Customer Account Coordinator

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Position Title:

Customer Account Coordinator

Pay Rate: $48,300 - $64,400. Multiple factors, including individual experience, skills, and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range.

Category/Shift: Salaried Full‑Time

Physical

Location:

Minneapolis Sheet Plant, 3558 N. 2nd St., Minneapolis, MN 55412

• Acts as the primary point of contact to International Paper’s customers and is entrusted to ensure that our customers receive a world‑class customer experience.
• Entrusted as a key member of the site’s team to meet or exceed customer expectations and business objectives.
• Mastery of Customer Account Specialist accountabilities including:
• Convert customer purchase orders to manufacturing production orders.
• Ensure raw materials and tooling are ordered to support production.
• Communicate, professionally and respectfully, with internal and external customers regarding issues such as order status, estimates/quotations, order changes and order confirmations.
• Monitor and manage customer inventory levels.
• Investigate and resolve order discrepancies, customer quality complaints, overdue accounts receivable, and aged inventory.
• Establish strong relationships and communicate daily with representatives from operations, shipping, and maintenance to stay abreast of plant activities that could impact customer order fulfillment.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of plant specific manufacturing capabilities.
• Coordinate with representatives from the design, sales, pricing, and operations department to manage the implementation of new customer items.
• Demonstrates a solid understanding of the business objectives, goals and values of International Paper.
• Make daily decisions that maximize customer satisfaction and plant capacity balancing.
• Solve problems with technical and business acumen, poise, and a sense of urgency.
• Build strong relationships with customer contacts to establish and maintain International Paper’s competitive advantage of providing customers with a world‑class customer experience.
• Establish, manage, and enforce correct order unitization.
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of International Paper’s pricing models including variable contributions levels.
• Demonstrate the ability to coordinate warehoused items using basic manufacturing skills such as replenishment ordering and FIFO (first in – first out).
• Routinely assess and report possible obsolescence concerns of aged inventory.
• Participate in the plant’s NPI (non-price improvement) initiatives especially in the areas of aged inventory, trailer utilization, and operational efficiencies.
• Provide data reporting of orders, sales, and inventory to plant management, sales teams, and customers, as requested.
• Create and manage customer‑specific reporting requirements such as daily status updates, order prioritization, MSF delivery, OTD (on‑time delivery), and warehoused inventory status.
• Coordinate the efforts of internal and external vendors to ensure the correct tooling, artwork, and CADs (computer‑aided design) are approved by the customer and provided to the manufacturing team.
• Consistently demonstrate exceptional administrative, organizational and communication skills.
• Observe and report to plant management and sales teams noteworthy customer concerns or trends.
• Participate in production meetings to ensure that orders are tracked from customer order receipt to final delivery to ensure all production steps and shipping plans satisfy commitment made to customer.
• Research and resolve customer order discrepancies to include customer credits or debits, quality concerns, make‑up orders, and returned/reworked items.
• Ensures customer price lists are accurate and update when required.
• Research and address discrepancies on weekly Accounts Receivable Reporting to ensure correct pricing and timely payments maintained.
• Work independently with minimal oversight.
• Provide forecasts to plant management and sales teams based on customer input and/or historical trends.
• Provide quality assurance checks on technical specifications used for quoting new…