Customer Service Associate

Customer Service Associate

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Customer Service Associate will administer routine customers facing order management activities. In this role, you will use your basic understanding of customer service practices and procedures to help execute well-established customer service activities for basic and middle service level customers. You will contribute to an increased level of transparency, communication and responsiveness with the company's customers.

Key Accountabilities

• Receive and process straightforward customer orders across multiple platforms following standard procedures.
• Receive and process low complexity change requests following defined policies and procedures.
• Explain basic information and inform customers about order status, invoices, contract balances and other information needed to complete an order.
• Process standard document requests and some ad hoc requests of higher complexity from customers and confirm final shipping and quality documentation and specifications to customer.
• Escalate undocumented issues that are not commonly defined or known to higher level staff.
• Proactively identify risks and opportunities to improve the order management processes.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience