Customer Supply Chain Coordinator

Socket.dev; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off from day one

Education Reimbursement

Retirement plans

Insurance coverage

Job summary

Lactalis USA is hiring a Customer Supply Chain Coordinator to lead order fulfillment and customer service for the sales organization. You will ensure orders are processed, shipped, and invoiced, acting as the primary liaison between sales, brokers, distributors, customers and internal teams.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in a related field and at least 1 year of supply chain experience in a customer service context, with strong communication and problem‑solving skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, or related field required.
• 1+ years of supply chain experience in a customer service environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with cross-functional collaboration.
• Demonstrated critical thinking, problem solving and continuous improvement abilities.
• ERP experience, preferably SAP; proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end order-to-cash process for assigned accounts.
• Own ordering, fulfillment and invoicing data including ERP entries and shipping data.
• Ensure timely invoice releases and detect price or quantity discrepancies.
• Serve as liaison between customer, supply chain, and sales on orders and service issues.
• Provide solutions based on customer initiatives and coordinate ERP maintenance and audits.
• Communicate daily with Buyers about late deliveries and order changes.
• Collaborate with Warehouse and Transportation teams to resolve issues.
• Monitor replenishment scorecards and drive improvements in delivery performance.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Collaboration across functions

Problem solving

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Business, or related field

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

Job description

Description

Ready for more than just a job? Build a career with purpose.

At Lactalis in the USA, we’re committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive—whether you’re just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

From your PASSION to ours

The Customer Supply Chain Coordinator is accountable for leading all order fulfillment activities to offer customer service support to the company’s sales efforts. This role will be responsible for ensuring customer orders are processed, shipped and invoiced. The Customer Supply Chain Coordinator will serve as the primary liaison between sales personnel, brokers, distributors, customers and various departments and functions to investigate, resolve and respond to issues and questions. This critical role requires interpersonal and problem solving abilities as well as a process orientation to facilitate resolution to both short term and long term service issues

From your STORY to ours

• Manages the full end-to-end order to cash business cycle.
• Ownership of ordering, fulfillment and invoice process including all EDI or manual entries of order data, shipment data and carrier delivery data
• Ensuring release of invoice for timely billing
• Resolving all conflicts with orders, including quantity discrepancies, quality lot information for traceability and pricing issues
• Serve as the interface between the customer, supply chain and sales on order fulfillment and service-related matters Enable support tasks, including efficient, accurate order processing & fulfillment of an assigned account base and serve as a liaison between the customer, outside sales, and internal departments
• Offer solutions to assigned customer accounts based upon specific customer initiatives
• Ensure processes and procedures are in place and executed for ERP maintenance, error reports review/action as well as audit of customer pricing expectations
• Proactively communicate to Buyers daily late deliveries, product cuts, order changes,
• Collaborate with Warehouse & Transportation team members in resolving issues and communicating to appropriate parties
• Support customer and sales teams with issue resolution
• Analyze existing order fulfillment processes for efficiency opportunity improvements
• Monitor customer replenishment scorecard and collaborate to drive improvement
• Ensure accurate and on time delivery performance as measured by Lactalis and customer defined metrics
• Coordinate day to day issue resolution of out of stocks, warehouse issues, carrier’s issues or customer order changes

Requirements

From your EXPERTISE to ours

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Business, or a related field
• 1+ years of Supply Chain Experience in a customer service environment
• Strong communication and inter-personal skills. Ability to collaborate across functions as well as outside the organization with customers and service providers
• Demonstrated strengths in critical thinking, problem solving, issue resolution, and continuous improvement
• ERP experiences, preferably SAP
• Microsoft Office Suite of systems
• Consumer Package Goods experience preferred

At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities. Further, any division of the Company that is an Affi …