About the Role
Combe is seeking a dedicated professional to manage the Order-to-Cash process, ensuring timely and accurate order fulfillment. This role involves analyzing inventory, monitoring exceptions, and serving as a key point of contact for customers and partners to resolve operational challenges and improve service performance.
Responsibilities
- Manage customer orders throughout the Order-to-Cash process, ensuring timely and accurate fulfillment.
- Analyze inventory availability, backlog status, customer requirements, and fulfillment risks to support business and customer objectives.
- Monitor and resolve order exceptions related to inventory, pricing, compliance, delivery performance, EDI transactions, and order processing.
- Evaluate and support decisions that impact OTIF, fill rate, customer compliance, deductions, chargebacks, and service performance.
- Serve as a key point of contact for assigned customers, brokers, transportation providers, and third-party logistics partners.
- Partner closely with Planning, Logistics, Sales, Finance, Credit, IT, and external partners to resolve operational challenges and minimize customer disruption.
- Facilitate customer discussions regarding service performance, operational issues, corrective actions, and continuous improvement opportunities.
- Track, analyze, and communicate customer performance metrics and business insights through dashboards, reporting, and operational reviews.
- Support the investigation of customer deductions, fees, and service failures and help identify corrective and preventive actions.
- Translate operational and customer data into recommendations that improve service, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, reporting capabilities, workflows, and the use of digital and AI-enabled tools.
- Develop and maintain process documentation, SOPs, and training materials to support operational consistency.
- Provide support for customer setup, order entry, order tracking, invoicing, and customer portal administration as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required.
- 1-5 years of experience in customer service, supply chain, customer operations, logistics, or a related field.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes and recommend solutions.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and time-management skills.
- Experience working with key customer performance metrics and service-level reporting.
- Strong Excel skills, including formulas, pivot tables, and data analysis.
- Experience with ERP systems such as Oracle, SAP, or PeopleSoft preferred.
- Experience with Power BI or other reporting and visualization tools.
- Understanding of transportation networks, order tracking, and customer fulfillment processes.
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams and build strong working relationships.
Skills
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Organizational skills
- Communication skills
- Time-management skills
- Excel (formulas, pivot tables, data analysis)
- ERP systems (Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft)
- Power BI or other reporting and visualization tools
- Understanding of transportation networks
- Understanding of order tracking
- Understanding of customer fulfillment processes
Location
- White Plains, New York
Work Type
- Hybrid work environment
Experience Level
- 1-5 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $70,000 - $80,000 DOE
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment for most roles
- Partial lunch subsidies for office-based employees
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Outstanding healthcare options
- 401(k) match with Profit Sharing
- Health and Wellness Initiatives (gym membership reimbursement, wellness workshops, mental health support)
- Tuition reimbursement opportunities
About the Company
- Combe is a privately held, family-owned personal care company founded in 1949, headquartered in White Plains, New York.
- With over 75 years of experience, Combe has a legacy of creating innovative brands that address unmet consumer needs.
- The company operates with an entrepreneurial mindset, focusing on solving personal care challenges.
- Combe's portfolio includes brands such as Just For Men®, Vagisil®, Clearasil®, Odor-Eaters®, and Astroglide®, as well as an investment in Virtue Labs®.
- Led by its third generation of family leadership, Combe combines family values with a future-focused approach to growth and innovation.
