Air Freight Coordinator

Air Freight Coordinator - Hounslow - Up to 35,000

Our client who are an international logistics company are looking for an Air Freight Coordinator to join their growing team in Hounslow.

Job Purpose:

To provide the effective delivery of valuable cargo consignments for clients via air and road freight.

Job type: Permanent

Hours: Weekly rotation - 08:00am-16:30pm & 09:00am-17:30pm

On offer:

• Salary: Up to 35,000 DOE
• Annual holiday: 20 days plus 8 bank holidays
• Pension
• Death in service

Daily duties:

• Execution of operational tasks including handling daily imports, exports, customs clearance and deliveries as directed.
• Create, maintain and complete job shipment files on relevant in-house systems.
• Also create, maintain and complete hard copy files of these shipments. Ensuring all relevant paperwork (Shipment request, AWB's, security receipts etc) are kept within.
• Co-ordinate shipments with relevant UK and international vendors ensuring proactive communications at all times.
• Creation of relevant documents for all shipments, including AWB's, guard sheets and other.
• Effective and proactive communications with the customer, providing full details of all stages of the shipment process
• Special projects and other reasonable tasks / duties as delegated by Operations Manager.
• Maintain meaningful vendor relationships ensuring security and service expectations are preserved.
• Escalate any major customer issues.
• Offer ideas to improve and standardise operations.
• Provide operational coverage for colleagues as directed.
• Highlight jobs at negative and limited margin to the Operations Manager.
• Ensure Jobs are costed correctly on the system in a timely manner
• Feedback on job related cost variances as requested.
• Embrace new ways of working
• Understand the sales process and undertake elements of this as part of role
• Good time management ensuring work is completed in line with daily business requirements
• Ad hoc tasks as directed.

Experience required:

• Previous operational/coordinating experience within a logistics environment.
• Previous experience of customs entries (imports/exports).
• Good working knowledge of customs procedures
• Good to fluent knowledge of software from ASM Sequoia
• Experienced in Airfreight.
• Understanding of Cargowise

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