Customer Service Specialist - Military Veterans
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Put your career in motion with a great, new opportunity. Join the Kelly® team as a Customer Service Specialist to work at a leading manufacturer of multidimensional metrology solutions in Maple Grove, MN. We’re here every step of the way to help you and your career be the best it can be.
Why you should apply to be a Customer Service Specialist:
• Work schedule: 7am-4pm or 8am-5pm
• Pay range: $24.00 - $28.00/hour
• Long-term contract. Six months plus, with the potential for permanent
• Join a premier company recognized for its innovative metrology solutions.
• Enjoy a collaborative work environment that values teamwork and communication.
• Benefit from opportunities for professional growth and development within a dynamic industry.
What’s a typical day as a Customer Service Specialist? You’ll be:
• Engaging in proactive customer support as the main point of contact for customers purchasing new/pre-owned systems, ensuring seamless order processing from receipt to installation.
• Collaborating cross-functionally with various departments to facilitate flawless order management and installation.
• Maintaining regular communication with customers, project managers, and others to keep them informed about order status, assisting with any issues, and ensuring all pre and post-delivery processes are completed.
• Responsible for working with Production, Planning, Purchasing departments, and affiliates to determine product availability and communicate to customers as required.
• Coordinating delivery requests with the Warehouse team. Ensuring order dates are meticulously maintained according to standard operating procedures.
• Coordinating customer pick-ups/deliveries.
• Responsible for assisting customers with freight damage claims and machine and product returns.
• Creating software maintenance agreement contracts.
• Performing Financial and Quality Audit Compliance. Basic understanding of Legal Control and Denied Parties.
• Creating down payment, progress payment, and/or proforma invoices
• Maintaining open and closed customer order files.
• Providing backup support for all other order types and customer RFQs for small parts and accessories.
• Informing the Supervisor and/or Manager of important developments, potential problems, and information necessary for effective management.
• Supporting Supervisor and/or Manager as necessary with other tasks including but not limited to: producing reports, analysis, and review of orders, special projects, process improvement initiatives, providing backup to other Customer Care areas, and other duties as directed or assigned.
• Additional responsibilities may include acting as department contact, covering meetings, answering questions, and supporting team members in the Supervisor or Manager’s absence.
This job might be an outstanding fit if you:
• Hold a Bachelor’s degree with 1-3 years of experience in customer service, order management, sales administration, or a related area
• Or have 5+ years of relevant experience. Export experience is a plus.
• Are proficient in Microsoft Office (Word and Excel required; Visio and PowerPoint are helpful) and possess strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Have SAP, Sharepoint, CRM experience• Demonstrate excellent attention to detail, time management, problem-solving abilities, and self-motivation.
• Have a strong, professional customer service orientation
• Are able to effectively communicate with multiple internal departments, as well as externally with sales/distributors/ customers
What happens next
Once you apply, you’ll proceed to next steps if your skills and experience look like a good fit. But don’t worry—even if this position doesn’t work out, you’re still in our network. That means all of our recruiters will have access to your profile, expanding your opportunities even more.
Helping you discover what’s next in your career is what we’re all about, so let’s get to work. Apply to be a Customer Service Specialist today!
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Maple Grove, MN
Why Kelly - Since 2011 we have placed over 16,000 Veterans
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Kelly applies targeted recruiting initiatives to the Veterans population (in all stages of transition) by aligning customer defined requirements with military skills and experience. The transition from military to civilian life can be stressful and complex for veterans, and our staff is trained to assist in this transition. Unlike our competition, Kelly places these resources without geographic or industry constraints, offering our customers and our employees greater flexibility. Kelly has a wide variety of local opportunities, for Veterans and their spouses, within our workforce solutions as well as national recruiting programs on behalf of our customers. Kelly’s leading placement opportunities for Veterans are within Information Technology, Engineering, Science, Light Industrial and Call Center.
Our specially trained Veteran recruiters are armed with a number of tools to help Veterans obtain roles that match their potential including skill translation tools, leading Veteran- centric job boards and Veteran/spouse social media networks, among others.
Through Kelly’s vast branch network, we are closely located to the majority of major military installations across the United States. Kelly recruiters participate in onsite and virtual military career fairs as well as advertise through local and national Veteran job boards. In recent years, over 150 Kelly branches have worked directly with their local military installations to recruit spouses and transitioning personnel. These teams not only engages with transitioning talent from local bases, but also have a strong focus on Veterans in areas where the military has identified high Veteran unemployment. This approach ensures that military talent is engaged and shared across the centralized military recruiting team and documented in a centralized database, so that other Kelly locations can benefit from hiring or relocating this valuable pool of talent.
Our focus on military recruiting is a win on multiple levels. Kelly gains top talent with the skills needed to excel; our clients receive the benefit of that talent to help them compete in an ever challenging business landscape; and Veterans receive gainful employment in line with their skills and abilities to ease the transition to the next phase of their lives.
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