Our long established logistics Client specialises in air and sea freight solutions for their blue chip customers in the UK and across the globe. They are now looking to appoint an experienced Air & Sea Import Operator in Slough.
On a day-to-day basis youll be dealing with companies worldwide, liaising with overseas agents / customers / hauliers, handling all aspects of imports from start to finish and everything in between, including charging files and processing purchase invoices. This Air & Sea Import Operator vacancy is offered on a full-time permanent basis, Monday to Friday with no weekend working required!
In return our Client is offering a salary up to 35k for the right person. Its a great opportunity for someone who wants to progress their career at a like-minded company.
We’d love to speak to enthusiastic people who have been working as an Air & Sea Import Operator / Import Clerk / Import Coordinator etc. or people who have a good operational know-how of import procedures, excellent customer service skills and experience of LCL and FCL from a freight / logistics background. Being a proficient communicator; in person, on the phone and in writing and having commercial sense are vital attributes for successful Import Operators.
If you’ve got what it takes, please Apply Now immediately. This Client really appreciates the value of their staff and actively recruits highly skilled staff from multifarious backgrounds enabling them to offer an infinite range of specialised logistics options.
Duties of the Air & Sea Import Operator:
- Manage bookings from start to finish
- Develop relationships with allocated customers
- Issue booking instructions to origin offices
- Process Import bookings
- Proactively inform customer on shipment status, exceptions and provide intermediate updates on incident solution
- Process UK Customs Clearance
- Handle customer inquiries
- Take and register all customer complaints and drive solution of customer complaints by solving it directly or assigning tasks to other function
- Ensure correct charges are highlighted / passed for billing
Key skills required for the Air & Sear Import Operator:
- Strong background in Air and Ocean Freight Forwarding
- Good Administrative and MS Excel skills
- Working knowledge of Sequoia, would be a distinct advantage.
- Results driven and good attention to detail
- Good interpersonal skills
- Ability to build relationships with customers
- Able to prioritise, perform under pressure and work using own initiative
Import Operators are currently in very high demand. Jobs are being filled very quickly at the moment!
Red Recruit also has other freight-forwarding vacancies, so please do get in touch to tell us what youre looking for and well do our best to assist.