Job Description

An exciting opportunity for a client and supplier facing professional with strong negotiation skills and deep understanding of international logistics to join a leading global 3PL.


The successful candidate with have a high level of autonomy, taking full ownership of managing the logistics team, liaising and advising clients on shipping solutions, managing carrier relationships and deliver end-to-end inbound, outbound and reverse logistic solutions across a multi-brand, multi-channel business.


Duties and Responsibilities:


Responsible in building strong commercial relationships with both domestic and global carriers/suppliers
Proactive and pivotal role in annual contract negotiations
Provide support to our network of global fulfilment centres, ensuring transportation capacity needs are secured based on proactive planning and forecasting consignment volumes across the year
Identifying and overseeing the onboarding of new carriers into the network
Establish reporting across the entire carrier base, as well as clear communication of performance and building on KPIs and SLAs
Responsible for all client communications, in particular timely notification of changes in carrier rates, carrier solutions and compliance changes
Analyse patterns and trends in data to better understand key lanes and optimise client's carrier solutions
Manage the supply, quality, and deliveries are in line with SLA with each carrier and challenge where appropriate
Point of escalation and seen as an "expert" in the business to address carrier issues across different stakeholder groups
Direct line management of a small team of logistic specialists, including coaching, mentoring and managing appraisal processes
Develop knowledge across internal and external stakeholders with regards to international customs requirements and procedures, dangerous goods requirements, etc


Skills and Experience Required:


Minimum of 5 years' experience (having attained manager level) dealing with or working within a logistics function, supply chain function or carrier business
Highly organised with the ability to prioritise own workload
Strong base knowledge of incoterms and how to ship goods internationally from a duty paid and unpaid basis.
Ideally dangerous goods trained (IATA and/or ADR) and demonstrable experience of shipping restrictions/compliance requirements
Excellent IT skills including MS Office 365 and Databases
Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
A problem solver with the ability to self-manage
Strong commercial acumen with demonstrable experience of negotiating contracts and an understanding of margins


Benefits:


23 days holiday + Bank Holidays (increasing with length of service)
Westfield Health Cash Plan (after probationary period)
Birthday off
Free onsite parking
Partner Discounts
Company events