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Customer Service & Sales Representative - 112364

DESCRIPTION/RESPONSIBILITIES: Arconic is currently seeking a Customer Service and Sales Representative join our Rolled Products North America Team at our Lancaster, PA facility.

Primary Responsibilities:   * The key role of the Industrial CSSR is to manage day-to-day account activities and to act as the liaison between the business and its customers.  * They are accountable for delivering value-added services resulting in the highest level of customer satisfaction, thereby creating sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace.  * This position requires little or no supervision and requires independent action and initiative within assigned areas of responsibility while managing multiple customers, customer locations, and plant locations.

Major Activities/Key Challenges:   * Manage the day-to-day account activities for the customer, including, but not limited to:  Booking customer orders, non-standard order entry, status checks and expediting of orders, as well as resolution of related problems involving the plant.  * Establish and/or enhance positive customer relationships.  * Work closely with Supply Chain Management at the plant to ensure material is available to the end customer.  * Translate customer requirements and specifications prior to order entry.  * Prepare written quotations to quote pricing.  * Involved, and in cooperation with Outside Sales, in developing new business opportunities with existing customers.  * Work closely with support staff providing guidance regarding the customer order cycle process.

Essential Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:   * 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.   * Negotiation --- Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.  * Service Orientation --- Actively looking for ways to help people.  * Written and Verbal Expression --- The ability to communicate information and ideas verbally and in writing so others will understand.  * Inductive Reasoning --- The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).   * Information Ordering --- The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).  * Dependability --- Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.  * Integrity --- Job requires being honest and ethical.  * Stress Tolerance --- Job requires dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations in a fast-paced environment.  * Active Listening --- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.  * Critical Thinking --- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.  * Monitoring --- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.  * Time Management --- Managing one's own time and the time of others effectively.  * Problem Sensitivity --- The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.

Basic Qualifications:  * High School Diploma or equivalent.  * Minimum 5 years of experience in sales/customer service, supply chain, accounting, or information systems.  * Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.   * This position may require acces to export-controlled technology, as defined in the Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. §730, et seq.) and/or the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Qualified candidate must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the relevant government agency. 

This position is subject to Export Control Law

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. §730, et seq.) and/or the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Authorizations from the relevant government agency may be required to meet export control compliance requirements.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Arconic is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.