Customer Services Manager

Allied Bakeries; Biggleswade; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus up to 10%

Private Medical Scheme

Pension contributions up to 10%

Hybrid & Flexible work culture

Discounted products

Health Cash Plan

Free Parking

Job summary

Allied Bakeries is seeking a Customer Services Manager to lead a high-performing team responsible for order management, issue resolution, and customer communication. The role focuses on delivering accurate processing of orders, credits, and price changes, while coordinating with Sales, Planning, Logistics, Finance, and 3PL partners.

You will coach the team to improve availability, OTIF performance, forecast accuracy, and proactive service excellence, acting as the voice of the customer within

Qualifications

• Significant customer services management experience in FMCG/Grocery.
• Great operational knowledge of grocery retailers (including international customers).
• Deep understanding of S2C processes.
• Process improvement/automation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing Customer Services team to deliver excellent service and order accuracy.
• Drive OTIF performance and end-to-end service excellence through cross-functional collaboration.
• Monitor KPIs and implement root-cause fixes to reduce repeat issues.
• Coach and develop the team, balancing customer expectations with operational capacity.

Skills

People leadership

Stakeholder management

Technology literacy

Management information

FMCG knowledge

Team leadership

Education

Relevant industry qualification desirable

Tools

Management information systems

Job description

The Customer Services Manager leads a high-performing team that is at the heart of our customer experience, ensuring excellent service, seamless order management, effective issue resolution, and strong customer supply chain collaboration across all customers. Responsible for delivering accurate and efficient processing of customer transactions, including orders, credits and price changes, the role safeguards service levels, drives swift resolution of customer enquiries, and coordinates cross-functional activity across Sales, Planning, Logistics, Finance, Manufacturing and 3PL partners. As a people leader, you will coach and develop the Customer Services team to deliver outstanding service, proactive customer communication, exceptional order accuracy, and continuous performance improvement. Acting as the voice of the customer within the business, you will build strong relationships, balance customer expectations with operational capability, and work collaboratively to improve availability, OTIF performance, forecast accuracy, and end-to-end service excellence., Maintain excellent customer service levels while strengthening order accuracy, communication and issue resolution.

• Improve visibility of customer service KPIs and use insight to drive root cause fixes rather than repeat firefighting.
• Build strong ways of working with Customer Supply Chain teams, Sales, Planning, Logistics, Finance, sites and 3PLs to protect customer availability and trust.
• Develop a capable, resilient and customer-focused team that can support future growth and business change, supported by efficient processes & systems.
• Deliver opportunities to reduce cost to serve in collaboration with Customers.
• Overseeing order capture, order management, allocation, dispatch readiness (including customs compliance), invoice query support and customer communication from order creation through to delivery.
• Monitoring service KPIs including OTIF, order accuracy, case fill, customer complaints, query ageing and customer scorecards, ensuring gaps are understood and mitigated.
• Acting as the senior escalation point for customer service issues, working with Sales, Planning, Logistics, Finance, manufacturing sites and 3PLs to resolve problems quickly and professionally.
• Be Bold: Acts as the voice of the customer in our supply chain - a great communicator and thinks about step-change improvement as well as incremental improvement.
• Be Curious: Pro-actively explores opportunity to improve and has the ability to switch between high-level and detail when required.
• Do the Right Thing Together: Develops high performing teams and welcomes different perspectives, backgrounds and ways of thinking.
• Make it Happen: Turn ideas into action. Keeps momentum - mindful of safe and responsible delivery and is resilient in the face of challenges.
• Will have significant customer services management experience in FMCG/Grocery.
• Great operational knowledge of grocery retailers (including international customers).
• Deep understanding of S2C processes.
• Process improvement/automation skills.
• Team leadership and management experience.
• Proven stakeholder management skills at leadership level.
• Relevant industry qualification desirable.
• Technology savvy and highly literate with management information.
• Attractive Salary
• Bonus Scheme (up to 10%)
• Private Medical Scheme - Individual Cover
• Pension Scheme - up to 10% employer contributions
• Hybrid & Flexible work culture
• Buy holiday scheme
• Discounted products
• Health Cash Plan
• Career opportunities - ABF group employs 128,000 employees worldwide.
• Discounts on over 900 retailers on our discount platform
• Generous family leave policy
• Leadership development
• Group Cycle to work scheme
• Free Parking