Shipping Specialist

7 months ago


Exeter, United Kingdom People Source Consulting Full time

**Role: Shipping Specialist**

**Location: Exeter (onsite role)**

**Salary: competitive**

**Job Purpose**:
You will work across the business and with our external shipping agents to complete all paperwork and legal requirements to complete customs entries and associated documents in a timely manner to ensure the smooth movement of end-to-end consignments.

**Key Tasks and Responsibilities**

**Duties**:

- Dealing with Sea freight, air freight and road freight imports, exports
- Liaising and maintaining relationships with third party freight forwarders and agents
- Awareness of customs entries, procedures
- End to end monitoring of shipments
- Reconciliation of HMRC Management Support System reports to shipments including collection and maintenance of all shipping documentation as required, including signatures, way bills, declarations, tracking information etc
- Awareness of shipping costing
- Create, manage and track all shipping Carnet’s
- Legal awareness of shipping processes and procedures
- Liaising with shipping agents
- Updating all departments on their shipments
- Check pending clearances that are being examined or held in bonded warehouses
- Dealing with domestic and international shipping via, DHL and FedEx
- Deal with queries or Customs post actions as appropriate
- Preparation of quarterly insurance declarations for tools movements
- Any other delegated tasks deemed as reasonable as assigned by the reporting manager

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Experience of import, export within a commercial environment
- Ability to grasp procedures/processes quickly.
- Ability to communicate well both verbally and in the written form
- Ability for pay attention to detail and work in an accurate and methodical way
- Ability to handle pressure and good time-management
- Ability to adapt to change and work effectively as part of a team
- Experience in customs is an advantage

**Benefits**:

- Working in an entrepreneurial environment with state-of-the-art technology
- Competitive salary, in line with current UK market rates
- Auto enrolment pension (Royal London)
- 5% employee contribution /3% employer contribution (through salary sacrifice)
- Death In service benefit (Aviva)
- Critical illness cover (Aviva)
- Counselling Service
- Group Income Protection Cover (Canada Life)
- 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays.
- Employee bonding events (BBQ, Quiz night, running club etc)
- Flexible working / dentist / doctors’ appointments
- Professional membership subscription paid yearly.
- Christmas Function
- Long Service Award
- Cycle Scheme - Salary sacrifice

**How to apply?**

People Source Consulting Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. People Source specialise in technology recruitment across niche markets including Information Technology, Digital TV, Digital Marketing, Project and Programme Management, SAP, Digital and Consumer Electronics, Air Traffic Management, Management Consultancy, Business Intelligence, Manufacturing, Telecoms, Public Sector, Healthcare, Finance and Oil & Gas.



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