Freight Forwarding Operations & Customer Service Agent

About the Role

How you will contribute

• Owning, logging & ensuring all daily customer services contacts & queries received via telephone & email are worked through to resolution per strict SLA’s.
• Strong focus on communication and ensuring that any systems/operational issues impacting customer shipments are proactively reported to the relevant syncreon & customer teams and tracked through to resolution.
• Compiling, reviewing and actioning reporting suites for our key account customer and syncreon business per KPI requirements.
• Actioning customer complaints received ensuring that detailed and accurate root cause/corrective actions are implemented, formally documented and submitted to the customer.
• Carrier management including tracking open customer orders through to delivery/return/claim and actioning exceptions as they arise.
• Carrier performance reporting against agreed KPI’s and actioning trends for root cause & corrective actions.
• Participating in weekly carrier & customer task meetings along with monthly reviews & QBR’s.
• Self-billing including compiling and managing all billing activities for all carrier and customer transactions.
• Providing daily/weekly/monthly reporting suite from the syncreon TMS system per required customer & carrier customised reporting requirements.
• Participating in syncreon control tower / customer projects.
• Being the voice of the customer.

Your Key Qualifications

• Fluency in oral & written English is essential.
• 2 years’ work experience in a high tech customer services and logistics’ environment.
• Excellent knowledge of the Microsoft office suite, with proven reporting & presentation skills.
• Responsiveness in dealing with Customer requests.
• Attention to detail for billing, process analysis, customer complaints investigations & reporting activities.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team and assist other team members during peak volume periods
• Experience in carrier network management.