Freight Forwarding Specialist

2 months ago

Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom AVASK Full time

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Shipping Operations Manager to join our team at AVASK Accounting & Business Consultants. As a key member of our operations team, you will be responsible for delivering exceptional shipping strategies and daily operations.

About the Role:

  • Foster strong relationships with clients, ensuring innovative solutions and compliance with UK legislation.
  • Work closely with Service Partners to ensure high service levels and client satisfaction.
  • Review pricing strategies and conduct profit margin analysis to maintain competitiveness.
  • Participate actively in day-to-day operations for shipping, import/export, and freight forwarding requirements.
  • Implement controls to minimize errors and ensure procedures are fully implemented.
  • Support business development and marketing initiatives for freight forwarding, shipping, and import/export services.
  • Identify and drive leads to the business, ensuring high levels of successful engagement.
  • Support leadership in defining function and objectives, strategy, and executing initiatives.
  • Assist in cross-functional process analysis and development of effective policies and procedures for the UK office.
  • Analyze and interpret external and internal data, writing reports.
  • Deliver exceptional customer service to internal and external customers.
  • Contribute to the development of software systems to deliver business efficiencies and improved customer experience.

Requirements:

  • Strong commercial awareness and experience as a Shipping Manager or similar role.
  • Solid knowledge of shipping, import/export, and freight forwarding procedures.
  • Experience with preparing financial reports, forecasts, and budgets.
  • Strong Excel skills and quantitative, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Ability to set priorities, multitask, meet deadlines, and pay attention to detail.
  • Highly organized and motivated self-starter with good interpersonal communication skills.

What We Offer:

  • 25 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays with the option of purchasing up to 5 extra days through salary sacrifice.
  • Birthday off after 1 year of service.
  • Pension scheme with Royal London with employee contributions of minimum 5% and employer contributions of 3.
  • A collaborative culture of continuous learning with Learning and Development opportunities for career progression.
  • Private Healthcare Insurance with Vitality Health care after completing probationary period.
  • Cycle2Work scheme available through salary sacrifice.
  • DIS (Death in service) available after completing probationary period.
  • Creative spacious offices with breakout areas and subsidised canteen with Chef offering freshly cooked breakfast and lunches.

About AVASK:

AVASK Accounting & Business Consultants is a rapidly expanding firm specialising in international VAT and tax and accounting for e-commerce businesses located internationally and in the UK.

We are recommended External Tax Advisors under the Amazon Global Selling Programme and assist hundreds of Amazon FBA sellers, eBay, Shopify, and other platforms.

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