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Sea Logistics Customer Care Manager, Key Accounts

Kuehne+Nagel · Jersey City, NJ · 4 days ago
On-siteCustomer Service$90k–$110k/yrFull-time

About the role

The Healthcare Sea Logistics Customer Care Manager plays a key role in transporting goods, optimizing processes, and fulfilling customer promises. This role focuses on healthcare and perishable accounts, ensuring a high-touch, compliant, and consistent customer experience.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the dedicated customer-facing owner for assigned healthcare & perishable accounts, ensuring a high-touch, compliant, and consistent customer experience.
  • Build strong relationships with customers and ensure proactive, high-touch communication.
  • Advocate for customers internally, managing escalations from identification through resolution while ensuring service commitments are met.
  • Support healthcare compliance requirements, customer SOPs, and GxP standards by partnering with operations and escalating risks when needed.
  • Collaborate with operations, sales, billing, implementation, overseas teams, and claims stakeholders to deliver a seamless customer experience.
  • Maintain customer performance, monitor shipment exceptions, KPIs, and service issues; identify root causes and drive corrective actions.
  • Assist with Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), customer performance reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Identify customer risks, service gaps, and growth opportunities, partnering with sales teams to support retention and account growth.
  • Lead Hyper-Care activities, including daily customer communications, shipment oversight, issue resolution, escalation management, and progress updates to customers, sales teams, and senior leadership.
  • Utilize operational data and performance metrics to provide transparent updates and demonstrate progress on corrective actions.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of Sea Logistics experience, with a strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain operations, preferably supporting healthcare, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or other highly regulated industries.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • Proven customer-facing experience with the ability to build trusted relationships and deliver exceptional service for strategic accounts.
  • Knowledge of healthcare logistics requirements, including compliance standards, SOP adherence, temperature-sensitive shipments, and critical customer service expectations.
  • Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and adapt to changing customer demands.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving abilities with a proactive, customer-centric approach.
  • Able to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders across global regions and multiple time zones.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Experience using business intelligence and reporting tools such as Tableau, with the ability to leverage data and analytics to drive performance improvements and customer insights.
  • Familiarity with EDI/API integrations preferred.

Qualifications

  • Currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without the need for current or future employer sponsorship.

Skills

  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Healthcare Logistics
  • Compliance Standards
  • Project Management
  • Communication Skills
  • Problem Solving
  • Collaboration
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • Data Analysis
  • EDI/API Integrations

Benefits

  • Competitive Total Rewards Package
  • Health and Welfare Benefits
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Incentive Compensation

Pay

The target salary range for this position is between $90,000 and $110,000. Base salary is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles.

Schedule

Full-time position.

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