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Senior Shipping Coordinator

NJR Recruitment
Oldham Full-time
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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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