Customer Service Manager - Logistics & 3PL

Customer Service Manager-Logistics & 3PL - Owensboro, KY

Be a part of a revolutionary change!

At Philip Morris International (PMI), we've chosen to do something incredible. We're totally transforming our business and building our future on one clear purpose - to deliver a smoke-free future.

With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, if you join us, you'll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions. Our success depends on people who are committed to our purpose and have an appetite for progress.

Our Customer Service Manager - Logistics & 3PL is responsible for delivering worldclass customer service across the transportation, warehousing, and distribution network. This role serves as the primary operational liaison between customers, internal teams, and thirdparty logistics (3PL) partners to ensure seamless order fulfillment and an exceptional endtoend customer experience.

This position focuses on proactive service management, realtime issue resolution, and continuous improvement of customerfacing logistics processes. Success in this role is driven by high ontime, infull (OTIF) performance, effective escalation management, accurate information flow, and strong servicelevel communication from order placement through final delivery.

This position sits with our Swedish Match affiliate.

Your 'day to day'

• Lead the logistics customer service function, ensuring timely, accurate, and professional responses to customer inquiries, shipment status requests, service exceptions, and escalations.
• Monitor and manage key service KPIs including OTIF, fill rate, order accuracy, and service levels; develop and publish daily and weekly performance dashboards for internal leadership and customers.
• Partner crossfunctionally with transportation, warehousing, planning, and 3PL providers to proactively resolve shipment delays, inventory constraints, carrier issues, capacity challenges, and delivery errors.
• Manage customer order flows, including prioritization, expediting, allocation clarification, and risktopromise communication, ensuring clear and reliable order visibility.
• Oversee service recovery activities, including delivery exceptions, reshipments, returns, order defects, and freight claims; lead rootcause analysis and corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Act as the voice of the customer within the logistics network, ensuring SLAs, service commitments, and customer requirements are clearly documented and operationalized across distribution centers and 3PL partners.
• Facilitate customer business reviews (QBRs/MBRs), providing service analytics, KPI trends, and continuous improvement roadmaps to enhance transparency and strengthen customer relationships.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives using Lean and KPI/KCI methodologies to improve service reliability, streamline workflows, reduce customer friction points, and enhance logisticstocustomer connectivity.

Who we're looking for:

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, Management, or a related field; equivalent experience will be considered.
• 5+ years of experience in customer service, logistics coordination, order management, transportation support, or 3PL operations.
• Proven experience supporting large retail or manufacturing customers, including EDI order management, route guides, service metrics, and escalations.
• Strong understanding of logistics KPIs, including OTIF, fill rate, and servicelevel performance reporting.
• Experience with TMS, WMS, and ERP platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle, D365 F&O, or equivalent).
• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, data analysis/modeling).
• Experience developing dashboards and analytics using Power BI or Tableau.
• Solid understanding of transportation networks, warehouse operations, and endtoend order lifecycles.
• Working knowledge of Lean principles, rootcause analysis, and KPI/KCI reporting.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Customerfocused, actionoriented, and resultsdriven
• Strong problemsolving and prioritization capabilities
• Composed and effective in highpressure or escalated situations
• Skilled in negotiation, conflict management, and stakeholder communication

Leadership Competencies

• Relationship building and crossfunctional collaboration
• Process and systemsdriven mindset
• Sound decisionmaking and business acumen
• Operational and organizational agility
• Ability to manage through influence within complex networks

Annual Base Salary Range: $ 104,000 - $130,000

What's 'nice to have'

Legally authorized to work in the U.S. (required)

What we offer

We offer a competitive base salary, annual bonus (applicable based on level of position), great medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k with a generous company match, incredible wellness benefits, and much more!

Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We'll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore.

Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture where everyone's contribution is respected; Collaborate with some of the world's best people and feel like you belong.

Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business - our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.

Take pride in delivering our promise to society: To improve the lives of millions of smokers.

PMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

PMI is headquartered in Stamford, Conn., and its U.S. affiliates have more than 3,000 employees.

PMI has been an entirely separate company from Altria and Philip Morris USA since 2008. PMI's affiliates first entered the U.S. market following the company's acquisition of Swedish Match in late 2022.Philip Morris International and its U.S. affiliates are working to deliver a smoke-free future. Since 2008, PMI has invested $12.5 billion globally to develop, scientifically substantiate and commercialize innovative smoke-free products for adults who would otherwise continue to smoke with the goal of transitioning legal-age consumers who smoke to better alternatives. In 2022, PMI acquired Swedish Match - a leader in oral nicotine delivery - creating a global smoke-free champion led by the IQOS and ZYN brands. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized versions of PMI's IQOS electronically heated tobacco devices and Swedish Match's General snus as Modified Risk Tobacco Products and renewal applications for these products are presently pending before the FDA. For more information, please visit www.pmi.com/us and www.pmiscience.com.

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