The Export Sales Coordinator is the primary liaison between the company's corporate headquarters and the international customers and worldwide subsidiaries. It involves sales activities, principally dealing with quotes, orders, expedites, shipment tracking, export documentation, and return goods.  This position develops price and lead time quotes, receives and processes sales orders, and takes necessary actions to develop and communicate appropriate responses to meet customer needs and company goals and objectives.

 Essential Functions:

• Produce accurate and complete quotations through specification evaluation, product selection, pricing, lead times, delivery terms, and packaging requirements, and send formal responses to subsidiary customers.
• Process sales orders for production as well as expedite orders, coordinate shipping with manufacturing facilities, vendors, and freight forwarders, and prepare export documentation for both US export customers, international customers, and subsidiaries, including determining correct harmonized codes.
• Understand each country's customs requirements and import laws to assist subsidiary and customer shipments. Prepare shipping documents using a third-party portal for each individual country. Finalize customs documentation before the shipment date.
• Correspond with customers, freight forwarders, banks, internal personnel, and others via phone and email to ensure prompt and courteous customer satisfaction.  Keep customers abreast of order status and handle order revisions and schedule changes accordingly.
• Set up projects to purchase machinery, machine parts and tooling by the subsidiaries.
• Analyze sales history and buying patterns of customers and subsidiaries and recommend economic order quantities and full package quantities, when feasible, to improve efficiencies.
• Process debits, credits, RMAs (Return Materials Authorizations), as necessary, for subsidiary project billing as well as adjustments to customer invoices.
• Review and approve payments from freight forwarders and determine the amount to be billed to the customer.
• Maintain customer account records with accurate and critical account information.  Update notes to ensure that terms and conditions and special instructions are met.
• Review contracts and terms and conditions for new and ongoing business to ensure compliance and acceptance of contract terms.
• Prepare sales reports and other analysis as necessary.

• Perform additional duties as needed or directed.

   *Qualifications and Requirements *

• Minimum of two years of college. A bachelor's degree in business or marketing is preferred. 

• Two to four years of previous work experience in a customer service environment, preferably in a Manufacturing or export setting.  
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, primarily Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The ideal candidate would have prior experience with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, especially IFS.  
• A motivated individual who is organized, enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, and can meet critical deadlines. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
• Ability to set priorities and manage time. 
• Possess analytical and problem-solving skills. 
• Possess strong math skills and unit conversion ability.
• Knowledge of the Spanish language would be beneficial. 
• Custom's compliance and hazardous material knowledge preferred.