Customer Support Specialist

Principal Function: The Customer Support Specialist is responsible for providing customer service support, troubling shooting customer issues, utilizing service knowledge to drive recommendations, and escalates issues as necessary.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Delivers the customer experience strategy across a range of touch points, channels, services, and solutions.
• Proposes changes to improve the customer experience.
• Answers questions regarding accounts and services.
• Ensures compliance with customer Service Level Agreement (SLAs).
• Tracks repeated customer service issues and notifies various teams who can resolve these issues and improve the quality of services and the customer experience.
• Surveys customers to ensure their issues have been resolved in a satisfactory manner.
• Enters and tracks service orders and ensures account information and recorded data is accurate.
• Oversees assigned customer invoicing, including escalating issues as necessary for timely resolution.
• Interviews customers to obtain information and explain available services.
• Solicits interest of new or additional services; handoffs information to appropriate sales representative.
• Coordinates with Sales Department to onboard new customers.
• Assists team members with monitoring route performance metrics and measurements.
• Assists team members to launch new or revised routes and work with our team to assist with our ON Demand Services as required.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has no employee supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty according to the requirements of NOW Courier. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.

Education and/or Experience: Associate’s Degree (A.A.) or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school; and two years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Previous experience working in the logistics and distribution industry is desired.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Highly organized and detail oriented.
• Resourceful and creative.
• Analytical skills and problem-solving ability.
• Ability to adhere to time and attendance policies.
• Must exhibit professionalism and be effective working with customers, contractors, vendors, and employees.
• Skillfully convey information on a wide range of topics to a diverse target audience.
• Influencing and consultative skills are critical.
• Proficient with commonly used office software, including but not limited to: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, as well as telephone and internet communications.
• Ability to be assessable to contractors and employees as determined by department standards.
• Ability to handle confidential information.
• Maintain regular and punctual attendance.
• Effective prioritization and time management skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure, deadline driven environment.
• Strong initiative to strive for continuous accuracy, quality, and timeliness of information.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships through strong interpersonal skills with emphasis on relationship-building and consistent demonstration of solid professional judgement.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously.
• A genuine commitment to quality on behalf of the company while building a corporate culture committed to excellence is mandatory.
• Must have and maintain a verifiable Driver’s License, demonstrated safe driving record, and remain insurable through the company’s liability insurance carrier as applicable.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently will stand; walk; and lift and/or move up to 50 pounds without an assistive device (greater weights may be required with the use of an assistive device). The employee occasionally will cli