Customer Service Specialist New Zealand

Campari Group today is a major player in the global branded spirits industry, with a portfolio of over 50 premium and super premium brands, marketed and distributed in over 190 markets around the world, with leading positions in Europe and the Americas.

Headquartered in Milan, Italy, Campari Group owns 25 plants worldwide and has its own distribution network in 26 countries, and employs approximately 4,700 people.

Shares of the parent company Davide Campari - Milano N.V. are listed on the Italian Stock Exchange since 2001. Campari Group is today the sixth-largest player worldwide in the premium spirits industry.

General Description of the Role

The Customer Service Specialist (NZ) is primarily responsible for the provision of a high level of Customer Service through the efficient coordination and timely delivery of customer orders within New Zealand. This is a contract role which will end on 30 September 2026.

Key Responsibilities and Activities

• Provide a high standard of customer service to both external and internal customers.  Responding promptly to queries and resolving customer issues as they arise.
• Monitor email inbox for receipt of customer orders/enquiries.
• Receive and correctly process orders for customers within required timeframe.
• Process invoices.
• Transmission of required data through to 3PL
• Review daily, outstanding dispatches to ensure on-time delivery, cross checking stock being sent and ensuring that stock is dispatched in full.
• Raise GRA requests and ensure that all confirmed credits are processed on a weekly basis
• Monitor the GRA tracker, raising claims for any lost stock on 3PL
• Attend internal/external meetings as required
• Undertake Ad-hoc reporting
• Provide support to the broad Regional Supply Chain Team
• Participate and undertaking project work as required

Skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• SAP or other general enterprise software
• Data/Sales Order Entry experience essential
• Previous customer service experience
• Effective negotiator
• Computer literacy primarily in Outlook, Excel and Word

General Competencies:(applicable to all Camparistas)

Work Results & Execution, Innovation & Judgment, Consumer/Client Focus, Communication & Team Work, People Development, Ability to Learn.

Operational impact & horizon:

Warehouse & Inventory Management

• Applies knowledge of stock measurement protocols to accurately monitor material levels
• Ensures follow-up of stock (supplies and/or finished products)
• Effectively resolves stock issues (low/high stock level, ageing products, etc.)

Transportation

• Monitors transportation status until final shipment arrives in our warehouse or to client
• Applies planning capabilities to ensure in-time delivery while optimizing loading and warehousing
• Demonstrates a detailed knowledge of Incoterms in reconciling stock movements
• Demonstrates a detailed knowledge of custom regulations, procedures and taxes for inbound/outbound products within area of responsibility

Customer Management

• Analyses processes to identify gaps and resolve service inefficiencies
• Identifies, proposes and implements agreed solutions to structural problems affecting customers

Delivery impact & horizon:

Total Quality Management - Applying Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma

• Puts forward suggestions for improvement in area of responsibility
• Demonstrates consistent understanding of the objectives and focus of the continuous-improvement concept
  • Identifies and proposes opportunities for improvement in daily activities

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

At Campari Group we believe in building more value together, thus we see diversity in all forms as a source of enrichment. Our employment policies and practices ensure that we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment without regard to any individual's race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or characteristics or expression, political affiliation or activity, age, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Campari Group believes that fair compensation and equal opportunities are crucial for employees' well-being, empowerment, and engagement.  Our efforts to ensure fair pay have earned us the Fair Pay Certification by Fair Pay Workplace, an independent organization dedicated to dismantling pay disparities based on gender, race and their intersection.

Note to applicants:

Your application will be assessed based on your abilities, expertise, general knowledge and experience, not because of any confidential, proprietary or trade secret information you may possess. You must not disclose to Campari Group any such information. In the event that you are asked a question that cannot be answered without disclosure of any confidential, proprietary or trade secret information (including from a current or prior employer or their vendors or customers), you must decline to answer the question.

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