Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm
Holiday Cover: Flexibility required to work until 7:00pm when required
We are looking for an experienced and highly organised Export Department Senior Supervisor to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day activities of the export department, ensuring freight is processed, loaded and dispatched accurately and on time.
Key Responsibilities
- Preparing customer quotations and pricing
- Processing invoicing and general data input
- Liaising with customers, depots and hauliers
- Arranging collections and deliveries throughout the UK and Ireland
- Coordinating with other departments to ensure collections are completed on time
- Proactively informing customers and depots of any delays or operational issues
- Supervising the loading of outbound trailers
- Supervising the offloading of collection and delivery vehicles
- Ensuring freight is correctly routed and dispatched to the appropriate delivery depot
- Supervising and supporting administrative shipping clerks and warehouse shipping personnel
- Ensuring efficient communication between the office, warehouse, customers, depots and transport partners
- Helping maintain a high standard of accuracy, service and operational efficiency within the department
- Good geographical knowledge of the UK
- Valid forklift licence
- Strong organisational and communication skills
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and manage competing priorities
- Flexible approach to working hours and operational requirements
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Previous supervisory or team-leader experience
- Previous experience within freight, transport, shipping or logistics
- Experience coordinating UK and Ireland collections and deliveries
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will be reliable, proactive and extremely flexible, with a strong team-working mentality and the confidence to use their own initiative. They should be comfortable supervising both administrative and warehouse personnel while maintaining excellent communication with customers, depots and hauliers.
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