Description Clearwater Paper (NYSE: CLW) is a publicly held company and a premier supplier of private brand tissue to major retailers, including grocery, drug, mass merchants and discount stores. In addition, the company produces bleached paperboard used by quality-conscious printers and packaging converters, and offers services that include custom sheeting, slitting, and cutting. Clearwater Paper's employees build shareholder value by developing strong relationships through quality and service. Working at Clearwater Paper provides an opportunity to enrich your career through challenging and meaningful work and ongoing training and development-all in a supportive environment. We know our success depends on your success. What you will do: This is an exciting time to join our team as a Customer Service Specialist. The successful incumbent possesses a strong command of the company's customer service policies and is well-trained in product knowledge that can be critical for offering quick and accurate assistance to customers. This position ensures that all customer order specifications and expectations are understood throughout the company while actively pursuing additional sales opportunities. The customer service specialist must be able to perform their duties with minimal supervision and communicate effectively and professionally with co-workers, customers, sales managers and production personnel. Voice of company to primary purchasing agent contacts for assigned accounts; responsible for maintaining industry-leading service levels. Uses product knowledge to assist customers with ordering needs. Reserves machine capacity, enters orders, and communicates ship dates. Tracks customer orders through the entire supply chain process (order entry, manufacture, shipment, and delivery). Ensures customer orders comply with Sales and Manufacturing agreements. Minimizes the financial impact of freight costs by maximizing capacity on the chosen mode of transportation or by assigning freight differential costs to the customer. Solicits new orders to assist Operations in qualifying production runs, filling open machine capacity, and selling aged inventory for prime pricing. Receives, generates, and distributes Competitive Information Reports from Sales Managers as necessary. Collaborates with customers, Sales Managers, and others to investigate and resolve customer invoice and accounting issues. Works with sales and quality to supply customers with product samples and trial inventory to secure new business. Regularly communicates with CLW outside sales contacts on opportunities and issues uncovered during regular job activities. Implements and oversees customer offsite inventory programs, as needed, to meet market/customer needs and maintain targeted levels. Manages input of sales orders utilizing Electronic Data Information (EDI). Collaborates with sales, customers, and schedulers by analyzing and adjusting warehouse inventories as needed to ensure adequate turns are being met. Coordinates customer needs with 3PL warehouse contacts. Reviews aged inventory, looking for sales opportunities within customer territory. Performs regular review of customer shipment history versus forecast and provides recommended updates to Sales Manager/S&OP analyst. Monitors customer order volumes to align with sales forecasts. Collaborates with scheduling and operations management to balance production targets. Key Competencies & Attributes Confidence in dealing with ambiguity; bringing different perspectives to light A high degree of business curiosity; quick learner with a proactive and agile mindset Optimistically looks toward the future for opportunities to innovate and improve Ability to gather data, analyze and interpret data, and set action plans based on the analysis Ability to manage projects and interface directly with external vendors to ac