Benefits: Paid Time Off (PTO) and 401(k) retirement plan (no employer match)
Job Overview
The Customer Service Manager leads the customer service team and collaborates with cross-functional departments to ensure timely, professional customer support, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain department procedures, workflows, priorities, and performance standards.
- Supervise, train, coach, and evaluate customer service personnel while promoting teamwork and accountability.
- Oversee quotations, customer orders, acknowledgments, pricing, and customer communications.
- Ensure compliance with customer requirements, including ITAR, EAR, DFARS, CUI, and other applicable government or defense-related requirements.
- Review and approve pricing and lead-time recommendations within established guidelines.
- Maintain pricing programs, customer pricing records, and quoting tools.
- Coordinate with Production Control and Operations to confirm lead times, support production schedules, and meet delivery commitments.
- Establish performance goals and monitor employee performance.
- Coordinate customer communications regarding returns (RMAs), corrective actions, quality concerns, and complaints, working with the appropriate internal teams.
- Support sales representatives and distributors with quotations, order updates, customer follow-ups, and pricing coordination.
- Collaborate with Purchasing, Quality, Engineering, Accounting, IT, and Management to resolve customer issues.
- Participate in trade shows, marketing activities, and customer-facing business development initiatives.
- Maintain accurate customer, quotation, pricing, and order records in the MRP system.
- Prepare reports and analyze customer satisfaction data to support continuous improvement.
- Provide backup support to Customer Service Representatives when needed.
- Maintain a professional work environment focused on quality, communication, and employee development.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Customer Service, Operations, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive customer service experience in a manufacturing environment, including supervisory or leadership responsibilities.
- Strong knowledge of customer service operations, quotations, order entry, pricing administration, and MRP documentation.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and manufacturing software systems.
- Understanding of manufacturing processes, production scheduling, and customer requirements.
- Familiarity with CUI handling, NIST SP 800-171, ITAR, EAR, DFARS, and related government or defense requirements.
- Strong leadership, organizational, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
- Ability to read and understand technical documents, customer specifications, and manufacturing-related documentation.
- Experience with JobBOSS or similar manufacturing MRP systems is preferred; CRM experience is also a plus.
- Knowledge of tape-wound cores is strongly preferred.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality, exercise sound judgment, and communicate professionally at all organizational levels.
- Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally and participate in trade shows.
- Openness to constructive feedback and the ability to make appropriate adjustments.
- Paid Time Off (PTO)