Customer Care Agent Export

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Together with you, we want to empower you to achieve this mission with us. We value you as a person and actively support you on your professional journey, while caring for your future. Join our big little family and let’s make products for you and the world to love. Do you share our taste for life?

Your role
As a Customer Care Agent Export, you will be at the heart of our international business, managing customer relationships across export markets and serving as the key link between customers, distributors, logistics partners, and internal stakeholders. You are responsible for delivering an excellent customer experience for strategic customers across the Nordics and other export regions, while supporting Vandemoortele's commercial and operational objectives in a dynamic, high-performance environment.

Acting as a central point of coordination, you ensure smooth execution of customer-related activities, facilitate effective communication across the organization, and drive the timely resolution of challenges.

Through close collaboration with Sales, Supply Chain, Warehouses, Finance, and other business functions, you contribute to strong customer partnerships and operational excellence.

Beyond your core responsibilities, you play a flexible and versatile role within the Customer Care organization. You adapt quickly to changing priorities, support a variety of customer portfolios, processes, and act as a reliable back-up for colleagues whenever needed. 

Your main responsibilities:

• Process orders (and other order types) and forecast correctly and ensure they are delivered as per logistic conditions agreed by the customer.
• Resolve order blocking issues (credit limit; absence of contract or pricing) with the relevant internal stakeholders (resp. AR; sales) of the different customer orders.
• Follow up of the orders in case of OTIF deviations (such as missing products, delivery delays, etc.), keeping customer and respective sales responsible informed and creating credit note requests based on signed delivery notes.
• Send samples and support in sales in business development.
• Ensure responsive communication with customers, as their primary point of contact, to meet their needs effectively.
• Solve ad hoc or structural problems by connecting with local 2nd line or 3rd line.
• Register complaints and take responsibility for their resolution, ensure communication of the resolution towards customers.
• Send pro forma invoices and follow up on prepayments.
• Take part in product development / pallet / packaging / load optimization projects and defining warehouse capacity requirements. 
• Ensure that customer requirements are met in the delivery process to guarantee customer satisfaction. 
• Address network issues proactively based on stock levels to prevent Out of Stock (OOS), Possible Obsolete Stock (POS), and Possible Critical Stock (PCS). 
• Commercial Conditions: Implement price changes in SAP and other relevant systems. 
• Product Master Data: Fill out customer-specific forms, manage customer access on various platforms, facilitating secure information exchange and communicate any change in existing products and update the customer platforms.

What’s in for you?

• You will join our big little family: Our associates are the beating heart of our company – they bring the flavour to our organisation. We cherish each member, prioritising their well-being and supporting their professional journey.
• We value you as a person: At Vandemoortele we value each one of our associates and recognise their unique contributions to team successes. You will have flexible working hours and the opportunity to work from home 50% of the time. We also invite you to join our sports and wellbeing activities!
• We care for your future, and we support your professional journey: We believe in the power of our associates and the value of their actions and support their career aspirations by offering internal mobility and promotional opportunities. We embrace individual ambitions and entrust our associates to take ownership.
• We make products for you to love: We are a team of passionate food enthusiasts. In our mission to shape a tasty future we strive to create a wide range of food solutions that connects people, cultures and traditions. You can kickstart your day with a delicious croissant fresh out of the oven and enjoy tasty food in our company restaurant.
• Easy to reach: Our HQ is easy to reach by car and close to a busstation. Want to come by bike? Lease a bike at Vandemoortele!

About you:

• You have a bachelor’s degree - preferably in a commercial field or equivalent through experience.
• You are customer-oriented, which reflects a commitment to placing the customer experience at the forefront.
• Your stability shines through in complex and high-pressure situations, making you a reliable and dependable team member.
• You have a solution-oriented mindset and enjoy finding effective solutions to challenges as they arise.
• You are a strong communicator with good social skills to cooperate efficiently with different internal and external stakeholders.
• You are fluent in Dutch and English; French is a bonus.
• You have a strong eye for detail and excellent administrative skills. 
• Experience with SAP is a plus.

Join us in making sweet memories!
Join us on our journey to shape a tasty future. We look forward to discovering how your talent can contribute to the success of Vandemoortele. Submit your CV and, if you wish, a short motivation letter explaining why this opportunity excites you.

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