Customer Service Representative

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Location:

Bolingbrook, Illinois, United States of America.

At Solina, our community of close to 5,000 people share a passion for food and live our entrepreneurial culture. We design customised savoury solutions for our clients operating in the food industry, food service, butchery and nutrition markets. With sustainability at the heart of our business model, we aim to produce food that is good in every sense of the word: delicious, nourishing, affordable, sustainable and convenient.

Solina is a fast‑growing business, with around 50 production sites and R&D laboratories present in more than 19 countries mainly in Europe and North America. By constantly rethinking culinary solutions,
we make food matter for people and the planet
. If you're ready for a new adventure in a dynamic, expanding, passionate, international company,
join us
! Solina USA is a proud Solina Group company, specializing in the creation of customized seasonings and sauces. We take pride in our four strategically located production facilities across the United States which empower us to deliver high‑quality, innovative flavor solutions efficiently to our customers. Our focus is on catering to Quick Service Restaurants, Fast casual, Casual dining, and food manufacturers, where our commitment lies in providing exceptional flavor solutions tailored to their unique needs.

Solina USA has a proven national reputation of providing an exceptional customer experience by providing a high‑quality product at a cost‑competitive price point. We create dynamic relationships where our creativity can be visible through our customers culinary vision making “Food Matter.”

Are you passionate about serving customers with excellence? If you answered yes, the Customer Success Representative role could be the position you've been looking for. When starting with this role, you will be in training for approximately 6‑9 months. You will learn the core requirements of serving our customer base and sales and then slowly start taking on accounts.

This document in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying the position.

• This role is accountable for guiding the life cycle of the order, from order entry into our system, until arrival with the customer.
• Proactively partner with Supply Planning and Demand Planning on resolutions when shortages are known. Obtain options for customer’s shortages and present details related to root cause, along with options for recovery.
• Collaborate with the transportation team obtaining on‑going updates to provide the customer, sales, and broker (where applicable).
• Handle the late/light order approval process for late order requests to process and ship under standard lead time.
• Ensures all order management guidelines such as lead time, order minimums, order cut‑off times, late order requests and changes are followed to minimize errors and maximize Supply Chain efficiency.
• Assists in managing Customer Master Data to ensure customer records are accurate and order entry is not delayed.
• Assists claims department on matters related to incorrect or rejected orders.
• Develop strong and trusted relationships with customers through timely and accurate communications.
• Manage a high volume of communication/requests, resolving issues in an accurate and timely manner.
• Maintain and update documents related to customer accounts.
• Conflict resolution:
  Learning the ability to defuse high pressure situations and remain solutions driven.
• While working with the Training Manager, learning how to host calls with sales, various supply chain partners, and customers when issues/concerns arise.
• Accountable for promoting increased order size, direct plant shipments and various other customer programs/initiatives.
• Individuals will receive accounts slowly into the 6–9‑month program.
• Smaller and less complicated accounts will slowly be transitioned to individuals into their 6–9 month program.
• Learn about the Customer Success MBO’s and start to embed in day‑to‑day work.
• DPS – constantly look for opportunities to direct plant ship orders that are not defaulted.
• Increase Truck…