Commercial Assitant, Hillebrand Gori

**About Hillebrand Gori - a company of DHL Global Forwarding**

Hillebrand Gori is the Beers, Wines, and Spirits Powerhouse within the freight forwarding division of DHL. Hillebrand was founded as a family business in 1844 and was acquired by DHL in March 2022.

Are you passionate about shipping, beverages, innovation, and customer service? Would you strive daily to offer technological and innovative solutions to support our customers’ products throughout their journey, guiding them to their destination? Then Hillebrand Gori, a company of DHL is the place for you.

Hillebrand Gori people love what they do. Our people are passionate about logistics and the commodities we ship. We understand how much the logistics process matters to our customers, so they work with them as partners.

**JOB TITLE**

Commercial Executive

**DEPARTMENT**

Commercial - GBC (Grays)

**FUNCTION**

Procurement

**REPORTS TO**

Commercial Manager

**ROLE PURPOSE**
- Be a business partner for sales and operations within the procurement / commercial function.
- Source / appoint / manage and measure suppliers in line with agreed service levels (SLA’s) and business requirements.
- Provide ad hoc pricing as required to the sales department and overseas offices and update internal systems accordingly
- Deliver value by deploying best practice / best value carriers.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**

Strategic
- Run annual and ad hoc tenders as required
- Ensure utilisation of appointed carriers by operations
- Supplier Relationship Management - utilising and updating an SRM template

Deployment
- Carrier appointment
- Oversee supplier performance through Service Level Agreement creation / maintenance along with specific Key Performance Indicators

Management
- Promote efficiency and profitability by encouraging and facilitating a climate of best practice and quality throughout the supplier base / departments
- Develop and maintain standard tariffs for all traffic types (as required)
- Organise and attend Regular carrier meetings in line with the SRM
- Actively promote and maintain Group culture, style and standards within the company

Reporting
- Savings tracker to be completed monthly in line with budgeted savings
- Carrier forecasting and volume review (completed monthly) in line with the SRM
- Tracking KPI’s

**ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES**
- The above duties are not an exhaustive list. The jobholder may be required to undertake additional duties as the needs of the business dictate.

**MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES**
- None

**KEY CONTACTS**
- Internal

Operations, Sales, Finance
- External

Carriers, Industry network

**SPECIAL WORKING CONDITIONS**
- None

**PERFORMANCE INDICATORS**
- As per Commercial objectives defined within Workday

**BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY**
- None

**COMPETENCIES FOR THE ROLE**

**ESSENTIAL**

**DESIRABLE**

**PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/ SKILLS**
- Freight Forwarding experience
- Import Experience:

- European trailer, intermodal and deep sea.
- Supply Chain experience

**PERSONAL SKILLS**
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Good Negotiation skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Self-motivated and able to work without supervision
- Experienced team player
- Able to work under pressure
- Enthusiastic and driven to achieve targets and objectives
- Be able to forward plan and think outside the box

**LANGUAGE SKILLS**
- Excellent verbal & written English
- Other European Languages

**COMPUTER SKILLS**
- Good computer skills including:
Microsoft Excel

Outlook

Word
- Knowledge of

Salesforce

QRS

Axis 2

Flow

**EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS**
- Good standard of general education