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Senior Manager, Customer Service (US)

BIC · Norwalk, CT · 3 wk ago
HybridFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections only if there is real specific content. Use

for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. We need to include sections that have content. From posting: There's an introductory paragraph about BIC World, then description of role. Likely "About the role" could be the intro paragraph(s). Then responsibilities: "What You'll Do" sections. Then requirements: "What You'll Need" includes Education, Experience, Skills & Capabilities. Could split into Requirements (Education, Experience) and Skills (Skills & Capabilities). Qualifications maybe similar to Requirements? But we should not create thin sections. We need to decide which sections have substantive content. We have: About the role (intro). Responsibilities (What You'll Do). Requirements (Education, Experience). Skills (Skills & Capabilities). Benefits? Not mentioned except maybe hybrid work model and new headquarters location. There's mention: "BIC’s NAM headquarters will be located in Norwalk, Connecticut. Scheduled to open in 2027, the new headquarters is designed to foster a collaborative, flexible, and modern work environment while supporting a hybrid work model." That's a benefit/location detail. Could be placed under Benefits? But Benefits section should be only if posting actually states them. It does mention hybrid work model and location; could be considered a benefit. However guidelines: Prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine location/hybrid under About the role or maybe a separate "Benefits" if we have enough content. There's no explicit benefits like health insurance, etc. So maybe not create Benefits. Pay: not mentioned. Schedule: not mentioned (no explicit schedule). So omit Pay and Schedule. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, etc. Remove those paragraphs. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from the posting, but we can format them into sections. We must not repeat job title as heading. The job title is "Senior Manager, US Customer Service". Not to be used as heading. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's extract content: Intro paragraph: "Join BIC World, a community of brands dedicated to creating ingeniously simple and joyful products that have been part of hearts and homes for over 75 years. We are committed to growing our iconic and innovative brands by reimagining everyday essentials in new, sustainable, and responsible ways. Our culture encourages a "roll up your sleeves and get the job done" mindset, ensuring self-starters, problem solvers, and innovative thinkers can truly thrive. At BIC World, you are empowered to take ownership of your career and use your unique perspective to make a meaningful, global impact on our mission." Then role description: "As the Senior Manager, US Customer Service, you will lead the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of Customer Care, Customer Fulfillment, and Customer Compliance for BIC's largest market, representing more than $850 million in annual revenue. You will serve as the primary Supply Chain partner to the U.S. Commercial organization, ensuring an exceptional customer experience while optimizing the end-to-end Order-to-Cash process. This is a highly visible leadership role that balances strategic thinking with operational excellence. You will lead a high-performing organization, champion transformation initiatives, strengthen cross-functional partnerships, and drive performance improvements that enhance customer satisfaction, reduce costs, and enable profitable growth." Then "What You'll Do" with bullet points (but in prose). We need to convert to
  • . The bullet points are separated by line breaks? Actually they are sentences with line breaks? Let's parse: "What You'll Do Lead Customer Service Strategy & Operational Excellence Develop and execute the U.S. Customer Service strategy aligned with Commercial and Supply Chain priorities. Lead Customer Care, Customer Fulfillment, and Customer Compliance teams to deliver best-in-class service. Drive continuous improvement across the Order-to-Cash process to improve OTIF performance, increase service levels, reduce customer penalties, and improve operational efficiency. Establish KPIs, governance, and accountability to consistently achieve customer service and financial objectives. Lead customer service transformation initiatives including organizational design, capability development, process optimization, digital enablement, and evaluation of insourcing and outsourcing opportunities. Partner Across the Business to Deliver Results Serve as the strategic Customer Service leader and primary Supply Chain business partner to the U.S. Commercial organization. Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Planning, Logistics, Finance, IT, Manufacturing, and key customers to resolve complex business challenges. Lead Quarterly Business Reviews, Joint Business Planning sessions, and executive customer engagements. Build strong partnerships with third-party logistics providers and external service partners to drive operational excellence and contractual performance. Develop People & Drive Organizational Capability Build, coach, and develop a high-performing Customer Service organization through talent development, succession planning, performance management, and employee engagement. Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and customer-centric decision making. Lead organizational change initiatives, including ERP, WMS, TMS, and other supply chain technology implementations. Manage departmental budgets while identifying opportunities to improve productivity and control operating costs." We can treat each line as a list item. But some lines are headings within responsibilities (Lead Customer Service Strategy & Operational Excellence, Partner Across the Business to Deliver Results, Develop People & Drive Organizational Capability). Those could be subheadings but we are only allowed to use

    for section headings; we could keep them as or just as list items? The instruction: Use

    for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use
    • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

      for prose. So we should not use

      for subheadings inside responsibilities; we should treat them as part of list items maybe with bold? But we cannot add arbitrary tags besides those? The instruction didn't forbid other tags, but we should follow the pattern: use
      • for list. Could embed inside
      • . That's okay. Thus responsibilities section:

