Sea Logistics Customer Care Specialist

Kuehne + Nagel AS; Bristol; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Kuehne + Nagel is looking for a Customer Care Specialist who plays a vital role in ensuring exceptional service in freight logistics. Responsibilities include customer interaction, problem-solving, and maintaining service standards, requiring excellent organizational and interpersonal skills. You will join a supportive team in a globally respected logistics firm with strong career advancement opportunities.

Benefits

Contributory pension plan

Employee assistance program for wellbeing

Discounts and recognition through Route 2 Rewards scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in freight forwarding or transport planning focused on Sea Logistics.
• Ability to understand and execute new processes.
• Strong customer quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all requests are carried out to service levels and KPI requirements.
• Document and conduct root cause analysis on deviations.
• Liaise with Sales to onboard new customers.

Skills

Customer service orientation

Organizational skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Tools

MS Office (especially Excel)

Job description

It's more than a job

When you work in Freight Logistics and Operations at Kuehne+Nagel, you play a key role in optimising processes and ensuring that inventory and shipments move efficiently. But that is not all. Your work also helps ensure that vital medicines reach patients on time and supports other essential deliveries, from wind turbines to semiconductors. At Kuehne+Nagel, our contribution counts in more ways than we imagine.

The Customer Care Specialist will be part of a team within the Customer Care Location (CCL) responsible for direct interaction with our customers, proactive customer service, problem solving, customer follow up, interaction with our sales colleagues and equally as important, ensuring that our Operational Care Centres (OCC’s) have all of the necessary information (including systematic information) to be able to execute on our customer behalf. The Customer Care Specialist is responsible for ensuring that our customers experience is a positive one each and every time they engage with Kuehne + Nagel, as well as documenting and investigating any deviations from the expected level of service provided. All of these activities are to be executed via KN Customer Care system.

How you create impact

• Ensure all requests carried out to the pre-set service levels and standard procedures, in a timely manner, in line with the KPI requirements
• Ensure service excellence by leveraging a high level of forwarding and market knowledge
• Document, investigate and conduct root cause analysis on any deviations using KN systems (CoreLog, NPS)
• Closely liaise with Sales owners to ensure the smooth on-boarding of new customers
• Conduct claims management, from reporting through to closure
• Ensure compliance with company, industry and legal standards is adhered to across the function
• Participate in workshops and conference calls as required
• Continuously analyse customer reports to identify areas for improvement system.

What we would like you to bring

• Experience in either freight forwarding or transport planning with key focus on Sea Logistics
• Ability to understand and execute new processes
• Excellent knowledge of MS office features, especially excel
• Strong affinity with required customer quality standards
• Strong customer service orientation
• Excellent organisational skills and strong interpersonal skills

What's in it for you

If you would like to become a valued member of our team, we will make sure that you’re rewarded for your commitment and expertise. You can join the contributory Kuehne+Nagel pension plan and enjoy our Route 2 Rewards scheme, which offers everything from discounts, benefit information, recognition and its own wellbeing centre. We care for our colleagues (and their immediate family) with our employee assistance programme providing access to 24/7 GP, legal and financial advice along with mental health counselling. All of this to help you live a happier and healthier life. As proud holders of the Gold Covenant, we are a forces-friendly employer who recognise the skills, expertise and value service leavers bring to our organisation.

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

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