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Job description
Strategic Account Specialist - Retail focus
RRD is a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions that elevate engagement across the complete customer journey. The company offers the industry’s most trusted portfolio of creative execution and world-wide business process consulting, with services designed to lower environmental impact. With 22,000 clients, including 93% of the Fortune 100, and 32,000 employees across 28 countries, RRD brings the expertise, execution, and scale designed to transform customer touchpoints into meaningful moments of impact.
Job Description
This is a hybrid position. The candidate should be in the Atlanta, Chicago or Milwaukee area to be able to be onsite as needed.
Acts as liaison between customer, sales, and production facilities across the platform. Plan and coordinate the production of client jobs in order to achieve the objectives of the service agreement in compliance with customer expectations, company policy, and profit and quality requirements. Applies understanding of customers’ business needs in building solid customer relationships, monitoring customer satisfaction, and providing consulting in conjunction with RR Donnelley sales. Primary point of contact for customer-required services across all locations in the platform.
Responsibilities
Apply knowledge of customers’ business (organization structure, value chain, strategic plans, etc.) to partner with Sales to assess and develop processes to deliver on service quality and solutions development for the customer. Communicate the requirements to internal or external production/service providers. Primary resource and. Provide solutions, develop pricing and provide original/revised job requirements to Planning.
Partner with Sales to develop and execute on strategic customer plans and build contract provisions.
As the primary point of contact, manage high-profile, complex and/or major accounts across multiple plants and/or external providers. Provide recommendations to process improvements to bolster quality, customer satisfaction, increased productivity and lower operating costs.
Oversee the production process from point of sale until final delivery of customer’s product, analyzing customer requirements to determine completeness.
Review customer requirements for adherence to platform capabilities and provide efficient and economical production alternatives as needed.
Enter orders into production, revise and issue instructions for manufacturing.
Coordinate the delivery of customer‑supplied and other production materials across the platform.
Maintain active communication and provide job status updates to customer, sales and manufacturing.
Facilitate the resolution of production-related problems and conduct appropriate service recovery processes.
Provide leadership, career development and procedural assistance to junior Account Specialists.
Qualifications
Bachelor degree in a discipline related to functional work or role with 5+ years of relevant work experience.
Must consistently identify critical elements, variables and alternatives to develop solutions.
Must organize/prioritize existing resources and incorporate new information, as needed, to implement the most effective solutions.
Able to communicate clearly and courteously with those who need to know of decisions/actions/problems.
Able to apply excellent business acumen and collaborative skills when resolving problems.
Able to apply excellent functional computer knowledge in utilizing Microsoft Windows, MAC, or other technical tools in completing assignments.
Able to apply expertise in all the tools or applications used to complete work assignments.
Able to mentor junior level team members in the use of tools and/or systems in the position.
Requires excellent communication skills with ability to state messages in a clear manner by using language that is easy for others to understand.
Must modify communication style both formal and informal to match the appropriate level of the audience targeted.
Requires strong understanding of the impact of a message on the organization or customer.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
All employment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of both a pre‑employment background and drug screen.
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Customer Service
Industries
Advertising Services
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Worksite address
chicago, IL, 60290, US
Who can apply
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