NJR Recruitment
Senior Shipping Coordinator
Salary dependent upon experience
Oldham – Hybrid Working
Are you an experienced Shipping Coordinator looking to work for a leading organisation that is going through an exciting period of growth?
Our Client is a leading importer, supplying major retailers in the UK and due to their ever-expanding growth they now have an excellent opportunity for an experienced candidate to join their team.
Role Overview
The Shipping Coordinator / Analyst will link the Shipping and Merchandising functions, managing open orders and providing support and input to the wider Team on shipments and supplier performance.
Responsibilities:
- Purchase order management post order placement.
- Establish relationships with suppliers, driving improvement in service levels.
- Monitor and chase suppliers for bookings based on shipment report / order book dates.
- Collation, distribution, and management of supplier shipment reports.
- Customs clearance queries and import processes.
- Monitor supplier performance to agreed lead times.
- Update the wider business on movement of vessels, shipments as they happen.
- Maintain close relationship with freight forwarder.
- Manage vessel schedule information with nominated freight forwarder.
- Communicating date movements to the relevant merch teams as required.
- Support critical path discussions ensuring correct vessels met to hit launch.
- Management of air freights post instruction from merchandiser.
- Support improvement initiatives covering people, processes, and systems.
- Make recommendations to improve current processes within Supply Chain and Shipping.
The successful candidate will need to have previous experience working as a Shipping Coordinator – preferably within retailer/importer environment with knowledge of imports customs processes. You will have excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office & Excel as well as solid communication & articulation skills and can multitask.
Apply online or for further information please contact one of our specialist consultants quoting reference number: NJR16411
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