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| LOGISTICS & OPERATIONS ASSISTANT - 10 MONTH FTC |

| £22,000 - £24,000 PER ANNUM |

| LENTON |

Our client are seeking to appoint a resilient, determined and proactive individual to cover a 10 Month MAT Cover in their Shipping & Logistics team! You will be highly organised with strong operational and commercial skills! You will possess meticulous attention to detail and excellent customer service skills in order to excel within this varied position!
Experience in Logistics or Operations with strong transferable skills is essential.

Responsibilities:

  • Maintain internal records in relation to freight and ancillary costs and investigate any queries
  • Point of escalation for any logistical or documentary issues
  • Administrate and budget purchase orders - allocating freight and haulage costs
  • Monitoring and recording of additional costs, raising debit notes and internal reporting documents
  • Report creation and distribution
  • Liaison between suppliers, external service providers and head office on all issues relating to logistics, shipping and documentation

Skills/Attributes/Experience:

  • Strong computer skills, with a focus on speed and a high-level of accuracy and attention to detail
  • Confidence and ability to pursue deals and not take no for an answer!
  • Ability to prioritise and organise own workload in accordance with commercial demands
  • Good inter-personal skills with the ability to communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing
  • Good problem solving skills, and an ability and enthusiasm to fully investigate problems to a resolution
  • High level of competency in collating data in Excel and report creating
  • Previous experience in haulage, logistics, shipping, import or export is desirable, but not essential

Please only apply for this position if you can evidence, on your CV, the essential elements of the post.

Should this not be the case, you will only receive an automatically generated email response to your application with no further communication.

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