Join our multinational partner’s rapidly expanding team as a French-speaking Team Leader, with responsibility for team leadership and operational performance.
The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in Order Management and/or Customer Service, is fluent in both English and French, and brings strong operational expertise. Previous people management experience is an advantage; however, we also welcome senior professionals who are ready to take the next step in their career by moving into a team leadership role.
Job summary:
Order Management
- Own end-to-end customer order administration, ensuring accuracy and timely processing.
- Monitor order validation by exception and drive resolution to eliminate errors and blockers.
- Capture customer orders accurately in the ERP system, including manual creation (email, fax, mass upload) in line with business rules.
- Review and validate orders via OCR tools; resolve discrepancies as needed.
- Handle exceptional deliveries and invoicing cases; investigate and resolve invoice disputes in collaboration with internal teams.
- Monitor inbound and outbound IDOC interfaces to ensure correct system integration.
- Track and document order-related changes (IDOCs, emails) to justify deviations from original customer demand.
- Request creation or maintenance of customer-related master data and interface fields from IT.
Commercial Conditions Management
- Ensure consistency and accuracy of commercial conditions across satellite tools and systems.
- Upload and maintain approved price lists and commercial agreements in contracting tools in line with commercial policies.
- Create and maintain on- and off-invoice contracts, including payment terms and promotional agreements.
- Perform 4-eyes control checks to ensure policy compliance and correct approvals.
- Create settlement requests and monitor credit note creation for off-invoice contracts.
Customer Contact & Case Management
- Register and prioritize customer inquiries, requests, claims, and returns in a timely manner.
- Drive first-call resolution wherever possible, especially for customer requests.
- Perform claims and returns policy checks; escalate non-compliant cases for business decisions.
- Manage refusal, damage, shortage, overage, and distribution center–related cases.
Requests & Claims Resolution
- Select and execute appropriate resolution processes in line with request and claim management guidelines.
- Manage related documentation (credit/debit notes, returns, refusal orders).
- People Management
- Own full employee lifecycle management for direct reports (hiring, onboarding, development, performance management, and exit).
- Lead, supervise, and coach Order Management, Commercial Conditions, and Customer Contact Management analysts.
- Anticipate workload and allocate resources to ensure efficient service delivery.
- Identify training needs, develop talent, and manage performance issues.
- Support reward and recognition processes, including salary reviews, bonuses, and promotions.
Requirements:
- Fluent in English and French (written and spoken).
- 2–4 years in order processing, customer service, or contract management
- Hands-on experience of Salesforces Service Cloud & SAP
- Strong problem solving, deductive and analytical skills, financial acumen
- People managerial skills
Why it is a good opportunity for you:
- Hybrid working (2 days home office/week)
- Health and life insurance
- Cafeteria
- Annual bonus
- Extra holidays