Customer Service Care Agent Job At Maersk Line - Port Harcourt

Maersk Line is the world’s largest container shipping company, known for reliable, flexible and eco-efficient services. We provide ocean transportation in all parts of the world. We serve our customers through 374 offices in 116 countries. We employ 7,000 seafarers and 25,000 land-based employees and operate 580 container vessels. We market our services through the following brands: Maersk Line, Safmarine, MCC Transport (Intra-Asia), Seago Line (Intra-Europe), Mercosul (Brazil), and SeaLand (From 2015 Intra- Americas).

Maersk Line is part of the Maersk Group, headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Group employs about 88,900 people in around 135 countries.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Customer Service Care Agent
Ref.: ML-080580
Location: Port-Harcourt

Job Description 

• The Customer Service Care Agent- owns and manages the customer experience of his/her customers.
• Proactively monitors and manages the end-to-end shipment process in compliance with all company procedures.
• Collaborates closely with all internal and external stakeholders, builds relationships with the customers and leverages on understanding customer business drivers for improved and sustained business relationship.

Key Responsibilities

• Be the primary point of contact for assigned CARE customers and act as an advocate for these customers, internally within Maersk line
• Be the owner of all customer issues and engage relevant stakeholders as required to facilitate timely and effective solutions and be fully responsible for customer satisfaction of assigned customers.
• Understand claims policy and its impact on company assets and guide customers best possible through any potential claim situation.
• Understand per diem/demurrage implications for containers and its impact on company revenue.
• Commercial intelligence: engage customers in discussions about new business opportunities, business and support expectations and competitors/market intelligence.
• Attend to walk-in customers enquiries in a timely and efficient manner.
• Collaborate with Finance team to ensure invoice and payment timeliness and accuracy and avoidance of unjustified cost initiated within and outside functional scope.
• Actively build strong relationships with customers and gain an understanding of their business, service needs, drivers and desires amongst others through regular customer visits.
• Ensure smooth execution of the end-to-end shipment life cycle, by working closely with the customer as well as internal stakeholders.
• Proactively track shipments and notify customers of relevant deviations from the transport plan, including potential solutions or alternatives.

Requirements 
Who we are looking for

• Minimum two year experience in shipping related customer services or sales role
• Proactive and customer-oriented
• Possess ability to make sound decisions with minimal supervision
• Establish and monitor quality standards
• Able to work under pressure
• Well organized, efficient and effective
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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