Customer Service Supervisor
Mount Olive, IL 
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Posted 13 days ago
Job Description

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Customer Service Supervisor to support our Mount Olive box plant. In this role, you will work directly with the Customer Account Coordinators, our Area Manager, and our sales and operations groups to maintain an uninterrupted order flow to the customer. You will have the opportunity to leverage your excellent communication skills and attention to detail to coordinate activities across multiple customers. Demonstrating a high sense of urgency, economic thinking, organization, and handling multiple competing priorities are key components to success in this role. The ideal candidate is self-driven, takes initiative, enjoys problem-solving, and engages with customers and team members to deliver best-in-class service.

Location: This is a hybrid role based at our Mt. Olive plant.

Schedule: 8am-5pm Monday-Friday, with flexibility as needed based on business needs.


Our Team

As a Customer Service Supervisor, you will play a pivotal role in leading a team of 3-4 customer service members, ensuring a high standard of service excellence. Our Customer Service team plays a vital role in supporting our Georgia-Pacific Corrugated Box Plant located in Mount Olive. We are committed to delivering exceptional customer service while collaborating closely with our design, sales, and production teams to ensure seamless operations and maximum success. We focus on responsible and innovative problem-solving, meticulous organization, and delivering exceptional customer service results.


What You Will Do

  • Your primary responsibilities will include resolving complex inquiries with efficiency and professionalism, facilitating phone, email, and chat service requests from our valued customer base, and monitoring the team workload to ensure adequate customer support and adherence to correct procedures
  • Develop deep knowledge of the system and business processes. Your knowledge and experience will make you a valuable resource for the team, as you coach and develop individual team members and provide training to enhance their skills and knowledge base
  • Help with production and scheduling needs in collaboration with the Area Customer Service Manager
  • Collaborate closely with sales, national accounts, and operations to build meaningful relationships that maintain our high service standards and contribute to the success of the area plants
  • Standardize processes for onboarding new customers and new items, artwork approval, trial production runs, and price activations. Ensure accuracy in the data and processes and provide final validation
  • Act as a liaison between the sales team, customer service, and operations during new business onboarding
  • Assist in reviewing, refining, or creating training materials, process flows or change communications
  • Process all customer purchase orders for tooling and oversee tooling and freight reimbursement to Georgia-Pacific per customer contracts and agreements
  • Evaluate tooling and external manufacturing vendors to optimize cost savings and ensure high service levels
  • Maintain customer playbooks, roll stock agreements, and monitor inventory for aging material and demand adjustments
  • Your role as a Customer Service Manager extends beyond day-to-day operations. We value your expertise and encourage you to identify system and process workflow improvements that enhance the overall experience of our customers and team members
  • In conjunction with the plant leadership, you will also be involved in special project requests aimed at improving profitability or efficiency for our area plants. You will help manage the execution of projects by coordinating support teams and developing subject matter expert (SME) groups

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • 2 or more years of manufacturing, corrugated, or warehousing customer service experience
  • Experience using Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.)
  • Ability to travel 20% of the time

What Will Put You Ahead

  • Corrugated industry experience
  • Experience using Kiwi, Kiwi FFF, and/or PCS
  • Leadership or supervisory experience
  • Continuous improvement project management

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.


Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.


Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.


Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.


Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf

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