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Are you a meticulous and adaptable individual with a knack for logistics? We're looking for a Shipping Coordinator to join our dynamic Supply Chain team in Peterborough. This is a pivotal role where you'll be instrumental in ensuring our products reach our global customers efficiently and compliantly.
The Opportunity
As a Shipping Coordinator, you'll be a key player in planning, arranging, and processing shipments for our worldwide customer base. You'll work closely with carriers and customers to ensure smooth operations from dispatch to delivery.
What You'll Do
- Arrange shipments of products to customers based on available stock.
- Coordinate with carriers and customers to establish collection schedules.
- Send all essential documentation for shipments to the necessary contacts.
- Prepare, submit, and record export entries for goods sent overseas.
What You'll Bring
We're looking for someone who embodies Service Excellence, Accuracy and Attention to Detail, Flexibility and Adaptability, and has a strong understanding of Import/Export and Transportation.
Specifically, you'll have:
- Service Excellence: A commitment to exceeding customer needs and expectations, providing excellent service directly and indirectly. You'll be skilled at resolving common customer problems and responding to unexpected requests with urgency.
- Accuracy and Attention to Detail: The ability to complete tasks with high precision, learning from mistakes, and using checklists to ensure error-free information.
- Flexibility and Adaptability: A comfort with change, adjusting to new assignments and processes, and an openness to different opinions and approaches.
- Import/Export Knowledge: Experience with the issues, procedures, and practices of importing and exporting, including completing required documentation for repetitive transactions and ensuring compliance with HMRC.
- Transportation Knowledge: Familiarity with arranging transportation of goods, ensuring on-time shipments, and resolving shipping problems. You'll have experience with at least one transportation mode and carrier.
Bonus Points For
- Experience working with HMRC duty suspension schemes.
- Familiarity with regulatory procedures like Incoterms and SOX.
Ready to Apply?
If you're ready to make an impact in a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you!
Location: Peterborough, PE1 5NA.
To apply, please use the apply button below or call Danielle on (phone number removed).
Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
