
Shipping Agent (f/m/d)
- Warrington, Cheshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Processing and scheduling of shipping orders by truck, rail, sea and air freight, and relevant control and execution of import / export activities
- Compliance with legal requirements and framework conditions
- Knowledge of customs and foreign trade law
- Creation and provision of all documents required for shipping: delivery notes packing lists, forwarding and transport orders, labels, certificates, postal papers, customs papers, invoices (using SAP)
- Advise the shipments to the respective forwarding agents and plan the freight space
- Monitoring the timely and appropriate order processing
- Preparation of papers for rail transport; web applications, Transporeon & NEWS (In House System)
- Handling of customs formalities and handling of customs filing
- Ensure compliance with the stipulated provisions for letters of credit
- Obtaining and evaluating offers for air and sea freight and processing of the respective freight documents in accordance with the specifications of the IMS system
- Handling of special transports (spools, retrievals from consignment warehouses, contract finishers, empty pallets etc)
- Document scrap outgoings and draw up the associated freight documents
- Check / arrange / confirm freight cost invoice/credit
- Memo procedures for forwarding services based on transport orders
- Close cooperation with other departments, especially planning, quality, sales, packaging, loading
- Monitoring plans -v- actual quantities delivered
- Escalation of process deviations, work to resolve with internal and external partners
- Daily control on inventories and initiation of inventory reduction measures with the framework of the specifications
- Develop, update and monitor the daily and weekly KPIs
- You have experience within the shipping environment, logistics, international transport or equivalent
- You have excellent computer skills such as MS Office, especially Excel
- Knowledge of SAP, Power BI and logistics software are an advantage
- You work excellently in a team with dynamism, proactivity and initiative manners
- You are willing to learn and develop within an innovative, global company