Senior Officer - Customer Service - Ports
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Act as a primary point of contact for customers, handling more complex inquiries, service requests, and follow‑ups in line with defined KPIs and SLAs. Take ownership of customer cases logged in the CRM, ensuring timely resolution, proactive follow‑ups, and clear communication with customers and internal stakeholders.
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Job Description
- Act as a primary point of contact for customers, handling more complex inquiries, service requests, and follow‑ups in line with defined KPIs and SLAs.
- Take ownership of customer cases logged in the CRM, ensuring timely resolution, proactive follow‑ups, and clear communication with customers and internal stakeholders.
- Ensure accurate, complete, and consistent maintenance of customer profiles and service records in the CRM, supporting data quality checks across assigned customer segments.
- Support and guide the team in effective CRM usage, case logging, and customer communication best practices.
- Coordinate closely with Operations, Commercial, Finance, IT, and other internal teams to resolve customer issues, monitor SLA compliance, and reduce repeat cases.
- Lead customer onboarding activities at an operational level, ensuring CRM registration, service orientation, and smooth handover to relevant internal teams.
Responsibilities
- Support the planning, execution, and follow‑up of customer surveys, trade forums, and customer workshops, including tracking actions and customer feedback.
- Proactively support customer engagement initiatives, including structured follow‑ups, service updates, and coordination of customer communications and notifications.
- Promote adoption of digital services and CRM‑enabled processes, identifying recurring customer challenges and escalating improvement opportunities.
- Assist in compiling customer insights, recurring issues, and service improvement inputs from CRM data, surveys, and customer engagements.
- Demonstrate a consistently professional, empathetic, and solution‑oriented approach, while supporting day‑to‑day administrative and reporting activities of the department.
- Collaborate with internal teams to support the digitalization of customer-facing services and processes, providing operational input and customer feedback to improve adoption.
- Support the adoption and effective use of AI-enabled tools and solutions for customer engagement and service delivery, including basic usage, feedback collection, and continuous improvement inputs.
Bachelor’s Degree
Ability to communicate in English (Speaking/Reading/Writing)
Any additional languages would be deemed an advantage.
3 years preferably in the Shipping/Ports/Freight Forwarding industry
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