About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognise unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.

Summary

The Export Customer Experience Representative (CER) processes sales orders for intercompany internal customers. The CER will receive the purchase order, liaise between Planners, Global Customer Service Representatives, Compliance, and shipping locations to ensure that we meet our customer’s expectations and ship materials in a timely manner. Will coordinate with our Freight Forwarder for the export booking, and distribution of documentation. The role contributes to the Company’s success by ensuring that our customers find doing business with Lubrizol rewarding and cost effective. The CER ensures complete customer satisfaction by effectively processing orders, timely communication, using order entry skills, being an effective written communicator, and being proactive in problem resolution.

Essential Job Functions

• The CER processes the sales order received through our systems via EDI functionality. The CER is responsible for ensuring that the order entry, shipping, billing, and documentation information is accurate for each order. The CER must have strong problem-solving skills, software familiarization, transportation shipping knowledge, and strong interpersonal skills.

• Assist LZ Subsidiaries with export inquiries pertaining to INCOTERMS, payment terms, for air, ocean, and intermodal transport. CER s must have knowledge of boycott violations and country requirements as appropriate.

• The CER role may include basic supply chain support to terminals, warehouses, or other source points. This type of support may include SAP support and documentation assistance within the order handling process.

• Where appropriate, the CER coordinates with Sales, Marketing and Scheduling group to strategize and implement plans to deal with supply situations.

• CER must provide accurate documentation instructions to enable the freight forwarder to send documents correctly.

• Export bookings – corresponding with steamship lines, air carriers and freight forwarders.

• Relationships are central to success. The CER develops the trust and respect of Customers and Co-Workers through timeliness, accuracy, and dependability. Key characteristics for success are being detailed oriented, prompt, organized and to demonstrate follow through.

• Look for opportunities for Continuous Improvement throughout the order handling processes.

• The CER may serve as a trainer under the supervision of the Supervisor.

• The CER strengthens the group by sharing knowledge and experiences with others. As experience grows, the CER may be asked to participate in Projects. These may be focused in the Department or cross Departmental.

• Portions of this role may be auditable. The CER will assist and participate in audits as appropriate.

Education / Certification

• Bachelor’s degree required. Additional qualifications and experience in logistics, international trade and export regulations preferred.

Experience and Skills

• Minimum of 5-year experience in supply chain within similar industry, including minimum 2 years prior SAP user experience.
• Proficient user of Microsoft Office Products.
• Fluent in English written and verbal. Additional languages such as Spanish preferred.

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It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their ethnic origin, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other characteristic.

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