Customer Experience Specialist

**Customer Experience Specialist**

at Design Within Reach Remote Design Within Reach is hiring a Customer Experience Specialist to join our Customer Experience team. As a Customer Experience Specialist, you'll assist with all client services operations and provide support to the Customer Experience team. This role reports to the Customer Experience Manager.

**What youll do:**

You'll have opportunities to grow, achieve and build relationships every day as you...

* Manage multi-faceted customer care inquiries in a professional manner with accuracy of information, appropriate grammar, spelling and empathy.

* Assess customers' support needs through written correspondence or by phone, solve the issue at hand and communicate resolution in a complete and thorough manner.

* Regularly rotate through different operational specialties and skill sets.

* Become an expert in product knowledge and DWR policies and procedures, ensuring the ability to react to and solve customer service requests as efficiently as possible.

* Provide daily Customer Care support to the Sales Organization including but not limited to:

+ Manage and respond to inquiries for tax exemption and trade discount qualification, ensuring required documentation is submitted.

+ Review and solve sales order payment issues.

+ Manage and process return and exchange requests through Operations, ensuring adequate documentation is present, and customer need is resolved promptly.

+ Maintain product knowledge to respond to product inquiries and requests for information and/or parts.

+ Use operational systems available to provide answers to the sales field.

This might be you if you have the following skills and abilities...

* 2-3 years of experience in customer service role with a focus on operational excellence.

* Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

* Ability to work with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.

* Appropriate discretion in handling confidential financial and personal information.

* Ability to thoughtfully handle stressful and difficult situations.

* Solid problem solving skills including follow through and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities.

* Ability to quickly develop rapport with both internal and external groups and individuals.

* Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (especially Excel); experience using Salesforce.com a plus.

* College degree preferred.

* Able to work a Tuesday-Saturday Schedule

As a Customer Experience Specialist, you'll be eligible for DWR's comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision insurance, paid holidays, parental leave, green transit subsidy, 401k and more.

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