A leading Multi-National logistics and freight forwarding organisation, offering sea, air, and road freight forwarding services as well as providing warehousing, customs clearance, storage and logistics solutions for clients of all sizes, is looking to recruit a Customs Supervisor, to be based at offices in the London, Heathrow area.
On Offer:
- A competitive salary, up to £50k, in line with skills and experience
- The opportunity to be part of a widely expanding Freight Forwarding Specialist which has seen unprecedented growth in recent years
- The chance to be an active member of a motivated and enthusiastic team
- Monday – Friday working pattern with WFH flexibility
- Length of service holiday increases
- Company pension
- Refer a friend & bonus incentives
- Regular social events
Duties and Responsibilities of the Customs Supervisor:
- Reporting to the Customs Manager
- Manage your staff schedule so that the team is sufficiently staffed at all times (including after hours and weekends); thus, ensuring operational and service levels are maintained
- Ensuring that staff are trained in relevant areas of customs, compliance, and operations
- Monitoring day-to-day workload through Cargowise reports.
- Pro-active monitoring of operations to ensure issues are found and resolved with preventative measures put in place.
- Responsible for import & export trailers customs clearances within the agreed timeframe prior to the truck reaching the border.
- Assisting the customs compliance team as required.
- Ensuring high standard of accuracy in customs declarations are produced by your team.
- Ensure that your team adhere to the DEFRA notification requirements.
To Be Considered:
- Strong experience with customs clearance import operations is essential
- Strong CDS knowledge essential
- Experience with perishable goods would be advantageous
- Use of Cargowise advantageous
- Strong English, Written and verbal communication skills
- Confident, adaptable and proactive in your approach
- Ability to multi task and prioritise assignments based on urgency
- Confident in using sound knowledge and good judgement for best practice
- Ability to make good decisions within the correct timeframes
- Work well under critical situations
- Coaching, training, developing others and identifying needs
- Collaboration and building relationships that influence others to ger things done
- Managed change and continual process improvements
For full details, please contact Willis Global – a leading Recruitment Consultancy for the Supply Chain & Logistics industry