
Customer Service & Retail Operations Manager
- Göteborg
- Permanent
- Heltid
- Manage the Customer Service department for Sweden to ensure customer needs are answered effectively in a timely manner.
- Answer calls regarding FGXI products, services, retailers, fixtures, promotions, projects, accounts, and provide appropriate responses to all inquiries
- Appropriately respond to customer and account complaints via phone or email relative to orders, products, or services and determine the required action to effectively address the call and ensure satisfaction
- Tactfully deescalate and calmly handle confrontational or stressful interactions with the customers from any of our accounts, end users, and field service reps
- Determine customer service requirements by maintaining contact with customers; benchmarking best practices, running reports, analyzing information and applications
- Assist customers in determining the types of products or services that best meet their needs by providing an overview of FGXI products and services offered and generating sales leads
- Keep records of customer/field service interactions and transactions by detailing inquiries, complaints, and comments, as well as actions taken
- Process customer orders, maintain customer accounts, implement changes to existing accounts, files, documents, and other paperwork
- Partner with the Field Service and Retail Operations Teams to effectively plan and track compliance on customer projects as it relates to new product rollouts, product resets, and markdowns for key customers.
- Collaborate with the Field Service Team on project execution and the resolution of any product and/or fixture requests.
- Solve operational and store level problems to maintain the operational standards established with the customer.
- Works collaboratively with internal customers to obtain pricing and shipping information while coordinating product availability with customer needs.
- Achieve project and financial goals by managing the overall order process.
- The roles and responsibilities may evolve as business needs arise
- Associate degree required, Bachelor's degree preferred.
- 6 - 8 years of retail/customer service management experience.
- People management preferred as there is a small team to manage.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced corporate environment with the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external customers.
- Strong project management and customer skills, with a sense of ownership.
- Strong communication and organizational skills to facilitate coordination and execution of all account projects.
- Strong business partnering skills to develop relationships with other departments (finance, logistics etc).
- Autonomous, with strong ability to work effectively in multi-cultural, geographically dispersed, virtual teams.
- Influencing skills and project management experience in a matrix and complex organization, covering multi-region scope
- Strong leadership and excellent communication skills
- Experience in process optimisation
- Fluent in English and Swedish