Customer Services Associate - Freight management

Location: Roosendaal
Subsidiary: Röhlig Penske Logistics GmbH
Country: Netherlands
Start: asap

 

Röhlig Penske Logistics is a joint venture between Röhlig Logistics and Penske Logistics and builds on the successful cooperation between the two logistics companies in serving common customers in Europe. Röhlig Penske Logistics offers warehouse space, transport management and e-commerce logistics at its locations in Nettetal, Germany and Roosendaal, The Netherlands. 100 employees work at the two locations.

 

You will be responsible for the daily operational execution process with regards to transport management, road and ocean transport. Handling the day-to-day flow, including routing, scheduling and monitoring of shipping activities towards carriers or other logistics service providers, to ensure that the orders sent by our customers are being transported according to and in line with the established procedures.

 

Responsibilities

  • The orders are being read and interpreted correctly and are being processed according to the predefined procedures and the SOP (standard operating procedures)
  • The data is processed accurately and timely in the system
  • The customer is provided with the correct tracing information and the communication with the customer is maintained timely and pro-actively, if necessary, to prevent issues in case of any miscommunication
  • Be able to calculate and select the best service or price (among all regular suppliers, by consulting a Penske sourcing database) for the customer
  • Mutual responsibility for the optimisation of the profitability file in a constant dialogue with sales and sourcing
  • Registration, research, improvement-discussion and follow-up of loss files
  • Register, solve and escalate to right level, of complaints and defects in the process
  • Ensure that all data in the system is complete for processing by Finance

 

Skills, knowledge and experience required

  • At least minimum General Vocational Qualification (MBO) level. Educational background in logistics or freight forwarding is preferred. It is also a starting position for HBO graduates without work experience

  • Similar work-experience in the logistics area of TM, road and ocean transport is preferred

  • Work-experience in order-processing and/or customer service, is required

  • Experienced in working with Microsoft Office and, preferably with an order-processing system

  •  Fluent in business English (spoken and written). Any other European language skills are useful

  • Experience with transport planning systems is useful

  • Where needed, employee will be trained (internal or external) to achieve desired level

 

What you can expect

Working at Röhlig Penske Logistics means to live internationally: Every day, team members around the world cooperate on developing logistics solutions for their customers. Smart minds with drive encounter numerous opportunities to play a vital role in this process. Flat hierarchies, a pleasant and friendly work environment, considerable opportunities for personal development and long-term career planning provide the basis for your success    

 

Our benefits

  • We focus on longevity and offer an long-term employment contract
  • Regular career development talks and individual training and coaching give you a base for your further
    professional development
  • Our international representation ensures a range of opportunities for career development in Europe 
  • We offer an attractive and performance-related remuneration package as well as monetary benefits like a company-supported pension scheme, travel allowance, vitality provisions and secondary employment benefits with tax advantage
  • Our company policy for flexible working hours and mobile working supports your personal needs in your daily routine
  • And above all: get the chance to be a part of a great team!

 

We look forward to meeting you!

Your contact

Arlette Sprangers
Sr. Human Resources Manager

Tel.: +31 165 576753 | Mobile: +31 620438578

Röhlig Penske Logistics 
Ettenseweg 40

4706 PB Roosendaal, the Netherlands

RPL.Recruitment@rohlig-penske.com