Position: Freight Operations Administrator
Location: Witham, Essex
Salary: up to £28,000
Hours: Mon - Friday 9am-17:30pm
Our client is one of the UK's leading logistics & International Freight Forwarding businesses. They currently employ over 380 staff and rapidly growing.
Due to continued growth plans for 2024 and beyond we are now hiring a Freight Operations Administrator to join our dynamic team in Witham, Essex.
Freight Operations Administrator Position:
We now have a vacancy for an operational administrator with freight forwarding or logistics experience to join a team handling groupage trailers to various European destinations.
Main Duties
- Help to plan Export Groupage trailers.
- Responsible for monthly P&L on designated service(s).
- Develop key service relationships with customers and overseas agents to provide an efficient and effective service.
- Choosing the most effective and profitable means of transportation when dealing with several agents in the same country
- Quotations for customers, negotiating the best possible rate for the company and ensuring that exporting trailers is maximised.
- Ensuring appropriate transportation is used for goods to be transported
- To ensure good internal communication between key departments, customer handling, Transport and warehouse.
- Provide completed manifest to warehouse
- Complying with all Exportation Documentation
- Ensuring good Geographic knowledge of the country you are servicing.
- Resolving and managing queries and complaints courteously and efficiently
- Ensuring site and customer objectives are achieved
- Gain a full understanding of our ISO/AEO systems
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary dependent on experience
- 25 days annual leave 8 bank holidays
- Discount Platform
- Full training and support
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee assistance program
- Extensive learning opportunities
- Employee Engagement Forum
- Reward and Recognition programme
- Monthly Pay Day Treat Day
WR Logistics are the #1 recruitment partner for all vacancies in the logistics industry. We recruit UK wide for permanent and contract jobs.
WR is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.