Customer Care Co Ordinator

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact

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Why join our team?

pladis is home to iconic brands Godiva, McVitie’s and Ulker. These brands make sweet treats and savoury treats that consumers everywhere recognise and enjoy As we start on our new journey, we will continue making the biscuits and confectionery people know and expect from these brands, and we will expand their portfolios too. Together we will build new and exciting products at pladis - new flavours, new concepts and new ways to share happiness

Our strength is not only in our products, it is also in our people and our values. Each business that has united to form pladis are loved for their heritage and values. We will retain the honesty, integrity and trust instilled in our brands by our ground-breaking founders as we embark on the next chapter of our success.

What will this role achieve?
- To manage a selection of our Telesales customers including Wholesalers, Cash & Carry’s and Discounters to provide a high level of customer service which meets/exceeds our internal KPI measurements for both pladis and as 3rd party provider for KP
- Working closely with pladis and KP Commercial teams to ensure forecasts are aligned with the customer.
- Working closely with different departments within MDC to make sure customer orders are dispatched in full and on time.
- Be able to multi skill in a wide range of customers and be competent in covering the day to day running of most accounts, assisting with holiday cover.
- Become proficient in the use of all our internal systems.
- Be able to make your own decisions and work under your own initiative striving for an improved way of working.
- Being your customers Champion and be able to challenge decisions with Supply Planning on stock availability.

What will be your key results?
- Achievement of internal KPI’s, whilst providing the customer with a high standard of communication on availability issues, ways of working and best practice.
- Daily management of customer orders, involving the checking of stock levels, minimum life requirement for your specific customer and promotional volume tracking.
- Communicating with your customer daily to advise of any shortages and amendments of the orders.
- Daily service tracking and alignment of weekly service numbers from the customer.
- Daily update provided in the Tier 2 meeting of your customer service levels and anything that is impacting your KPI’s
- Attend quarterly reviews with team leads to look in depth at customer performance and look at ways to improve on any inefficiencies.
- Adhoc reporting that may be required for customer meetings.
- Investigation work on assembly shorts and DDDR’s if required on a daily basis to help improve customer service and to eliminate issues from future orders.

What do you need for this role?

Crucial
- Basic understanding of excel
- Adaptable
- Work under own initiative
- Work under pressure to meet internal deadlines
- Effective communicator
- Friendly and Sociable person
- Approachable and a team player
- Confident and Quick learner
- Desire to succeed and progress

Preferred
- SAP experience
- JD Edwards experience
- Previous customer service experience

Our winning traits and behaviours
- Purpose-Led - Energised by our promise to deliver happiness to the world with every bite
- Agile - Ever evolving, never satisfied and never standing still
- Collaborative - Willing to work collectively for mutual success
- Resilient - Quick to adapt to change, fast learner and persistent in the face of setbacks
- Positive - Self-motivated, optimistic, adventurous, and inspiring
- Diversity and inclusivity is central to everything we do and is reflected across our business. pladis brings together brands and people from around the globe - and this diversity is our great strength._
- We’re an equal opportunities employer and believe in encouraging an inclusivity where we celebrate diversity of thinking and respect everyone’s distinctive qualities and perspectives._

pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will