Customer Services Representative

The Role

This is a customer service role, focused on ensuring consistent exemplary customer experience is provided to our International customers. Working with the sales team, the Customer Service Representative will through urgency, quality and reliability deliver value to our customers in need of access to medicines on a global scale enabling Durbin, Part of the Uniphar Group to become the number 1 supplier of choice for International Sales/Exports via our UK Head office.

• Supporting the sales team to provide a best-in-class customer experience, while aligning to business strategies and objectives with a focus on maximising value within Key Markets
• Ensure customer orders are managed appropriately within specified SLA.
• Establish a working relationship with the Procurement and sales teams. Monitor backorders and track shipments where required so we can ensure high customer service expectations are met.
• Collaborating with Internally divisions to ensure all relevant paperwork and documentation is in place to comply with GDP practices whilst supporting and driving all regulations in force relating to the supply of medicines and medical devices.
• Supporting product set up’s on ASC, following guidelines on product set up’s, and managing master data.
• Support on setting up new customers including annual validation, following through with QA and Finance.
• Any other duties that may arise relating to the support of the account managers to drive growth and profitability.

• Support the sales team in achieving performance against agreed budgetary targets.
• Ensure all customer details are up to date across the company systems.

• An understanding of the domestic supply and UK importation of unlicensed medication.
• Prolific IT skills (MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint etc).
• 3 years minimum experience in a customer facing/service role.

• Positive can-do attitude.
• Ability to work on own initiative.
• Communicates in a professional manner and effectively manages customer liaison.
• Works well within a team, flexible and willing to share the workload both ways.
• Demonstrates ambition and initiative in their work.
• Open to change in a fast-moving industry and to new learning.
• Be results orientated to achievement of team budget.
• Be supportive of colleagues in a team environment.
• Should adhere to the service values of Durbin On Demand.
• Excellent communications skills including verbal, written and presentational.
• Ability to learn new business processes and operate training provided on new IT applications.

This role will be based in our office in Hayes where a flexible hybrid working model is also available. It’s important to achieve the right balance between face-to-face interactions with virtual working over the long term. Moreover, there will be flexibility required to interact with colleagues (i.e., it’s not a "9 to 5" type of job). In return for your flexibility, you will be joining an environment that understands how inter-twined work and life have become - and both the benefits and challenges that brings - and therefore offers a flexible, progressive way of supporting it.

If you believe that you meet most of the criteria above, we encourage you to apply. We are an equal opportunities employer and will ensure any reasonable accommodations are implemented.

With a workforce of more than 3000 employees spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA, and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and Med Tech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines around the world. Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco‑medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting‑edge digital technology and our highly expert teams.

Uniphar is organised into three key divisions:
Supply Chain Retail & On Demand, Uniphar Med Tech and Uniphar Pharma.

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