Senior Shipping Coordinator

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