Logistics/ Shipping Co-ordinator

Do you want to work for a prestigious SME who are going through a pivotal point in their growth strategy? I am working exclusively with my client to recruit an experienced Logistics/Shipping Co-ordinator responsible for arranging, coordinating, and tracking movements/shipments while ensuring the required legal paperwork is completed correctly, received, and saved to ensure compliance with the relevant regulations.

The key responsibilities are:

• Planning and setting up jobs and allocating work to customers and hauliers.
• Uploading or creating jobs within SAP/WR1.
• Communicating and/or escalating issues, price changes, and surcharges appropriately and promptly.
• External monthly customer and supplier visits to attending meetings.
• Producer(monthly) and Offtake site visits(quarterly) for meetings.
• Attendance of vessel loadings and material inspections as and when required.
• Caretaking all aspects (e.g. bookings, documentation, communications, etc) of all loads on allocated routes from collection to delivery.
• Utilising SAP/WR1 to record all jobs, and with attention to detail, ensuring all costs and charges are correctly and accurately recorded therein.
• Ensuring that all paperwork is accurately generated, sent, received and filed using a standardised format. .
• Making decisions that maximise loads and profitability, including using preferred hauliers and referencing back to the required haulier mix.
• Proactively monitor activities to anticipate issues as early as possible and take steps to resolve and/or communicate to the Head of Logistics and Service Delivery.
• Working with the accounts and sales teams to manage customer credit limits and helping ensure that customers stay within them.
• Raising purchase orders, sales orders and sales invoices in line with company procedures and required timescales.
• Managing the customs process for all exports and imports on their allocated job portfolio.
• Updating Haulier Portals with Paperwork/UCR/MRNsetc..
• Have regular update meetings with customers and suppliers to build on and cement relationships.
• Being aware of month-ends, company processes, and procedures around these events, and ensuring that all costs are accurately confirmed or estimated and included in the system prior to close.
• Assisting the Head of Service Delivery to ensure operational coverage and efficiency is maintained at all times.
• Assisting the Head of Compliance & the Compliance team in ensuring and maintaining compliance with the necessary regulations and company requirements.

Skills and Attributes

• Must have a minimum of 3 years or more relevant experience of transfrontier shipment (TFS) regulations
• Customs clearance experience post-Brexit.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.
• Ability to work in a pressurised and reactive environment.
• Strong commercial awareness and numeracy skills
• Attention to detail, with a desire to achieve with care and accuracy
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise workload
• Experience and proficiency in using Microsoft Office applications and SAP/WR1

To be successful in the role you will have a full clean driving licence and your own transport. The role is offered on a Hybrid basis with flexible working if required. This is an amazing opportunity for a candidate with the relevant logistics and shipping background to work for a company that not only looks after their staff from a financial perspective but that also offers excellent progression for the right individual!-o