Why you’ll love it here!
- Benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, Tuition Reimbursement, Pet, and Legal Insurance
- 401k
- Community Service Day
- Spotlight Awards
- National Sales Excellence Awards
- CFSP Prep Certification Program
POSITION SUMMARY:
- The Customer & Sales Support Specialist reports to the Manager, Customer & Sales Support
- Located in Cleveland, OH
- Full-Time
- Hybrid
Join our dynamic Sales Support Department as a Customer & Sales Support Specialist. In this role, you'll assist the Business Development (outside sales) team by performing clerical tasks with precision in a fast-paced environment. Your responsibilities include data entry, basic bookkeeping, creating quotes and orders, collaborating with vendors and internal departments, and providing top-notch customer service. Your focus will contribute to profitable revenue growth and effective customer relationship management.
Position Summary/Objective
The Customerand Sales SupportTeam member will provide customer service and sales support to sales representatives and other personnel involved in sales.
Essential Functions& Responsibilities
- Will be a key inside contact for customers with timely and accurate processing of incoming orders and quotation requests via phone, fax,online chator email,ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction
- Supportexternal sales representatives, including maintaining customer base, setting up order guides and pricing, order entry, quoting, monitoring back ordersandsample requests.
- Focus on improving lines per order and increasing profit margin
- Establish and maintain strong positive customer relationships
- provide courteous and efficient servicing of customer requests
- learn key contacts
- ask for the order
- follow up on purchases and address any customer service issues
- Respond to customer literature request including, product information, tracking information, and proof of delivery
- Assist in managingplan for weekly/monthly outbound calls to assigned customers/sales reps to build relationships and orders
- Achieve and maintain high level of product knowledge through product training, reading written materials, and utilizing resources/tools available for support
- Resolve all customer issues/opportunities such as pricing, tracking shipments and/or processing credits
- Support and communicate with all internal departments –Sales, Finance, Warehouse,purchasing– to ensure customers’ requirements are met or exceeded
- Determine customer requirements and expectations in order to recommend specific product solutions via research
- Provide back-up whilesales representativesare on vacation
- Minimal travel may be required from time to time
Competencies, Skillsand Abilities
- Superior customer service attitude with unwavering commitment to the customer, team, and Company
- Clear, concise, and genuine phone presence
- Advancedmath skills
- Ability to prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced and demanding environment
- Sales minded with winning attitude and proven success in developing long term relationships with current account base and new business opportunities
- Strong organizational skills
- Highly motivated and self-directed
- Results oriented team player with a committed effort to meet goal numbers
- High attention to detail
- Strong working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, and Outlook and MS Operating system
- Strong professional work ethicMaintains apositive/calm attitude when handling problemsorthe unexpected
- Demonstrateresourcefulness
Preferred
- Working knowledge ofOracle Systems, CRM platforms
- Working knowledge of Auto-Quotes system
Education & Experience
Essential Education:
Preferred Education:
- Bachelor’s degree
- CFSP Certification
Essential Experience:
- 2+ years customer service experience
Preferred Experience:
- Previous foodservice industry experience
- 2+years sales support environment