Customer Service Specialist

Customer Service Specialist (Open)

Greif offers a great working environment and the opportunity to make an immediate impact at a company where your ideas are always welcome.

Founded in 1877, Greif is a global leader in performance packaging located in 40 countries. The company delivers trusted, innovative, and tailored solutions that support some of the world's most demanding and fastest-growing industries. With a commitment to legendary customer service, operational excellence, and global sustainability, Greif packages life's essentials – and creates lasting value for its colleagues, customers, and other stakeholders.

Our Vision: Be the best performing customer service company in the world.

Our Purpose: We create packaging solutions for life's essentials.

Key Responsibilities:

• Interacts with customers via telephone, email, online chat, or in person to provide top level support and advance information on products or services.
• Maintains customer accounts and records of customer interactions with details of inquiries, complaints, or comments.
• Communicates pricing, shipping dates and appropriate order information to customer to ensure order fulfillment and satisfaction.
• Contacts customers to respond to advanced inquiries or to notify them of claim investigation results or any planned adjustments.
• Collects and enters orders for new or additional products or services.
• Supports inside and outside sales.
• Updates and maintains files, including data entry.
• Fields second level escalated and advanced customer problems and needs; when the issue is beyond the coordinator's knowledge, forwards to the assigned specialist or other appropriate colleagues.
• Trains new Customer Service Coordinators.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

• Typically possesses a high school diploma and 4-5 years of experience.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Exceptional skills in verbal and written communications.
• In-depth knowledge of product.
• Proficient computer skills with the ability to learn new software.
• Solid knowledge of basic office equipment (i.e. copiers, fax machines, calculators, etc.).
• Excellent organization and data entry skills.
• Good attention to detail.
• Self starter that can work with minimal supervision.