Customer Service Rep; Account Manager

Budnick Converting, Inc., headquartered in Columbia, IL (in the St. Louis, MO metropolitan area), is a privately held and female owned corporation. Budnick’s primary focus is specialty converting of adhesive coated tapes and foams. Budnick remains on the leading edge of adhesive tape converting technology; currently utilizing over 70 die-cutting, slitting, laminating, printing (including flexographic printing), label making and spooling machines to convert materials into labor saving customized parts.

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Customers are our 1st priority. Assist customers in a prompt, friendly, efficient and accurate manner that builds customer loyalty and confidence to ensure their repeat business. Work in conjunction with sales representatives, estimators, purchasing and production to ensure that customers’ needs are handled all the way through the life cycle of an order.

Must be able to remain in a stationary sitting/standing position for 75% of the time working from a cubical office environment. Must be able to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc., Constantly operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer. This position requires frequent communication with customers and other employees;

must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.

• Answer telephone calls (3rd ring or before) and emails (before the end of the day) from new and current customers, sales reps. and vendors in a courteous and professional manner. Respond as soon as possible to customer inquiries within 24 hours of last communication to customer; unless advised the response would be longer. Document and log relevant customer information in the call log for tracking purposes.
• Enter orders, answer questions, resolve problems, follow‑up to ensure promised deliveries are made and advise customers of availability, price and delivery schedules. Contact customer and/or sales rep. regarding any complication with an order (stock outages, back‑orders, delayed delivery, etc.)
• Work with sales representatives and estimators regarding customer business, new opportunities, follow‑ups on quotes and orders, managing business as a team. Support all team members, covering each other as needed to help take care of the customer. Be the point person for team meetings.
• Provide basic quotes out of the system or gather information from customers and/or sales representatives for estimators to create quotes.
• Proactively work with all departments to solve problems encountered by the customer (credit hold, miss‑shipped product, vendor expedites, damages, defective products, etc.)
• Process requests for credit and/or pick up for return of product.
• Review the open order dashboard, monitor, make notes and adjust open orders at least 3 times per week.
• Work with vendors to gain an understanding of new and existing products and current promotions.
• Request samples from manufacturers as needed to ensure that chosen production methods are applicable.
• Perform duties safely and maintain a high level of safety awareness.

• Assist in the development of long‑term strategies & help implement the plan(s) developed. Communicate ideas and accomplishments to the Customer Service Manager.
• Assist in the training of new department employees.
• Alert Team Point Person to conditions that create delays or affect quality of production work in a timely manner, assisting in adjustments and changes needed to meet established deadlines.
• Follow operation standards and all department policies and company directives and assist with other projects and tasks as required by management.

Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communications skills required. Good organizational and problem‑solving skills a must. Should have a working competency with all office equipment. Good mathematical aptitude.

Ability: Conduct business in a professional, positive and courteous manner. Listen effectively, respond clearly, write legibly and read a variety of…