Bilingual Customer Care Manager

Bilingual Customer Care Manager

Full-Time-PERM

Location: Toronto (100% On Site)

Hours: 8:00am-4:00pm, OR 9:00am-5:00pm, OR 8:30am-4:30pm

Salary: Up to $100K with a bonus of 9% - paid out annually

About Us

Our client is an industry leading Canadian company that manufactures, distributes, and markets category-leading products for the automotive, commercial heavy-duty, and industrial markets.

PERKS:

· Medical and dental starting from day 1

· Growth potential to more senior Management roles

· CSR department is not a call center

· 3- or 4-weeks vacation

· One floater day

· Modern open space with bright windows, newly renovated

· Strong team approach

· Fun and dynamic work environment!

· Pension Plan 6%

Job Overview

The Customer Care Manager manages the day-to-day activities of the team to ensure that customers receive prompt and efficient service. The incumbent works to provide a high level of customer service while maximizing gross profit. Responsibilities also include assignment of work tasks/priorities, as well as coaching and developing team members to strive for superior customer service standards and to cross/up-sell on all customer touch points.

• Manage the day-to-day activities of the Customer Care team. Provide leadership to the team with appropriate direction, coaching and development to team members.
• Ensure team and individual priorities are set and achieved. Establish KPI’s and develop and set monthly sales objectives for Team members.
• Achieve customer service objectives by contributing customer service information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying customer service trends; determining system improvements; implementing change as required.
• Ensure staff receive adequate sales and technical sales training along with operational process and procedures guidance.
• Assist team members in resolving challenges associated with customer service, product availability, price, product, and product delivery.
• Work with customers as a point of escalation to resolve issues and challenges to improve the customer experience.
• Works with Sales Managers and their sales teams to ensure customer strategy is executed within the Customer Service team.
• Help develop actions in support of territory and account strategies to support and attain targets in assigned territories.
• Focus the sales effort around identifying and fulfilling customers’ current and future needs, utilizing solution-selling models for inbound and outbound calling.

• Bilingual (French/English)
• Superior PC and Microsoft Suite skills. Familiarity with Microsoft Dynamics AX would be an asset

• 4-7 years related experience in supervising a customer related environment, including customer service strategy and customer cycle. (Team of CSR Product OM/Inside Sales)
• Previous people management experience required.
• Experience with forecasting and managing call stats and results.

• Post-secondary education required