What You'll Do
The Account Support Representative is responsible for having a deep understanding of the customer order life cycle, from receipt to fulfillment to shipment, and everything in between. This role will gain a strong working knowledge of operations, partnering daily with such areas as Supply, Logistics and Compliance. The role of Account Support Representative will oversee the execution of a high volume, complex and dynamic order book for our three brands - Dearfoams, Baggallini and Columbus Product Group.
Specific Responsibilities
1. Manage the daily execution of the orders within your assigned account base. Analyze shipment potential, proposing execution recommendations
or solutions, juggling multiple priorities, working to achieve key customer and corporate milestones, creative problem solving, collaboration with other departments and communicating results.
2. Process of new orders in a timely manner, which can arrive in multiple ways (EDI, B2B, Manual, Uploads) and with both immediate and future ship dates. Resolve any receipt issues (from pricing to supply and anything in between), sometimes working with Supply Planning, IT and others to do so, and communicating results, and recommended next steps as needed, to Sales and the Customer.
3. Foster key sales partnerships through regular communication, aligning on account execution, addressing issues and opportunities and determination of best practices for the account. Act as your Sales reps eyes and ears as their internal liaison, working with other departments to resolve or act on their requests.
4. Drive executions of account orders and to ensure their expectations are met or surpassed. Act as the internal point of contact for your assigned accounts, addressing their requests and collaborating with sales on communication with them.
5. Assist with developing and/or providing critical feedback on new initiatives, new process development or existing process enhancement, for overall improvements or for those specifically related to your accounts.
6. Collaborate with key departments such as Inventory Management, Credit, DC, Production, Transportation, etc. to proactively identify opportunities which will improve order flow and, also, working with them reactively on issues (including root cause analysis, immediate and future resolution).
Qualifications