Scope
At EMEA Customer Care Team - as part of Global Supply Chain Operations – manage the customer portfolio throughout the entire order life cycle. We are a diverse and truly multicultural team of ca. 50 colleagues. We serve a wide range of customers from industries like food and beverages, power, pharma and life science, municipalities to oil refineries. Our teams are daily in touch with Sales, Material Planning, Sourcing, Pricing, Finance and Distribution Departments to ensure providing high standards of service level to our end customers. We aim to focus on continuous improvement and increased service level throughout working on initiatives enabling customer service to do more value-added activities for the business and our customer base.
As a pricing and contract management specialist your responsibilities will be to enter and manage customer contracts through its lifecycle. This means entering, renewing, modifying and terminating and invoicing customer contracts, supporting dispute resolution for contract invoices. All price discrepancies during the order management process will be reviewed and eliminated by this role. You will also be responsible for training and mentoring new joiners as well as managing escalations from customers and sales. You also have to initiate and lead process improvements impacting team performance.
Tasks and responsibilities
Contract Management/Pricing
Creation, renewal and termination of frame contracts
Driving the achievement of our revenue target through linear contract billing
Pricing management
Account Management
Handling queries to meet customer expectations
Root cause analysis to identify process gaps in order to improve customer experience
Gatekeeper to ensure customer data is correct in our system by engaging the relevant departments to update ERP
Dispute Management
Investigate and resolve customer invoice issues to facilitate cash collection for better cash cycle results
Perform root cause analysis to improve billing quality
Knowledge sharing
Provide expertise to colleagues
Share knowledge within Customer Care and be a point of contact for operational questions
Acting as a buddy during newcomer onboarding
Contribute to process improvement
Collect pain points on Customer Care activities and facilitate process improvement initiatives within the organization to improve efficiency
Run Root Cause Analysis for identified process gaps and provide suggestion and/or solutions to leadership for focus areas, improvements
Be a pioneer for Customer care job enrichment
Qualifications
Required education and experience
Essential
At least 4 years professional experience
Advanced level of French and English skills
Effective and professional verbal and written communication – both with internal and external customers
Excellent problem-solving capability
Customer service attitude with ownership of any kind of queries
Logical thinking, analytical mindset| Reporting skills
Proficient IT skills including Excel and Google Workspace
Solid SAP knowledge and experience as a user
Team Player
Desired Characteristics
University or College degree
Salesforce.com experience
Additional relevant foreign language knowledge
Process improvement and project management mindset
Additional Information
What we offer:
You will be part of a motivated, professional team. We provide a competitive salary and other benefits including:
Value-creating tasks and challenges in a successful and environmentally conscious international companyCafeteriaHome Office opportunityMedicover private health insuranceLife insuranceBirthday bonusEmployee support program (e.g. legal, health, psychological counselling, medical screeningtests)Family support (e.g. start-of-school support)Reward for employee referralRegular training and development opportunitiesSafe, stable, family-friendly workplace for the long termAs an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.