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Account Manager, Service - Exports

Rex Materials Group

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Buffalo, NY
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Job Overview:

Job Requirements

Alkegen has an exciting opportunity for a Customer Service Representative to join our Commercial Excellence team. If you have strong oral and written communication skills and enjoy building rapport and relationships, apply today! The work hours for this role are Monday-Friday 8 AM to 5 PM ET.

Why work for us?

Alkegen is an innovation-driven leader focused on battery technologies, filtration media, and specialty insulation and sealing materials. Through global reach and breakthrough inventions, we’re delivering products that enable the world to breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before.

With over 60 manufacturing facilities with a global workforce of over 9,000 of the industry’s most experienced talent, including insulation and filtration experts, Alkegen is uniquely positioned to help customers impact the environment in meaningful ways.

Alkegen offers a range of dynamic career opportunities with globe-spanning reach. From production operators to engineers, technicians to specialists, sales to leadership, we’re always looking for top talent ready to bring their best. Come grow with us!

Job Description Summary

The Account Manager, Service acts as the liaison between external and internal customers, Commercial, internal warehouses & manufacturing groups. The Account Manager is responsible for managing customer and intercompany export orders. The Account Manager must resolve problem areas expeditiously and is responsible for providing a prompt and professional level of customer service.

Responsibilities:

  • Receives and processes customer and intercompany orders, inquiries covering items or products ordered.

  • Maintains an ongoing relationship with assigned customers, Alkegen plants, and commercial partners.

  • Responsible for ensuring that the order has been entered correctly and that the customer has received acknowledgment with a realistic delivery date.

  • Provides standard pricing and quoting, product availability, and schedule information within established guidelines.

  • May be responsible for checking prices and validating configurations.

  • Serves as communication link between customers and commercial to assure responsiveness.

  • Tracks order activity and alerts appropriate stakeholders of any potential delivery problems. Partners with Logistics to expedite delivery of selected orders.

  • Responsible for slotting order deliveries into the production schedule and communicating changes in demand or requested delivery dates.

  • Uses knowledge of products, product availability, sales territories, and individual customers to provide a key communications link to the customer.

  • Maintain a high level of customer service as reflected by a low number of customer complaints.

  • Work closely with Production Control, Purchasing, SIOPS, and Shipping to ensure our customers’ needs are being met.

  • Will need to have basic knowledge of export order processing including ocean and air export shipment regulations and familiarity with USMCA and other free trade agreements.

  • Build and Schedule container loads for ocean exports using MaxLoad program. Then track ocean exports and provide Alkegen plants with updates.

  • Review and maintain Alkegen sites safety stock to prevent possible air shipments.

Qualifications:

  • High School Diploma required. Associate's or Bachelor's degree in relevant field preferred

  • A minimum of 2-5 years of customer service experience in an office setting is required.

  • Manufacturing company experience preferred

  • Preferred working knowledge of US trade compliance including import and export compliance, ITAR, USMCA, Other free trade agreements, Made in the USA rules, Harmonized tariff rules

  • Must have excellent organizational and communication skills and strong detail orientation

  • Capable of handling multiple priorities and adapting to change with ease

  • Willing to take on additional tasks and work effectively on a team

  • Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel required, knowledge of SAP preferred

  • Ability to rotate with other CSR's to provide holiday coverage

If you are interested in being part of a world class Customer Service function at Alkegen, we would love to hear from you!

At Alkegen, we strive every day to help people – ALL PEOPLE – breathe easier, live greener and go further than ever before. We believe that diversity and inclusion is central to this mission and to our impact. Our diverse and inclusive culture drives our growth & innovation and we nurture it by actively embracing our differences and using our varied perspectives to solve the complex challenges facing our changing and diverse world.

Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, nation of origin, religion, color, gender identity and expression, age, disability, education, opinions, culture, languages spoken, veteran’s status, or any other protected class.

Pay range: $17.32 - $27.87