Home based with 2 days per week in head office in Burton On Trent – flexibility required
A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join a well-established company that specialise in providing goods for clinical trials globally. Your role will include sourcing and arranging the most efficient and cost effective way of transporting goods globally primarily by air freight
Responsibilities
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Arranging inbound shipments with couriers in relation to supplier and warehouse requirements
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Generation of inbound documentation on the companies systems
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Scheduling, arranging, and managing inbound shipments with the companies warehouses as per the applicable warehouse SOP’s
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Receipting stock within and ensuring effective stock inventory management
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Managing outbound shipments with couriers (air & road) once arranged by Key Account Manager
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Scheduling, arranging, and managing outbound shipments with the warehouses as per the specific warehouse SOP’s
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Monitoring and tracking of inbound and outbound shipments to customers ensuring deliveries are OTIF and escalating delays
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Completion of stock despatches including generation of Invoices
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Maintaining effective and complete documentation for all shipments (inbound and outbound) on the Salesforce system within the defined KPI’s.
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Assisting Commercial with the closure of Order packs (following up on missing documents etc.)
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Assisting the Director of Operations with shipment issues, quality events and deviations including investigations into events and documenting within the Quality Management System
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Attending meetings with courier’s with the Director of Operations; minuting, raising issues, scheduling meetings
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Attending meetings with warehouses with the Director of Operations; minuting, raising issues, scheduling meetings
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Investigating and recording quality events and deviations such as temperature excursions during transit, shipment delays
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Trending SLA compliance with couriers and warehouses such as documentation returns and escalating when required
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Assisting with the reconciliation of shipping costs
Sills/Attributes
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Previous experience within arranging global shipping
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Excellent organisational and communication skills
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Proactive in problem solving
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Ability to work on own initiative