
Dovetail Recruitment
Job title:
Logistics and Carrier Assistant Manager
Company
Dovetail Recruitment
Job description
Logistics and Carrier Assistant Manager Job In ChristchurchWe are proud to be working with a well-established and thriving distribution company in the Christchurch area. This Logistics and Carrier Assistant Manager job is an exciting opportunity for a supply chain professional with strong negotiation skills and an understanding of international logistics.The successful candidate will be liaising and advising clients on shipping solutions, managing carrier relationships and deliver end-to-end logistic solutions.Salary and Benefits:
- A salary of £30,000 – £35,000 per annum
- 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
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible in building strong commercial relationships with both domestic and global carriers and suppliers
- Provide support to 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
- 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 the “expert” in the business to address carrier issues across different stakeholder groups
- Develop knowledge across internal and external stakeholders with regards to international customs requirements and procedures, dangerous goods requirements, etc
Minimum Skills and Experience Required:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience 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 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
This Logistics and Carrier Assistant Manager would suit candidates who have a supply chain operations background, who are commercially aware.
Expected salary
£30000 – 35000 per year
Location
Christchurch, Dorset
Job date
Fri, 06 Jun 2025 07:39:39 GMT
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