Franklin Electric

Customer Support

• Provide end-to-end, single point of contact support for our best customers – the As – from order entry and inquiry to AR support and issue resolution.
• Proactively anticipate customer needs and identify any potential opportunities or issues. Create recommendations and facilitate actions accordingly. (Requires a strong knowledge of the account, products, and daily interaction on a high level).
• Support the marketing strategy to create new relationships, new customers, new markets.
• Serve as the customers’ voice, including marketing, product, professional services and sales.
• Establish and deepen relationships with customers by understanding their business objectives and providing exemplary support.
• Communicate frequently with customers on updates, information, concerns and suggestions.
• Mine various communication feedback and benchmark data, launch and/or support innovative efforts to drive new efforts and change to meet the customers’ perceived expectations and needs.
• Identify potential upsell, new product, substitution or replacement opportunities, slow moving products as well as obsolete/excess inventory in an effort to create a value strategy specific to the opportunity.
• Manage deliverables specific to meeting the team’s strategic objectives.
• Use customer benchmark data to highlight customers’ strategic success and provide ongoing recommendations for further optimization.
• Communicate and coordinate with internal departments (Product Managers/Sales Team/Marketing).
• Organize workflow to meet customer timeframes (coordinate with main buyer / purchaser – setting up and defining process per customer’s requirements).
• Complete forms, applications and/or customer requests.
• Business travel required as needed. Participate in customer visits, trade shows and/or events.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Customer Service Specialist