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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