Our client is a well-established freight forwarder offering bespoke freight solutions by air freight, sea freight, and road freight. With a global infrastructure, offering a personal service for global companies no matter how small or large the shipment.
We are now recruiting for a Sea Freight Exports Clerk based in Newcastle-under-Lyne. Your role will involve the full sea freight cycle from start to finish
Main Duties
- Booking in GRN's onto the freight system, updating on hand manifests and emailing to overseas customers.
- Taking bookings from customers & agents and making the subsequent bookings with the shipping lines
- Transferring LCL shipments to consol load warehouses.
- Arranging UK haulage when required.
- Competent with NES export declarations and pending CDS declarations.
- Booking in deliveries and sending load paperwork to our warehouse team for container loading
- Submitting VGM's using Destin8 and CNS.
- Sending UCR and Bill of lading instructions to the shipping lines.
- Quoting customers and overseas agents LCL and FCL.
- Raising MBL's and HBL's and all required paperwork for specific markets.
- Organising consular documents when required.
- Sending pre alerts to overseas agents
- Finalising the billing to either customer or overseas agent.
Experience required
- Sea Freight exports experience
- Customer service skills are essential to have good interaction with customers and overseas agents.
- Proficient in word & excel.
- Be cost conscious and profit aware.
- Full training will be given on the inhouse freight system.
Benefits
- Salary circa £27,000 and dependant on experience.
- Hours of work 09:00 - 17:00
- 1 hour for lunch
- 22 days holiday allowance - rising to 31 days depending on length of service.
- Available with an Immediate start.