        Responsibilities

        then
        • ... each bullet. Now Requirements: Education and Experience. Could be separate sub-sections? We could combine into one Requirements section with list items for Education and Experience. Or we could have Requirements (Education, Experience) and Skills separate. Education: "Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations Management, Logistics, or a related field required. Master's degree preferred." Experience: "10–12 years of progressive leadership experience in Customer Service, Supply Chain, Logistics, or Customer Operations. Experience within a Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) organization required. Demonstrated success leading customer service organizations supporting national retail customers. Experience leading cross-functional transformation and continuous improvement initiatives. Experience managing third-party logistics providers and customer operations. Proven track record of developing high-performing teams." We can list each as
        • . Skills & Capabilities: list items. Now we also have "What Success Looks Like" paragraph. That could be part of Responsibilities or maybe a separate section like "Success Metrics"? Not in allowed headings. Could incorporate into Responsibilities as prose? But we have a list for responsibilities; we could add a

          after list for success metrics. Or we could treat as part of Responsibilities as prose. The instruction: Use

          for prose. So we can have a

          after the

            for that section. Also there is location/hybrid work model: "BIC’s NAM headquarters will be located in Norwalk, Connecticut. Scheduled to open in 2027, the new headquarters is designed to foster a collaborative, flexible, and modern work environment while supporting a hybrid work model." This could be placed under About the role as prose. We must not include EEO boilerplate etc. Now construct HTML: maybe not needed; just output fragments. We'll have:

            About the role

            Join BIC World, a community of brands dedicated to creating ingeniously simple and joyful products that have been part of hearts and homes for over 75 years. We are committed to growing our iconic and innovative brands by reimagining everyday essentials in new, sustainable, and responsible ways. Our culture encourages a "roll up your sleeves and get the job done" mindset, ensuring self-starters, problem solvers, and innovative thinkers can truly thrive. At BIC World, you are empowered to take ownership of your career and use your unique perspective to make a meaningful, global impact on our mission. As the Senior Manager, US Customer Service, you will lead the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of Customer Care, Customer Fulfillment, and Customer Compliance for BIC's largest market, representing more than $850 million in annual revenue. You will serve as the primary Supply Chain partner to the U.S. Commercial organization, ensuring an exceptional customer experience while optimizing the end-to-end Order-to-Cash process. This is a highly visible leadership role that balances strategic thinking with operational excellence. You will lead a high-performing organization, champion transformation initiatives, strengthen cross-functional partnerships, and drive performance improvements that enhance customer satisfaction, reduce costs, and enable profitable growth. BIC’s NAM headquarters will be located in Norwalk, Connecticut. Scheduled to open in 2027, the new headquarters is designed to foster a collaborative, flexible, and modern work environment while supporting a hybrid work model.

            Then Responsibilities:

            Responsibilities

            • Lead Customer Service Strategy & Operational Excellence
              • Develop and execute the U.S. Customer Service strategy aligned with Commercial and Supply Chain priorities.
              • Lead Customer Care, Customer Fulfillment, and Customer Compliance teams to deliver best-in-class service.
              • Drive continuous improvement across the Order-to-Cash process to improve OTIF performance, increase service levels, reduce customer penalties, and improve operational efficiency.
              • Establish KPIs, governance, and accountability to consistently achieve customer service and financial objectives.
              • Lead customer service transformation initiatives including organizational design, capability development, process optimization, digital enablement, and evaluation of insourcing and outsourcing opportunities.
            • Partner Across the Business to Deliver Results
              • Serve as the strategic Customer Service leader and primary Supply Chain business partner to the U.S. Commercial organization.
              • Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Planning, Logistics, Finance, IT, Manufacturing, and key customers to resolve complex business challenges.
              • Lead Quarterly Business Reviews, Joint Business Planning sessions, and executive customer engagements.
              • Build strong partnerships with third-party logistics providers and external service partners to drive operational excellence and contractual performance.
            • Develop People & Drive Organizational Capability
              • Build, coach, and develop a high-performing Customer Service organization through talent development, succession planning, performance management, and employee engagement.
              • Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and customer-centric decision making.
              • Lead organizational change initiatives, including ERP, WMS, TMS, and other supply chain technology implementations.
              • Manage departmental budgets while identifying opportunities to improve productivity and control operating costs.
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              inside
            • . That's okay but maybe we should keep flat list. The instruction: Use
              • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. It didn't forbid nested lists. Could be okay. However to keep simple, we could just have flat list items each starting with the heading bolded. Eg:
              • Lead Customer Service Strategy & Operational Excellence – Develop and execute ...
              • But we need to preserve all detail; we can keep the heading as part of the item. Simplify: flat list with each duty as separate

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