Customer Operations Specialist - German Speaker Description: MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES: The Customer Operations Specialist works within a European, multicultural and fast-moving business environment, supporting the HP Customers and Sales Force, within the area of order fulfillment.
He/ she is located in a central order management team and has a wide variety of responsibilities: Responsibilities: Backlog accountability: Manages customer/partner backlog to ensure that appropriate actions are taken to deliver orders within agreed SLA and according to business need.
Reviews the backlog tools in use (e.g.
E2E tool, FOM, or any other tool used by HP) on a daily basis and takes actions to bring the delayed orders back in contractual HP SLAs.
Provide backlog analysis and summary report to customer and account team if and when required, in due time and with accurate information, as per the received requests.
Manages all claims, exceptions and special requests in the area of Customer Operations, in due time and in alignment with agreed procedures/policies, as per the received requests.
Coordinates customer's change requests in due time and in alignment with agreed procedures/policies, ensuring the accuracy of the task.
Financial & revenue management: Ensures all orders are invoiced and closed in the systems; if not the case, takes action to trigger the necessary invoice or provide the business justification to leave the billing open.
Minimizes field inventory through constant analysis of the justification of each case and reports to their lead.
Keeps the volume of financial disputes to a minimum and actively works to closing them as soon as possible once they appear.
Helps maximize the revenue on the accounts in quarter ends through collaboration with all involved stakeholders.
Communication & E2E coordination: The Customer Operations Specialist is the first & unique point of contact of the customer for all questions, information & requests regarding the orders in process & the claims.
He/she drives the customer engagement (reactive and proactive) by timely and accurate feedback given to the customer and internal stakeholders on order status and actions taken to optimize the backlog in order to deliver the goods/services with agreed SLAs.
Provides consultancy and guidance to customer on order management cycle (via phone/email) and ensures customer is aware of the order acceptance policy.
Delivers in time and accurate information, as per the agreed process/procedure and the client's request.
Interfaces internally to the country team, Order Fulfillment, Logistics, Credit & Collection, all relevant Sales Operations functions and back-end team, in order to ensure the best way of delivering the tasks.
Provides consultancy and guidance to the account team on Customer Operations processes and policies.
Confirms order is processed to customer for manual orders (where applicable).
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