Customer Account Coordinator - Butler, United States - International Paper

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Description

Position Title:

Customer Account Coordinator II


Pay Rate:

$47,300 - $63,000

  • Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range._

Category/Shift:

Salaried Full-Time


Physical Location:

2626 County Road 71

Butler, IN


The Job You Will Perform:


  • Acts as the primary point of contact to International Paper's customers and is entrusted to ensure that our customers receive a worldclass customer experience.
  • Entrusted as a keymember of the site's team to meet or exceed customer expectations and business objectives.
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Mastery of Customer Account Specialist accountabilities including:

  • Convert customer purchase orders to manufacturing production orders.
  • Ensure raw materials and tooling are ordered to support production.
  • Communicate, professionally and respectfully, with internal and external customers regarding issues such as order status, estimates/quotations, order changes and order confirmations.
  • Monitor and manage customer inventory levels.
  • Investigate and resolve: order discrepancies, customer quality complaints, overdue accounts receivable, and aged inventory.
  • Establish strong relationships and communicate daily with representatives from operations, shipping, and maintenance to stay abreast of plant activities that could impact customer order fulfillment.
  • Demonstrate a thorough understanding of plant specific manufacturing capabilities.
  • Coordinate with representatives from the design, sales, pricing, and operations department to manage the implementation of new customer items.
  • Demonstrates a solid understanding of the business objectives, goals and values of International Paper.
  • Make daily decisions that maximize customer satisfaction and plant capacity balancing.
  • Solve problems with technical and business acumen, poise, and a sense of urgency.
  • Build strong relationships with customer contacts to establish and maintain International Paper's competitive advantage of providing customers with a worldclass customer experience.
  • Establish, manage, and enforce correct order unitization.
  • Demonstrate a solid understanding of International Paper's pricing models including variable contributions levels.
  • Demonstrate the ability to coordinate warehoused items using basic manufacturing skills such as replenishment ordering and FIFO (first in first out).
  • Routinely assess and report possible obsolescence concerns of aged inventory.
  • Participate in the plant's NPI (nonprice improvement) initiatives especially in the areas of aged inventory, trailer utilization, and operational efficiencies.
  • Provide data reporting of orders, sales, and inventory to plant management, sales teams, and customers, as requested.
  • Create and manage customerspecific reporting requirements such as daily status updates, order prioritization, MSF delivery, OTD (ontime delivery), and warehoused inventory status.
  • Coordinate the efforts of internal and external vendors to ensure the correct tooling, artwork, and CADs (computeraided design) are approved by the customer and provided to the manufacturing team.
  • Consistently demonstrate exceptional administrative, organizational and communication skills.
  • Observe and report to plant management and sales teams noteworthy customer concerns or trends.
  • Participate in production meetings to ensure that orders are tracked from receipt of rollstock to final delivery to ensure all production steps and shipping plans satisfy commitment made to customer.
  • Research and resolve customer order discrepancies to include customer credits or debits, quality concerns, makeup orders, and returned/reworked items.
  • Ensures customer price lists are accurate and update when required.
  • Research and address discrepancies on weekly Accounts Receivable Reporting to ensure correct pricing and timely payments maintained.
  • Work independently with mínimal oversight.
  • Provide forecasts to plant management and sales teams based on customer input and/or historical trends.
  • Provide quality assurance checks on technical specifications used for quoting new business.
  • Communicates customer expectations and requests to scheduling, manufacturing, and shipping departments.

The Skills You Will Bring:


  • 3 years of industry experience with a high school diploma/GED or an undergraduate degree, preferred.
  • Ability to perform basic math functions such as working with fractions and percentages, manipulating and recording figures to provide accurate quantities, estimates and quotations.
  • High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office products, specifically Excel and Word
  • Outstanding communication skills, written and verbal.
  • Customer Focus
  • Decision-Making
  • Attention to detail
  • Integrity and Trust
  • Perseverance
  • Composure
  • Team Orientated
  • Relationship building
  • Multitasking
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Flexible
  • Quick thinker / Lea

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