Vacancy posts
Customer Service Representative and Office Administrator – Part Time Mullingar
TOP Oil is a family-owned Irish company. We are dedicated to the oil industry in Ireland – supplying all communities – past, present and future. Experience has taught us well and we have stood the test of time supplying our customers through the good and the turbulent times for over a century.
We provide a true end-to-end solution – from port to pump and all the points in between, ensuring the best quality product for Irish industry, businesses, farms, homes and motorists across 32 counties.
The bedrock of our success is our committed team. You could say it is all about the people, the people who work with us, our customers and those we look forward to serving in the future. We pride ourselves on being personable and on building long term, lasting relationships to the benefit of everyone.
Our DNA lies in the communities we are based in, from cities to rural heartlands, and we celebrate the opportunity to participate in them. It is those communities that are important to us and we are driven each day to achieving more for all our customers.
Top Oil has a vacancy for a Customer Service Representative and Office Administrator (Part-Time). The position is based in Mullingar Co. Westmeath. If you have an interest in sales, great organisational skills, and strong attention to detail and are looking for an opportunity to further your career, please apply!
Title: Customer Service Representative and Office Administrator
Reporting to: Depot Manager
Primary Purpose of the Role: To assist in the smooth running of the depot on a day-to-day basis. Responsibilities will include processing and administration, ensuring proper stock and cash procedures are in operation. Involvement in account reconciliations, credit control and drivers queries.
Main Duties/ Responsibilities
Customers/Front Desk:
- First point of contact on the phones ensuring all incoming calls are handled in an efficient manner
- Actively converting price quotation queries into sales
- Ensuring that all customer queries are dealt with and resolved
- Maintaining good relations with existing customers
- Dealing with yard sales customers in person
- Handling cash, credit card and fuel card transactions for all fuel sales in the yard
JDE
- Ensuring on line order entry is the primary method of order entry
- Setting up new domestic customer
- Checking customer pricing / customer balances
- Entering fuel orders
Administration
- To carry out administration in relation to customer transactions including sales order entry, customer payments, credit collection
- To carry out cash & stock reconciliations and other admin duties on an as required basis
Stocks
- Understanding the drivers stock sheet
- Completing the daily depot reconciliation sheet
- Completing the stock reconciliation on the JDE
- Querying any discrepancies that may occur
- Monitoring drivers sheets to ensure daily dips are completed by the drivers and highlighting any issues directly to the Depot Manager
Debtors
Keep the level of debtors as low as possible by:
- Working with the Regional Credit Control Manager and Depot Supervisor to ensure any action as required is taken.
- Contacting customers by phone on a regular basis to collect outstanding amounts.
- Encouraging customers to pay by credit card or COD for their domestic delivery
Finance:
- Completing purchasing orders
- Completing cheque requisitions
- Coding purchase orders
Other
- To complete ad hoc administration duties as required ensuring the smooth running of the depot.
Relationship with other Jobs
- Operate, at all times, in a customer friendly and supportive way with both customers and staff.
Person Specification:
Experience and Knowledge
- Work Experience and Qualifications – A proven track record and experience in an administrative or role with demonstrable evidence of successful delivery of results. Excellent IT skills with knowledge of Microsoft Office package.
- Sales – Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Administration and Management – Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- Business Acumen – Understands business principles and language, including the fundamentals of finance and profitability. Uses this understanding to establish clear priorities for actions and to increase the performance and profitability of the TOP Oil businesses.
- Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Disposition
- Committed, enthusiastic and energetic, the Depot Administrator will have the drive, initiative and focus required in this busy diverse role.
- A heads up person, you will always be alert to your own performance and to the systems you work with and will analyse and consider what you could do to make improvements or take corrective action.
- A highly motivated self-starter, the Depot Administrator will operate in a multi-task environment with deadlines and will be able to challenge themselves to exceed standards, striving for best in class. They are not easily deterred when obstacles or delays are encountered, are organised and unflappable with a strong work ethic.
- Ability to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Attention to detail and accuracy are your touchstone.
- Excellent IT Skills and numerical ability.
Skills and Abilities
The Customer Service Representative and Office Administrator will possess all of the following attributes:
- Communications – A confident communicator with the ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally, both formally and informally. A skilled active, empathetic listener, you are able to give full attention to what others are saying and take the time to understand the points being made.
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Time Management – Managing one’s own time and the time of others productively.
- Performing Administrative Activities — Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/tedcastle-oil-products-limited
https://www.facebook.com/TOPOilFuelingIreland/?fref=nf
THIS JOB DESCRIPTION MAY BE AMENDED AND ADDITIONAL TASKS AND DUTIES ADDED FROM TIME TO TIME
To apply, please send your cover letter and CV to [email protected]