Customer Care Manager at HReade Nigeria

 HReade Nigeria - The most invaluable asset in an organization is its people. Our goal at HReade is to provide solutions and consultancy services on how organizations can fully utilize their human capital to ensure that their strategic goals and objectives are met.

We are recruiting to fill the following position:

Job Title: Customer Care Manager

Location: Lagos
Division/Department: Operations

Responsibilities

• Reports to the Head, Operations
• The Customer Care Manager’s key responsibility is to develop and implement strategic plans to improve customer service and the organization's revenue using knowledge of products, systems, processes and procedures.
• Operationally, he/she is responsible for ensuring the highest level of customer service to both internal and external customers (dealers, transporters, industrial customers) on day-to-day activities.
• The Customer Service Manager plays a key role in the development of efficient order to delivery processes, and oversees the management of the process towards achieving set goals and targets.
• The Customer Care Manager is also responsible for carrying out periodic surveys to measure customer satisfaction and also access the performance of frontline service providers and extant processes.
• Develop and implement Customer care strategies and policies that reflect best practices in the area of order management, complaints management and sales audit, focusing on efficiency and effectiveness.
• Develop and monitor SLAs between Customer care unit, Logistics and Sales towards the realization of service level targets for all customers.
• Develop strategies to monitor day to day order to cash transactions on Oracle to protect the organization from any exposure/loses
• Gathering and building strategic information on our customer’s ordering pattern and promoting point of sale optimization at the various outlets
• Developing and implementing customer feedback mechanism in liaison with corporate communication to evaluate customer service quality, determine customer needs and opportunities for improvement
• Evaluate responses from feedback mechanism and lead efforts prepare and implement action plans for improvement
• Enforce effective relationships with our high value customers
• Ensure the development, motivation and performance of staff in the Unit.
• Continuously capture available data on customer intelligence to improve demand forecast, which would enhance supply chain performance.
• Oversee the day-to-day running of the customer care unit, monitoring supervisors and their activities to ensure compliance to company processes and procedures
• Ensure effective handling of customer’s enquiries and complaints -with the sales team acting as interface between the customer and the relevant units to dealing with the issues
• Interface with the terminal team, fleet and the other units of the department to address issues that affect product distribution.
• Trigger alerts to all stakeholders for any identified gaps or breaches, ensuring order fulfillment plans are effectively and efficiently executed.
• Act as brokers to drive openness and honesty from the Branch Coordinators and the dealers /customers, whilst providing adequate and effective sales support to the sales team.
• Resolve problems that affect the service, efficiency and performance of the frontline service personnel’s.
• Deliver prompt and professional solutions for customer enquiries and complaints management via phones, email etc.
• Effectively contribute to the management of operational costs in the department in line with the cost saving direction of the organization
• Ensure full compliance to Control & Standard and EHSSQ Policies as pertaining to Operations business.
• Lead formulation of relevant procedures and work plans (for Customer Care Unit) with regards to implementation and monitoring in order to achieve full compliance to company policies as relating to EHSSQ, Control & Standard and other regulatory I statutory requirements.
• Lead/assist in aggressive monitoring and auditing of EHSSQ critical assets such as plants, terminals etc. to prevent all unsafe conditions and practices by employees and other stakeholders.
•  Ensure all audits and related reports are submitted and necessary escalations done timely for all unsafe acts and breaches.

Requirements

• 1st degree in Business Administration, Economics or any other Social Science Discipline
• Oil & Gas Industry Dynamics
• Effectiveness and efficiency of enquiries and complaints management system
• Adequacy and accuracy of information on customer ordering pattern
• Order to Cash Transaction efficiency
• Internal and External customer satisfaction levels
• Quality of relationship and collaboration with stakeholders Quality of customer service strategies and action plans to drive improvement
• Effectiveness of feedback mechanism
• Level of awareness and compliance to EHSQ among staff. Total Quality Management
• Relationship Management
• Business Performance Monitoring & Reporting
• Product Knowledge Customer Service
• Negotiation
• Networking
• Coordination
• Interpersonal Skills
• Presentation
• Team work Conflict resolution
• PC Utilization (Excel, Word, Power Point)
• Work Experience
• 5 to 8 years

Application Closing Date
1st November, 2013

Method Of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CVs to: olamide.olatunbosun@hreade.com using Job Title as the Subject of the mail.