Trade Development Assistant

2 weeks ago


Ipswich, United Kingdom MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company (UK) Full time

**Trade Development Assistant**
**Permanent, full time (Based in Ipswich)**
The successful applicant will support the team in all aspects of the Import East & West Med and Canary Islands trade, this will include regular communication with Geneva Liners and other MSC European offices, providing operational, regulatory, and commercialsupport as well as statistical analysis as and when required.
A major part of the role will be obtaining and updating data for use by Geneva and European agents in the control of bookings within allocations, managing bookings with customer services to ensure, where required agreed allocations are not exceeded.
There will also be close communication with customer service and operational teams to direct and manage cargo feeding to European and global ports to ensure customers are kept fully informed as well as handling of daily, weekly, and monthly reports.
Initially this will be a data, reporting and process driven role with the opportunity to develop and improve processes both within the team as well as potentially the wider organisation and will give someone the opportunity to achieve an in-depth understandingof the business for someone who wants to help develop, strengthen, influence, and grow a trade in line with HQ strategies.
**Core responsibilities**:

- Gather data, schedule information and rate agreement details, to combine and produce data for use in allocation system using in house systems such as Flint, Avery, TMS
- Produce and issue daily vessel reports as part of allocation reporting
- Produce vessel and revenue reports for analysis within the UK and Geneva
- Establish and maintain good client relationships
- Maintain specials, contracts, and tariffs
- Client & Geneva visit preparation
- Review competition schedules online and produce report for review to Geneva and agents
- Assist with day-to-day quotations and tenders
- Support the Trade Development Manager as required on an ongoing basis
- Any other support as is required on the job from time to time

**Qualifications, skills and experience**:

- Strong IT skills especially Excel pivot tables and equations, PowerPoint, PowerBI and Word
- Organised and methodical approach to work to ensure accuracy of reporting along with ensuring that all strict deadlines are met
- Strong analytical skills and be able to present data / information to inform and help form strategies and or market understanding
- Be able to work on own initiative and problem solve
- A balanced understanding of operational and commercial demands
- Confidence to make sound fact-based decisions, be professional, ready willing and able to communicate, internally and externally
- A balanced, results driven approach
- Be a team player with a flexible can-do approach to work

**Added value**:
Experience in different fields and topics is always valuable, so if you happen to have any of the following expertise it may be viewed favourably:

- Experience of acquiring new and nurture/develop existing business
- Understanding and experience of shipping terminology and customs



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