Vendor Booking and Freight Associate

5 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Castore Full time

Castore exists for one single reason - to make athletes better. Our ethos is built upon the philosophy of BETTER NEVER STOPS, an ideal deeply infused in our DNA and something we strive to live every single day. We utilise advanced engineering and unique technical fabrics to create the highest quality sportswear in the world for athletes who demand the very best. Designed with a passion for innovation with specialist features to help to optimise athletic performance in all conditions.

The founders’ vision is to build Castore into a brand respected across the globe for a deep and unrelenting commitment to engineering the highest quality sportswear in the world, with no stone left unturned in its search for innovation and performance enhancement.

The sportswear market has been dominated by a small clique of mass-market brands and the vision is for Castore to be a premium alternative to these, the natural brand of choice for discerning athletes who demand the very best.

**The Role**

An exciting role has been created for a Vendor Booking and Freight Associate to join our growing Operations team, to lead and ensure a successful execution of the inbound operational functions.

Through our partnership profile and exciting growing mainline, the demand for Castore is seeing us partner with the biggest retailers in the market, as well as developing a distribution network on a global scale. This role will play an integral role in helping us deliver against our ambitious growth targets in this hugely strategic channel for our business.

**Responsibilities**
- Develop new & maintain existing relationships with external Freight Forwarders, 3PL’s & internal stakeholders across all departments
- Monitor, compare and report on freight forwarder performance within agreed SLA’s
- Monitor, compare and report on freight forwarder costs and rates
- Manage vendor bookings
- Review and check commercial documentation
- Work closely with Supply Chain team, giving visibility of inbound deliveries to the 3PL
- Distribute a weekly shipment status report highlighting areas of risk
- Weekly product data maintenance, ensuring all product information for the open orderbook is accurate across all systems
- Constantly driving for improvements and efficiencies through the team

**Skills & Qualities**
- Essential Knowledge and Experience:_
- Experience of working in a similar role
- Knowledge of commercial documentation and shipping terms
- Experience of warehouse management and freight forwarder TMS
- Ability to work cross-functionally, liaising with peer groups across the business to drive efficiencies and results
- Ability to work within strict deadlines and able to be adaptive to changes
- Comfortable in a fast-paced and ever-changing business environment
- Excellent planning and organisation skills
- Flexible approach and willingness to further learn & adapt in a fast pace growing business
- Computer literacy (Microsoft suite) Excel, Word, Outlook
- Personal Qualities:_
- Excellent attention to detail & a natural problem solver
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Organisation, planning, able to juggle multiple projects at once
- Confidence in own ability to challenge current ways of working, whilst delivering recommendations for improved process
- Be a team player
- Be results driven
- Excellent communicator written and verbally
- Share our ambitious outlook
- Have a Better Never Stops Attitude

**What We Offer**
- Competitive salary
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Modern city centre offices in Manchester
- An opportunity to work with global sporting partners
- Office breakout space with pool tables, dart board and TV’s
- A chance to build a career with a fast paced, high growth brand
- Employee assistance programme
- Generous staff discount

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