Customer Care Supervisor

Customer Care Supervisor – MiSUMi

MISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions. By integrating a vast catalog of components with a world-class digital manufacturing platform, MISUMI Americas empowers engineers and procurement teams to accelerate innovation across the entire product lifecycle. With operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago, the company serves as a vital partner for the most innovative companies in the Americas.

MISUMI exists to empower engineers and innovators to build the future.

MISUMI (the parent company of Fictiv) is a global leader in configurable mechanical components and manufacturing solutions. Through advanced technology, operational excellence, and a relentless focus on customer satisfaction, MISUMI supports customers from prototype through production with speed, precision, and reliability.

With a global footprint and deep manufacturing expertise, we are committed to delivering fast, accurate, and seamless service that enables our customers to move at the speed of innovation.

Job Description

Are you passionate about delivering exceptional customer experiences in a fast-paced, high-performance environment? Do you thrive on accuracy, responsiveness, and solving problems in real time?

This position manages day-to-day activities of the MISUMI Americas Customer Care team within the Customer Service department. The daily challenges and responsibilities are aimed at ensuring team and individual KPIs are achieved, and internal and external customers' needs are met / exceeded. The Customer Care Supervisor provides guidance and direction to his assigned team of Customer Care Specialists, and works cross functionally as necessary, serving as a subject matter expert on CS processes, policies and systems.

The Supervisor collaborates with MISUMI Americas (MISUMI and Fictiv) cross-functional teams, Japan Headquarters and Misumi Group subsidiaries.

The position is responsible for highly visible deliverables that impact customer satisfaction, key performance indicators (KPI) and key success factors (KSF), such as productivity, turnaround time, attrition, digital ratios and employee retention

What You Will Be Doing

• Supervise a team of 8–15+ Customer Care Specialists, manage daily operations of the customer care team and ensure completion of daily activities within agreed Service Level Agreement timeframe.
• Ensure Team compliance with company's and department's policies, notably attendance, timesheet entry and overall Customer Service SOPs.
• Clearly communicate on individual goals and performance expectations and deliver weekly performance scorecards to team members, set up coaching sessions to ensure that each member achieves expected performance levels.
• Build development plans for each team member as needed, identifying skill gaps, creating growth opportunities, and actively coaching them to accelerate each individual's potential.
• Create and maintain a positive, customer-centric departmental culture that recognizes individuals' work quality, performance, continuous improvement and personal development.
• Serve as the first line of escalation for your team: step in on complex issues, difficult customer situations, or cross-functional blockers as needed.
• Partner with CS Planning team and CS leadership team for the purposes of data collection, report generation, operation analysis, policy and process improvements and strategy implementation.
• Actively work to achieve CS department goals and global KPIs and ensure the CS team meets or exceeds customer requirements and expectations of response time and accuracy.
• Identify areas within the CS team which need updating or improving, often working in cooperation with other departments Procurement, IT, Sales, Accounting, etc.
• Work with CS team to maintain high moral and low attrition in deploying the department long term strategy in areas of team structure, budgetary needs and process improvement.
• Partner with CS trainers on training needs for CS team with clear ROI and time frames.
• Be prepared to assemble and deliver presentations to all levels of the organization to…