Sea Freight Coordinator

Sea Freight Operations Coordinator – Basildon – Up to £31,000

An opportunity has arisen for a Sea Freight Operations Coordinator to join our client’s team at their office in Basildon.

Office hours: 8:30am – 5:30pm (1-hour unpaid lunch), Monday – Friday (40 hours per week).

Location: Basildon – this role is office based.

Salary: £27,000 – £31,000 per annum (dependent upon experience).

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Assist the Team Leader and Manager in general Sea Freight Operations in the execution of their duties in support of the departmental vision of the company to become more competitive and profitable.
• Understand and execute the departments vision of good business development in order to successfully move Sea Freight products.
• Complete all Import and Cross Trade activities correctly and on time ensuring the Customs declaration forms are completed correctly.
• Immediately report any errors to the customs declaration forms to line manager and customs claims.
• Correctly complete all customs import declaration forms.
• Ensure all operational activities and invoicing are completed on time.
• Complete ad-hoc and spot checks on a weekly basis to check all is in order and we have all documents required.
• Maintain and utilise the operational system at all times.
• Ensure all duties/VAT is charged correctly upon invoicing and collect any monies due in line with SOPs.
• Maintain regular communication with clients, reporting new sales leads and handover of shipments to manager.
• Create new and maintain current SOPs for the department.
• Maintain excellent customer and inter-departmental relationships at all times giving regular feedback to line manager.
• Follow up late customer payments in conjunction with credit control.
• Communicate quotations to the line manager/sales team and ensure all quotations are recorded on the system in one format.
• Implement and improve new efficiencies in customer workflow in conjunction with line manager.
• Ensure all reports are generated by given deadlines and handed to line manager.
• Accurately complete all invoicing for imports and clients.
• Procurement of Ocean Freight rates from the shipping line and co loaders on a monthly basis.

Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum of two years’ Sea Freight operations experience.
• Knowledge of completing customs entries & CDS.
• Attention to detail.Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Must be able to prioritise and organise own workload.
• Must be a team player.

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