Customer Service Manager
Applied Industrial Technologies · Phoenix, AZ · 2 days ago
OTHRFull-time
About the role
As a Customer Service Manager, you will collaborate with customers and our Phoenix team to find products and services, solve customer needs, and build ongoing business relationships. You will manage and lead/participate in day-to-day service center operations, hire, train, and develop service center personnel, manage internal service center operations to meet/exceed P&L objectives, review and complete monthly reports, ensure customer relations are maintained, and use key metrics to evaluate and recommend best practices for operations.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with customers and Phoenix team to find products and services, solve customer needs, and build ongoing business relationships.
- Manage and lead/participate in day-to-day service center operations.
- Hire, train, and develop service center personnel.
- Manage internal service center operations to meet/exceed P&L objectives including inventory, AR / DSO, AP.
- Meet customer and shipment metrics including time to fill, expediting orders, and quoting.
- Review and complete monthly reports as well as overseeing petty cash balancing.
- Ensure that customer relations are maintained at a high level.
- Use key metrics to evaluate and recommend best practices for operations.
Qualifications
- Build a team. Your mission is to meet/exceed sales and profit goals by developing a productive, positive environment where associates want to succeed and grow personally and as a team.
- 2+ years sales or customer service leadership experience in a business-to-business transactional environment. Supervisory/management experience preferred.
- Written and verbal communication skills, including English grammar.
- Computer skills including Excel.
- ERP / SAP experience a plus.
- Analytical skills, inventory management experience preferred.
- Industrial sales/distribution experience a plus.
- Clean driving record/MVR.
Benefits
- Competitive pay including bonus opportunities.
- All the benefits you’d expect from an industry leader (401K, insurance, time off, employee assistance).
- A lasting career – career paths are available in sales, operations, or management throughout the country.
- Professional development, training, and tuition reimbursement.
- Team-oriented company culture where it’s called work for a reason but have fun in the process.
- Great work/life balance.