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Job Title: Ice Cream Customer Execution Specialist OOH
Location: Kingston
Work-Level: 1B
ABOUT ICE CREAM: Life Tastes Better With Ice Cream
As ice cream makers we are serious about happiness. With warm hearts, we create the coolest products, and we supply them to our consumers. As the largest ice cream company in the world, we have over 100 years of experience in delivering smiles, and we plan to continue this for many more years to come. If you are in the current Unilever Ice Cream business or considering working for the newly separated Ice Cream business, you will work for the Global leading Ice Cream player in a growing category where we are part of the 1 trillion snacking and refreshment industry, growing consistently at high pace. We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of Ice Cream as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen by November 2025. Committed to innovation, quality, and sustainability, we have 35 brands, including 3 one billion Euro brands (Magnum, Wall’s, Ben & Jerry’s), a strong presence in over 60 countries, generating annual revenue of over $8 billion, of which 2.8b comes from the Europe region. As part of the supply chain team, you will turn the ordinary into the extraordinary by supplying unique and high-quality products to our customers and consumers, coordinating the entire E2E supply chain network in an efficient and sustainable way.
The UKI is one of the biggest ice-cream markets in Europe and the wider world, delivering nearly £500m turnover across Retail, Out-of-Home and D-COMM channels. This role is an exciting opportunity to join the UKI SCLT leadership team and lead the In-Home Customer Services team which is the largest share of business at 70% and now includes DCOMM and ICNOW channels.
JOB PURPOSE
The Customer Execution Specialist’s OOH role reports to the Ice Cream Customer Service Manager. OOH, New Business model & Ireland is primarily responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the Unilever Ice Cream daily order cycle. They are the face of Unilever’s Supply Chain to customers and 3rd party logistic partners regarding any operational queries. They work closely with our third-party partners and are responsible for troubleshooting current order issues, whilst working to root cause and eradicate repeat issues through a process of continuous improvement. The key focus of the role is driving to make Unilever the preferred supplier to our customers, whilst also running efficient and effective processes in a standardized way.
RESPONSIBILITIES
* Key Metrics
o Fulfilment Rate – Dispatch Rate %, CCF / Customer Measure of Service
o Customer Service Inbox – volume of mails & turnaround time.
o Customer Service - AGS
o Logistic Efficiency – FTAs, FTDs, Returns, Refusals, Logistic Claims
o PEGA tickets – number and time to resolve
o Month end open items - deliveries, returns, orders
o Order Fulfilment cycle time
o Order accuracy
o Lead time adherence
o Customer Trade Terms Compliance to LET grid
* Operations & Systems
o Point of escalation for support and issue resolution in a timely manner relating to all operational activities involved in the daily order cycle – including but not limited to PEGA ticket resolution and Order Fulfilment team queries.
o Manage rebooks and logistics issues with customer and 3PL partners, where customer insights and decisions are required.
o Respond to haulier and customer queries via e-mail and telephone to ensure smooth operations and delivery of exceptional customer service.
o Support 3rd party partners (such as warehouse, order fulfilment, etc) with execution of O2D processes in times of contingency.
o Ensure compliance to all applicable month end controls.
o Manage any exceptional issues – including but not limited to uplifts & lead-time exceptions.
o Provide bank holiday operational O2D cover as part of agreed rota within Customer Execution team.
o Implement supply chain initiatives with key contacts at the customer (e.g. setup of new delivery point, lead-time reduction, weekend ordering etc).
* Bill to Cash
o Prompt resolution of Logistic Claims to support delivery of cash.
* Projects, Innovation & Capabilities
o Monitor execution of exceptional events (NPD, Shippers, WIGIGs etc) to troubleshoot order issues and ensure OTIF delivery.
o May be expected to lead on one or more of the following ad-hoc order processes for sample, charity, remnant and residual customers.
o In collaboration with subject matter expertise, onboard new technical solutions into day-to-day operations, working within standardized ways of working to realize efficiency gains e.g. customer portal.
o This role may be asked to support and/or lead on specific projects or process improvements.
o Keeping up with the pace of technological change is an expectation in this role.
* Continuous Improvement & Problem Solving
o Many of the responsibilities below are to be done in partnership with the Customer Service Managers and their teams, despite this not being a direct reporting line.
o Investigation & RCA of logistic issues – including but not limited to FTAs, FTDs, Returns, Refusals and Logistic Claims with third party logistic teams and customers to identify route cause and reduce recurrence.
o Analysis of the trends around PEGA tickets, and the delivery of a programme to reduce the number of PEGA tickets over time.
o RCA of individual PEGA tickets and develop action plans with customer and CCS to reduce recurrence.
o Support identification of repeat service losses and share with CCS to help eradicate.
o Support CCS in reviewing compliance with logistics trade terms and identifying opportunities to improve with customers. This includes analysis of order patterns, load fill, volumes, full pallets, cancellation/amendment of orders post-creation of delivery note (ORCHID system), etc.
o Collaborates with third parties and internal stakeholders to influence the continuous improvement of reports, processes and ways of working pertinent to this role & its interfaces.
* Customer Communications & Relations
o Act as the operational supply chain face of Unilever to our customers.
o Respond
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