Job Details
**International Business Customer Service Representative**
Columbia, MD
The International Business Customer Services Representative will report to the Head of International Business with a dotted line to the Logistics Manager. This role will focus on delivering top-of-the-line customer support to Certis Biologicals' international business customers.
Duties and Responsibilities:
* Be the first point of contact for customers sending in new orders or reaching out to Certis Biologicals for inquiries and status updates.
* Maintaining up-to-date price list, payment terms, and packaging requirements for each customer in the system.
* Creating new customer accounts in the ERP, coordinating with finance for all credit check paperwork.
* Ensuring any new orders are in the plant planner's schedule/S&OP master database.
* Coordinating with packaging and labels department to prevent delays/slippages and to highlight any new changes.
* Coordinating with the logistics manager to receive shipment status and be the point of communication with the customers.
* Be the recipient for all web/social media inquiries that then get passed on to all relevant sales/field development persons in the international business team for prompt action.
* Be the internal coordinator for promotional material and samples dispatches/printing/inventory etc.
* Assist the international business managers with data mining from ERP/external sources.
* Comfortable with MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and willing to learn the new ERP system.
Important Personality Attributes For This Role
* Respectful, cheerful, and professional communicator.
* Team player: Ability to seamlessly work with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
* Comfortable working with international customers in over 50 countries.
Requirements
* Strong analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills.
* Highly detail-oriented position with strong organizational abilities.
* Ability to anticipate and analyze problems, document issues, and recommend solutions.
Education/Experience
* High school diploma required
* 2 years of experience in a customer service environment is preferred.
* Bilingual is a plus but not required
The ideal candidate will have leadership, adaptability, and organizational skills with potential for future advancement into positions of greater responsibility for the companys long-term strategic growth.
Position is located at the companys headquarters in the suburban Baltimore/Washington region.
Certis provides health benefits, a 401(k)-retirement plan with company matching contributions, and a performance-based annual bonus opportunity in addition to base salary.
Certis Biologicals is an Equal Opportunity Employer.