Headquartered in Denmark, ECCO is a family-owned footwear and leather goods company that offers international opportunities. Their offices and facilities have an informal culture and relaxed dress code – the shoe code is slightly stricter. Joining the ECCO family, you will be guaranteed a lifelong learning – the speed of progress is up to you.
At ECCO, you become part of a meaningful, developing and multicultural workplace. You will join a global family of more than 21,000 people who are proud to create the footprints of tomorrow.
ECCO has a global presence in 99 countries, 2,250 ECCO shops and more than 14,000 sales outlets.
The key tasks
This is a varied and challenging role supporting our key strategic online accounts, including Zalando, Amazon and others. The ideal candidate will be expected to monitor and contribute on a day-to-day basis whilst looking to further improve the customer service processes and contributing to customer service and sales related projects.
General responsibilities include:
- To ensure customers are up to date on all relevant information related to deliveries
- To ensure the key account manager receives all relevant information in a timely manner
- To maintain daily contact with Logistics, Finance and Master Data functions
- To ensure the customers receive orders on time, in full or are informed on late deliveries as a minimum requirement
We are looking for a strong individual who is passionate about customer service who can use their experience, abilities and drive to ensure excellent customer service to our customers.
Further Responsibilities
Order intake management, Order & Delivery Follow up:
- Main order handling: To ensure that the orders are in the system on time, in full and that a clean order book is maintained at the end of every season
- Actively support the commercial team to reach the respective repeat order target per season per account
Order releasing:
- To release orders on time from the warehouse
- To ensure we meet the customers delivery terms. Preparation of the pre-advise files on the external customer portal to avoid chargebacks or refusal of delivery.
- Daily communication with the forwarder.
- Pickup / Return handling
Service & Logistics Account Monitoring/Management:
- To maintain close contact and report out to the assigned accounts on a daily/weekly/monthly basis
- Being the interface between our customers, Logistics, Forwarding, Finance, Operations, etc.
- To support the preparation of customer visits (in the country/Kick offs/showroom) together with the Key Account Manager
- To provide all required support to customers and maintain a structured communication flow and working relationship
- Co-op Agreements credit notes for special agreements on monthly basis
- To provide copies of invoices, delivery notes or order confirmations if required to the customers
- Invoice Corrections / Credit Notes arrangement with Finance
- Missing goods - Follow up of shortages in shipment. Prepare the shortage file for HQ Denmark and credit in SAP
- POD Requests arrangement with Forwarding
- Delivery dates alignment for ECCO, after every main order upload
- Close relationship with the demand team, with a special j0 clean up flow for ECCO
- Updates of cost and prices
Teamwork / Interdisciplinary:
- To provide support to other departments pro-actively
- Reporting out to the team in bi – weekly team meetings
- Provide daily/weekly/monthly updates on numbers/statistics concerning area of responsibility
- Participation in interdisciplinary projects (e.g. supply chain, sales actions, etc.) required
- Give input to and develop (sales)activities
- Independently execute of pre-defined (sales) activities
- Phone call handling / email handling
- To handle customer requests, telephone calls and emails in a timely, efficient and effective manner
- To identify needs for improvements and highlight them
- Initiate and lead improvement projects as well as being a project member
What we are looking for in you?
- Extensive Customer Service experience
- Fluent in English
- Experience with SAP (preferred)
- Experience with Excel, including V-lookup and pivot tables (preferred)
- Experience with CRM-tools, preferably Salesforce
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and make decisions
- Positive attitude to new challenges
- Ability to use own initiative and proven track record of having solved problems successfully
- Degree or Equivalent