Resolve escalated customer inquiries related to service/non-selling issues to ensure successful resolution and good customer experience
Perform necessary non-selling tasks and account maintenance in support of customer onboarding, program rollouts, and other customer program and support projects
Determine root cause of issues as appropriate including delivery, website updates, credit/billing, order quotes, product/stock, returns, and vendor inquiries
Assist in facilitating customer projects, relevant communications with updates to customer and sales counterparts
Leverage support interactions to educate customers on core program features and self-service options and/or customer service when feasible
Consistently meet activity goals and daily metrics, utilizing salesforce.com to track account and planning activities
Timely Issue Resolution and Customer satisfaction
Reduce non selling activities for the Account Manager
Solicit and incorporate Account manager feedback and Internal Customer and External Customer Feedback
Implement or facilitate improvements to procedures, services, or products, as well as development of new ideas, methods, techniques, services, and products
Account set-up and maintenance
Root cause analysis
Account assortment and pricing
Implementation
Communicate an exchange of information both orally and in writing with both external and internal customers to include peers, managers, sales, and sales leadership
Work cross functionally and inclusively to gather diverse perspectives to craft solutions and strategies
Requirements
Ability to interface at customer’s Manager, Director or VP levels; Strong business acumen
Ability to manage a demanding and unpredictable workload with efficiency and poise to resolve issues
Strong knowledge of Business Essentials including facility and breakroom, technology products, business furniture, print and promotional products
Experience with administrative, project management tasks
Process improvement and implementation experience
Previous experience with account management
Experience and proven track record of managing programs, issue resolution, root cause analysis and customer interaction
Price Decision Making: Make discretionary pricing decisions based on their knowledge of the account and predetermined parameters set with the seller for independent daily adjustments to account quotes and pricing
Team Selling Environment: CSC is required to be actively involved in the future growth of an account
Ability to function independently with minimal daily supervision
Verbal and written communication skills
Problem Solving Skills
Knowledge of product, product applications, pricing, competition, and sales objectives
Business process impact knowledge
Time management skills
Previous exposure to customer service escalation
High school diploma or GED
6+ months experience using Microsoft Office
Proficient in Microsoft Office and other basic software tools
2+ years experience in CSC with the ability to partner with the IKAM position, Category AE’s and the B2B site developers
2+ years of business experience
2+ years PC Skills including Word, Excel, Access a plus
2+ years experience in Sales to include knowledge and understanding of the sales organization process