Team Lead, Client Relationship Manager

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Main Purpose: To provide a consistently high level of service to a customer through the provision of a dedicated central point of contact for Service Management and problem resolution.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop excellent working relationships and communicate courteously with the customer to influence the achievement and maintenance of service performance and encourage new business with existing clients.
• Advise customer on latest booking times and documentation required. Booking and processing shipment requests within Marken's internal database and generating and verifying shipping documentation.
• Manage and mentor any Customer Service agent direct reports ensuring compliance within day to day activities.
• Answer and deal with general telephone and e-mail requests from external customers and internal offices/agents.
• Work in a cross-functional capacity to ensure the activities related to various entities fit with customer requirements and Marken Network Guidelines, policies and procedures.
• Manage special requests from the customer for increased and enhanced levels of service or monitoring of shipment progress.
• Manage and find resolution with any internal/external client reported complaints, closing out assigned CAPAs in an efficient and time-critical manner. Escalating as and when necessary to the Branch Manager and Regional Director.
• Work with all departments to develop and implement solutions for new business requirements in accordance with Marken Guidelines.
• Attend meetings with the client as deemed necessary to discuss account status and relevant service issues and concerns.
• Be commercially aware, dealing with internal and external customers to increase business profitability.
• Ensure a good level of understanding and knowledge of the Marken organization, products and services, ensuring that customer queries can be dealt with accurately and appropriately.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with all internal departments and work as part of a team.
• Contribute to development and implementation of global and regional regulatory functions for clinical trial supplies.
• Evaluate and understand the process for the distribution of Clinical Trial Supplies from the approval to ship process to final delivery.
• Proactively track and trace shipments, monitoring all inbound and outbound shipments on a daily basis to ensure that shipments are delivered within agreed time frames delegating and monitoring activity as necessary.
• Identify weak shipping routes in terms of service expectation and profitability.
• Presto Champion for Branch (if applicable).

Requirements:

• Experience of Courier or Freight Industry.
• Understanding of Aviation/Airline Networks desired.
• PC/System Literate.
• Ability to deal with enquiries and day to day issues.
• Working with key decision makers.
• Able to influence others to ensure business targets are met.
• Working within a busy environment.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent problem solving and prioritization skills essential.
• Excellent teamwork skills.
• Flexibility in working hours required.
• Weekend coverage, ability to handle shift work required in Customer Services.

Employee Type: Permanent

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