Description
Mindware Customer Service Representative
Are you ready for a career where fun means business? Join us at Oriental Trading Company, a Berkshire Hathaway Company!

General Summary of Purpose:
The MindWare Customer Service Representative assists the best customers in an efficient, professional manner, ensuring outstanding customer service and satisfaction with an emphasis on sales. Works with the MindWare sales team to assist with commercial customers via telephone or in person to assist them in sales or event promotions and to advance their expanded use of MindWare product lines. May attend trade shows to market merchandise, develop new customer relationships and cultivate existing relationships.

Essential Functions:
Assists the sales team in maximizing customer business and profitability.
Establishes an ongoing relationship with existing customers in order to assess customer product needs and expand the purchase of merchandise.
Makes outbound calls with existing and new customers to establish their marketing needs.
Enter incoming orders daily.
Understand exporting documentation and manage the process for international orders.
Assists customers in the resolution of problems, ensuring customer satisfaction.
Ensures that individual orders are correctly filled to the customer’s satisfaction.
Becomes familiar with product at a level which one can make product suggestions and replacements i.e. upsell.
Provide service to customer in a courteous, efficient manner with regard to account inquires comments, concerns and placement of orders.
Offer customer-focused solutions supported by facts, knowledge and experience.
Take ownership for escalating issues in a timely manner to ensure customer needs are addressed.
Assist customers with issues including, but not limited to mail, credits, refunds, merchandise certificates (expired or not), expired prices, promotions, invoices, new accounts, call tags, meter station comments, miscellaneous billing, and reships.
Prove personalized customer service of the highest level and maintain all customer information confidential.
Display professionalism with customers, peers and management.
Investigate customer inquiries or order issues and complete related documentation.
Maintains regular and predictable attendance.
Abides by all policies and procedures of MindWare and Oriental Trading Company.
Must be able to attend face to face meetings on short or little advance notice.
Work in the MindWare Department office environment requires in-person collaboration among colleagues and contractors.

Here’s what you need to join the fun:
Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in written form
Ability to operate a CRT system, PC and various software and spreadsheet programs
Strong organizational skills
Ability to handle customers in a professional and courteous manner
Ability to take the initiative to prospect new accounts
Ability to perform job in a safe manner

All work and no play just isn’t our style. Join us today! 
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MindWare (www.mindware.com) is the award-winning creator, manufacturer and distributor of Brainy Toys for Kids of All Ages. Founded in 1990, the company started out as a small retail store in Minneapolis, later evolving into a catalog, website and wholesale business that delivers toys and games to customers' doorsteps, classrooms, neighborhood toy stores and the world's largest retailers. In 2012, MindWare was purchased by Oriental Trading Company, the nation's largest direct retailer of value-priced party supplies, arts and crafts, school supplies, toys and novelties. With a corporate vision to “Make Life More Fun,” Oriental Trading (a Berkshire Hathaway company) spreads joy and smiles to millions each year through a robust family of brands; Oriental Trading, Fun Express, MindWare, SmileMakers, Morris Costumes and halloweenexpress.com.

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