Customer Operations Associate - Europe

Purpose of the Job: Manage post award life cycle to ensure customer satisfaction and on-time delivery while catering to the customer.

Reports to: Senior Customer Operations Manager, Spares

Duties and Responsibilities within Region:

1. Meeting and or exceeding company and individual goals and KPI’s
2. Manage the post award life cycle of the purchase order/contract. Including but not limited to: Order Entry (knowledge of purchase order contracts and adhering to customer requirements), Order Acknowledgement, Manage SO Due on & Ship on dates, as well as Driving resolution for any customer holds, issues and escalations.
3. Participate in ongoing cross-functional, product, industry, and customer training.
4. Independently driving and owning post order management.
5. Develop an understanding of the customers in the regions(s) and their product demands.
6. Participate in ongoing process improvement, product, industry, customer knowledge training.
7. Use critical thinking and advanced problem-solving capabilities to coordinate resolution of customer issues regarding product, pricing, lead-times, or quality.
8. Works independently and cross functionally with internal/external departments, including Sales, Supply Chain, Accounting, Trade Compliance, Quality and Warehouse.
9. Be proficient in regional specific requirements (i.e.-contract review, USG FAR/DFARS, flow downs, penalties, source inspections, customer portals, etc.)
10. Prepare and maintain status reports for customers and management as needed.
11. Communicate with customers by phone, MS Teams and e-mail daily.
12. Back up for Data Entry as needed for SQ entry.
13. Attending daily/weekly/monthly meetings as scheduled.