Job Description
Sea Logistics Customer Care Specialist

It's more than a job

As a member of the Freight Forwarding team Kuehne+Nagel, you will play a key role in transporting goods, optimising processes, and fulfilling our customers' promises. And by transporting medicines, toys and important machine parts, you are not only delivering goods, you are making small and big moments possible for people all around the world. At Kuehne+Nagel, our contribution counts in more ways than we imagine.

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Challenge your talent and come onboard to live an extraordinary experience. Are you ready to ignite the future of logistics together? 

The Customer Care Specialist will be part of a team within the Customer Care Location (CCL) responsible for direct interaction with our customers, proactive customer service, customer follow up, interaction with our sales colleagues and equally as important, ensuring that our Operational Care Centres (OCC’s) have all of the necessary information (including systematic information) to be able to execute on our customer behalf. You will be responsible for ensuring that our customers experience is a positive one each and every time they engage with Kuehne+Nagel, as well as documenting and investigating any deviations from the expected level of service provided. 

How you create impact

  • Ensure all requests carried out to the pre-set service levels and standard procedures, in a timely manner, in line with the KPI requirements
  • Focus on improving customer satisfaction by delivering high quality services to be evidenced via our NPS customer thermometer
  • Ensure service excellence by leveraging a high level of forwarding and market knowledge
  • Monitor customer shipments in order to provide proactive updates to customers and to problem solve (by collaborating with other stake-holders) in anticipation of a customer complaint
  • Document, investigate and conduct root cause analysis on any deviations using KN systems (CoreLog, NPS)
  • Manage tasks through Business Process Automation tools (BPA) and all related features such as task tags
  • Inclusion and transfer of customer requirements into the KN systems (including sold rates and other agreements) so that Operational Care Centres (OCCs) are clearly informed about deliverables
  • Field complaint calls and provide problem resolution in alignment with stakeholders

What we would like you to bring

  • Experience in either freight forwarding or transport planning with key focus on Sea Logistics 
  • Ability to understand and execute new processes
  • Excellent knowledge of MS office features, especially excel
  • Ability to cope with change and embrace new technologies, demonstrate adaptability to change
  • Ability to communicate effectively with an approachable nature

What's in it for you

If you would like to become a valued member of our team, we will make sure that you’re rewarded for your commitment and expertise. You can join the contributory Kuehne + Nagel pension plan and enjoy our Route 2 Rewards scheme which offers everything from discounts, benefit information, recognition and its own wellbeing center. We care for our colleagues (and their immediate family) with our employee assistance program providing access to 24/7 GP, legal and financial advice along with mental health counselling. All of this to help you live a happier and healthier life As proud holders of the Gold Covenant, we are a forces-friendly employer who recognize the skills, expertise and value service leavers bring to our organization.

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

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