Assistant Manager

Yokohama Off-Highway Tires (YOHT) is a fully owned subsidiary of The Yokohama Rubber Company (YRC), Japan. At YOHT, we know that you aren't just running your vehicles on our tires but also your businesses. We deliver value by manufacturing quality products that come from innovation and advanced research & development.

We are known for the ability to provide customers, both aftermarket and OEM, with Application-Specific, Purpose-Built tires. From fields to mines to factories to forests, we offer solutions for various necessities. We don't just create, but we also customize, anticipate and deliver. JOB DESCRIPTION FORM

Job Role : Customer Service - MEA (Delivery Management Customer Facing )

Location: Mumbai

Reports To: Lead - Customer Service (Delivery Management Customer Facing - MEA)

• Job Purpose Statement :-

To maintain Order to Cash flow in accordance to our rules and regulations. Becoming 'One point of Contact' for all requirements of customer.

• Duties & Responsibilities :-

2.1) Daily Activities :-

• Pending Customer/Desk manager revertals on queries and issues: All mails to be replied within 1 working day. Wherever time required for exact response is higher, reply back stating the reason and expected time.
• Review dispatch planning reports and check on-hold containers for respective customers, follow up for release with concerned person. Explore possibility of planning additional containers with dispatch planners
• Cross check all customer details in dispatch planning report to ensure there are no wrong details sent to factory
• Co-ordinate for new order receipts and confirmation, ensure timely confirmation within 2 working days.
• Check all related order details at time of confirmation, Send dummy invoices wherever applicable
• Ensure documentation of shipments is sent on time, if not received on time, follow up for same
• Wherever final documents are held for payments, follow up for payments to be made
• Review loading lists and forward to customer/desk managers.
• Co-ordinate for filler requirements wherever containers are ready for shipments but held up for small quantity – User customer level sale specific free stock circulated by dispatch planners
• Daily check with all overseas counterparts (Desk Managers) for any pending issues missed
• Escalate matters wherever necessary at right time

2.2) Weekly Activities :-

• Send Backorder details to customers AND/OR Desk Managers in 3 categories: Overdue, Current, Future
• Send free stock to customers AND/OR Desk Managers. Free stock needs to be as per customer sales history to enable them place orders as per their requirement
• Concall with respective Desk Managers. Send List of points to be discussed before the call (preferably One day prior) along with status of action items discussed in previous call. After call send the Minutes of meeting with action items, timelines and person(s) responsible.
• Updating customers/desk managers with shipment tracker showing shipment made in last week and plan for next week
• Follow up with production planning team in case of critical sizes awaited from production which are delaying shipments
• Review on time Delivery (OTD) score of respective customers and analyses cases for low scores. Follow up for dispatches due next week to ensure on time Delivery.
• Update customer complaints data with new complaints, progress on previously received complaints

2.3) Monthly Activities :-

• Review Backorder status and check for overdue and critical orders before month production plan is released. Also suggest priority for production in case of critical items

2.4) Event Based :-

• Pricing changes
• Any co-ordination required for new customers or process change for existing customers
• Seasonal orders/Special orders tracking
• Key Result Areas :-
• 95% of Orders Promised for shipment for the month at the beginning of the month to be achieved in the month-
• Conversion of Partial Loads - 90 % by every Month
• Sales from Free stock
• Follow up on Urgent Size shipments - to be created month on month on basis of the Opening Back order
• MOQ Conversion - 60 % Conversion on the opening Back Order
• Remittance and Closing of CN of more than 3 months
• Reduction of Issues of CN for Pricing Issues
• Credit Limit Check for loading of Containers - Zero deviation
• Influence New customers for turning around orders in minimum lead time - Shipment within 4 weeks from the Order Received
• Complying the Audit and SOX related issues -
• Educational Qualification :-
• Any Graduate
• Need to have done a course of Import & Export management or anything else which is relating to customer service and SCM
• Skills & Knowledge :-
• Good English communication skill
• Should have good knowledge in Preparing MIS Reports in Excel, using VLOOKUP, Pivot, Macros and other excel tools.
• Behavioral :-
• Customer Centricity
• Stakeholder management
• Interpersonal skills
• Work Experience :-
• 4 to 5 years of experience in customer service, with offshore customer handling experience
• Worked with a Customer service profile in a Manufacturing Unit.
• Functional :-
• MS office
• Good English communication skill
• Should have good knowledge in Preparing MIS Reports in Excel, using VLOOKUP, Pivot, Macros and other excel tools.
• Need to have done a course of Import & Export management or anything else which is relating to customer service and SCM
• 4 to 5 years of experience in customer service, with offshore customer handling experience
• Worked with a Customer service profile in a Manufacturing Unit.