General Office Trainee

Our client, a freight forwarder is looking for a General Office Administator to join their office in Grays.

This role will be best suited for a college leaver.

The job role will be on the job training to achieve the below:

• Learning how to use our operating system, leading to assisting their assigned department in booking in shipments
• Learning to communicate with customers both in the UK and overseas
• Quoting customers for shipping
• Arranging deliveries using our internal trucking network as well as 3rd parties
• Supporting the office / management with day-to-day tasks  

• Experience not necessary, so a college leaver would be fine
• This is a desk job, in office.
• Skills we are looking for:
  • Someone who is able to navigate Outlook – creating polite and efficient emails, handling attachments etc.
  • Someone who is has a basic knowledge of excel sheets, using the internet to source information etc.
  • a good telephone manner, English must be their first language
  • of an organised nature, able to multi task
  • keen to lean different aspects of shipping and logistics