Move Manager

SIRVA brings together strong, collaborative people in a dynamic culture of mutual respect, support, and passion for the brand and product. We believe innovation drives winning performance, and we constantly challenge ourselves to be the very best we can in every aspect of our business. You will be surrounded by some of the brightest and most driven people in the industry. At SIRVA, you will be in great company

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Position Summary
The Move Manager acts as the primary point of coordination providing service delivery to our clients and their assignees whilst maintaining the highest level of customer service.
The Move Manager will be the first point of contact for the moving aspects of an employee’s relocation. They will support and organize the movement of household goods and personal items for our client’s assignees. They will be responsible for guiding the employee through the process ensuring that you provide an excellent level of customer service. The Move Manager will have strong organisation skills, problem-solving abilities, cultural awareness and time management abilities.
Functions and Responsibilities
60% Communicate Proactively, Build Relationships & Ensure Customer Quality
Customer
- Set move expectations and proactively anticipate the customer's needs. Handle customer inquiries with a sense of urgency and empathy.
- Manage and monitor customer expectations, requests and issues timely and effectively.
- Maintain minimum quality service score as defined by our IMC Scorecard.
- Full accountability for the success of each assigned move.

Supply Chain
- Coordinate and communicate the logistics, pricing, move details and troubleshoot/resolve any process glitches.

Account Support
- Communicate and report back to national accounts/bookers as required
- Identify areas for enhancement or improvement; work with management to systematically resolve.
- Internal Support
- Coordinate with various departments such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, claims network management and account management to ensure proper completion of all aspects of a move.

10% Logistics Department
- Follow pre-defined move management process and our proprietary workflow system tasks as defined by the book of business and shipment workflow.
- Anticipate, plan and ensure the most efficient and cost-effective shipment routing based on customer requirements.
- Select and coordinate with the best household goods movers at origin and destination, truckers and freight lines (ocean/air/road) to best forward the shipment according to account requirements.
- Partner with customs and other governmental agencies as required.
- Mitigate adverse financial impact of problematic situations through use of technical knowledge, established business contacts and persistence.

10% Move Administration
- Data integrity: Document within the Globalcom/PROMOVE/Navision systems all customer, agent and move information including revenue, expense and correspondence/action taken.
- Paperwork and file management: responsible for all shipping documentation and timely forwarding to destination agent, port agent, inland carrier etc. while minimizing paper files by utilizing system notes and scanning capabilities.
- Enable billing: Ensure all updated revenue information is complete and all relevant paperwork to support accurate and timely billing is delivered while partnering with billing staff.
- Work disputes/exceptions: Prioritize the prompt investigation and resolution of all revenue disputes and expense exceptions
- Claims initiation: Ensure that the proper documents are prepared and passed to the claims group. Ensure the customer understands the requirements of filing a claim and support the follow-through.

10% Customer Satisfaction & Exception Resolution
- Manage and monitor the customer/vendor expectations, requests and issues timely and effectively
- Negotiate with vendors, agent partners and network offices to settle discrepancies.
- Adhere to set goals to ensure the KPI’s are met

Qualifications and Preferred Skills
- Minimum 2 years of