POSITION SUMMARY
The Account Coordinator is responsible for delivering a quality customer experience, building customer relationships, and managing process execution for existing C.H. Robinson customers. This role will partner with operations, supply, and/orcapacity resources as an active member of an account team to ensure the customer's business/freight moves as planned and takes actions to resolve exceptions when they occur.They will leverage our processes and technology to drive efficiency. This position is aligned to a portfolio of customers. As a critical customer support contact, the Account Coordinator ensures customer commitments are met, resolves issues, drives continuous improvement, and articulates customer value.
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The Account Coordinator role will develop your business knowledge, sales acumen, and the foundational skills to enable a flexible career path in a variety of critical customer-oriented roles at CH Robinson.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The duties and responsibilities of this position consist of, but are not limited to, the following:
Customer Service:
- Establishes contacts and builds relationships with customers to understand the customer's needs
- Communicates proactively with customers, carriers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to ensure customer needs are met
- Manages conflict and navigates difficult conversations with the customer using tact and diplomacy
- Responds to customer inquiries and provides updates related to exception management in a timely manner
- Ensures quality execution against expectations, identifiesissues, and implements solutions Reviews internal and customer data inclusive of customer aligned KPIs for quality and accuracy
- Empowered to execute the customer pricing strategy set by account management team focused on capturing profitable market share
- Grows the business by listening to customers' needs, communicating opportunity to Account Management, and providing key customer specific knowledge to influence results
Process Efficiency:
- Leverages available tools and resources to implement efficiencies
- Learns and applies knowledge of best practices to maintain consistency and gain efficiencies across the network
- Utilizes data/reporting to identify and improve service results in order to meet customer expectations
- Partners with internal resources to ensure account processes and SOPs are complete and adhered to
- Site Specific: Minimizes manual processes when possible without diminishing customer value
Execution:
- Leverages technology for order statuses and initiates corrective action when exceptions occur (verifying pricing, weights, delivery times, ship quantities, load information, etc.)
- Executes customer workflows, preferences and SOPs and applies this knowledge to create efficient, cost effective solutions for the customer
- Provides ongoing issue resolution through communication with the customer and offers options and alternative solutions in a timely manner
- Collaborates with operations teams to effectively standardize tasks
- Leverages operations teams to execute process effectively and efficiently
- Performs non-standardized operational work as needed to ensure a high-level customer experience
- Site Specific: Owns results of assigned area of responsibility
- Other duties or responsibilities as assigned according to the team and/or country specific requirements
QUALIFICATIONS
Required:
- High School Diploma or GED
- Site Specific: Fluent in Spanish and English (written and verbal)
Preferred:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
- Customer Service experience
- Site specific: previous industry experience
- Attention to detail, accuracy, and problem solving
- Basic proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite of programs
- Values a diverse and inclusive work environment
CH Robinson is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, or disability.
Benefits
We offer a competitive benefits plan above the Mexican Labor Law. This includes life and medical insurance, a Wealth Accumulation Plan (Plan de Pensiones), an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and among others, the opportunity to prosper in a Fortune 500 company.
Why Do You Belong at C.H. Robinson?
C.H. Robinson solves logistics problems for companies across the globe and across industries, from the simple to the most complex. With $22 billion in freight under management and 19 million shipments annually, we are one of the world's largest logistics platforms and rank in the FORTUNE 200. We've been an innovator in logistics for over 100 years. Our global suite of services accelerates trade to seamlessly deliver the products and goods that drive the world's economy. With the combination of our multimodal transportation management system and expertise, we use our information advantage to deliver smarter solutions for more than 90,000 customers and 450,000 contract carriers on our platform. Our technology is built by and for supply chain experts to bring faster, more meaningful improvements to our customers' businesses.
As a responsible global citizen, we contribute millions of dollars to support causes that matter to us and our people. FORTUNE has named C.H. Robinson one of the World's Most Admired Companies 2024, showcasing our position as a leader in our industry. Our commitment to excellence is further affirmed by being named a Great Place to Work 2023-24 by the Great Place to Work Institute, one of Forbes' Best Employers for Diversity and one of America's Greatest Workplaces in 2023 by Newsweek. Join us as we collaborate, innovate, and work as one global team to make life better and more sustainable for our customers, communities, and world. For more information, visit us at www.chrobinson.com.
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