We have made changes to enhance your experience. If you have applied for a job previously, you will need to create a new account. Thank you for your patience. Customer Service Specialist page is loaded Customer Service Specialist Apply locations South Africa-Tshwane time type Full time posted on Posted 21 Days Ago job requisition id Req-32646 Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient's life. At Edwards Lifesciences, our Customer Service teams in South Africa are dedicated to providing thoughtful care and meaningful interactions to patients, customers, and stakeholders. As a member of this team, you'll Provides customer service support to customers utilizing effective relationship management skills, work cross-functionally across our organization to ensure our customer and stakeholders receive the support they need and feel connected to our mission of putting patients at the heart of every decision. How you will make an impact: Order Management:
- Responsible for order management during the whole process of order life cycle, order entering to JDE, checking the order.
- Based on customer request checking the availability of the inventory
- Follow up with the customer
- Backorder reporting
- Processing the orders of consignment stock
- Support physical consignment checks (resolve discrepancies in cooperation with the sales team)
- Credit order management - If applicable in cooperation with Bids and Tenders ensuring correctness and reliability of price information in the system - price revision, adjustments
- Ship to creation and maintenance in address book
Complaint management:
- Complaints to returned goods management and documentation handling and problems solving (Biokits, communicate with QA dept.)
- Coordination of FCA
- Additional office duties such as archiving and categorizing relevant documents
Other Responsibilities:
- Procurement system support(COUPA)
- Price File management
- Sales report support
- General assistance to Country Director on request.
- Assisting HR and other departments regarding office events.
- If applicable basic EDI administration
- May potentially act as a part of super-user network for JDE and SFDC
- Participation moderately complex one time projects aiming for improving the quality of service and effectiveness of customer service department
- May potentially act as a trainer and mentor of less experienced colleagues
What you'll need (Required): University Bachelor Degree or equivalent
3 years experience of previous Customer Service field
Excellent customer service skills with ability to negotiate and resolve difficult situations
Advanced computer skills including usage of MS Office Suite
Good written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills
Availability to work under pressure
Good problem-solving and critical thinking skills
Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment
Ability to manage confidential information with discretion
Ability to build and maintain strong relationships across the organization to influence and achieve objectives
Ability to prioritize competing objectives in a fast paced environment
Basic organizational skills
Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control
What else we look for (Preferred): Experience with an ERP software (e.g. JDE) preferred
Ability to work in a fast paced environment
Availability to travel for shorter period of time
About Us Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, the company collaborates with the world's leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards Lifesciences has extensive operations in North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America and Asia and currently employs over 15,000 individuals worldwide.
For us, helping patients is not a slogan - it's our life's work. From developing devices that replace or repair a diseased heart valve to creating new technologies that monitor vital signs in the critical care setting, we focus on helping patients regain and improve the quality of their life.
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