience Education:
Required: High School diploma or G.E.D.
Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is a global leader in sustainable paper and packaging solutions. We are materials scientists, packaging designers, mechanical engineers and manufacturing experts with a shared purpose: Innovate Boldly. Package Sustainably. Guided by our values of integrity, respect, accountability and excellence, we use leading science and technology to move fiber-based packaging forward.
Smurfit Westrock is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to create and maintain a diverse workforce where everyone feels valued, respected, and included. Smurfit Westrock does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.