Customer Satisfaction & Quality Manager Distribution Sales Manager-Kenya

Job Purpose
Piloting areas, defining adequate procedures for managing the Customer Critical issues, in order to assure maximizing clients total satisfaction.
Developing, implementing and following up of the improvements in the customer complaints management, survey, audit and ISO processes within the country, Plans and communicates all aspects of CCMP process improvement and quality, Leads and Sponsors quality initiatives as per Schneider Quality policy to protect the customers & SE from the consequences of the product malfunctions.
Responsible for the Quality Management activities of Recall projects. Builds the project quality plan and executes quality assurance and control activities to ensure that project are well managed resulting in the solutions meeting (and exceeding) all specifications, while maximizing the client’s total satisfaction.
Job Accountabilities

Ensures understanding of customers’ requirements / strong sense to resolve customer problems
Appropriately balance global standards against local needs and practices
Proactively puts in efforts to accomplish aggressive goals & intervenes to remove obstacles
Manage the robustness of Customer Complaints management processes deploying all related directives to reach the required level of maturity as per corporate guidelines in order to eliminate unsatisfactory performance and improve value for Customer
Establish procedures for maintaining high levels of quality and customer satisfaction
Manage quality issues and their resolution along its life cycle and implements corrective actions where necessary
Leading the Product Safety Alerts / Business Risk issues handling ensuring implementation of Corrective and preventive actions
Manage & maintain Recall projects actions as source of enriching customer satisfaction to reach maximium Securing installed base
Work collaboratively with Finance Business Partners & Other partners to control & reduce Non-Quality Costs through ensuring all methods / processes deliver the expected benefit to the bottom line
Develop and maintain interfaces with the other parts of the organization in order to ensure a consistency throughout the organization and with other quality initiatives
Support efforts participating in root-cause analysis and other problem solving activities in order to identify corrective actions on process and/or product improvements
Stop and put an end to any process which would endanger customer satisfaction or decrease internal performance on the basis of factual measurements
Represent quality organisation in country business reviews
Ensure the Overall performance for Quality, and Customer Satisfaction in all areas within the country
Call and visit detractor customers turning them into promotors within the country
Follow up on ISO audit certification improvemnet points
Ensure a customer centric organization and act as the customer advocate throughout the corporation
Act as the company ISO management representative

Required Qualifications, Experience & Skillset

University degree in an engineering profession is preferable
5-7 years’ experience in Customer relation management
Prior experience in electrical manufacturing environment preferred
Ability to understand and plans for cross-cultural viewpoints in workplace interactions
Ability to utilize company tools to achieve the required tasks to improve work efficiency.
Ability to define / put in place medium and long term action plans in order to increase customer satisfaction
Problem solving capacity.
Ability to make decisions based on facts where effective and efficient
Ability to negotiate and come to an agreement with the customer by managing communications through discussions and compromise.

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