Import Coordinator - Civic Centre, United Kingdom - Reed Procurement & Supply Chain

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Reed are currently seeking an Import Coordinator to join the team of one of our most prestigious clients based in Manchester.

If you have the experience required for this role & wish to be submitted, please submit your CV or contact David Henger of ReedLiverpool

Thank you


Key Duties.
**- To ensure compliance with the customs regulations of the UK, through
internal notifications and customs web site

  • To transpose customs declaration information from documents, and or other
data sources into the customs brokerage system accurately

  • To manage and meet required internal and external KPIs specific to the
customer base

  • To build and maintain strong relationships with the customer base
  • To be responsible for arranging and completing all associated paperwork,
which documents the nature of the goods being imported from abroad and
that they are legal and legitimate

  • Ensuring all is in order in relation to import quotas, customs tariffs, trade
agreements and HM Revenue and customs regulations

  • To keep up to date on all regulatory requirements governing imports.
  • Being commercially aware of job costings and profitability, ensuring maximum
profitability for the organisation

  • Ability to manage deadlines and sometimes difficult situations.
  • Accountable for printing and active allocation of all prealerts to ensure files
are not missed and handed out promptly to the individuals within the
department, on a daily basis

  • Using in house tools to monitor and update shipment ETA's to the
specific customer base and also used to ensure shipments are not missed.**
To ensure that all deliveries (within remit) are arranged 2 weeks prior to

vessel arrival at port, the same to be booked with hauliers.
**- To ensure that customs formalities are completed at least 3 days prior to
delivery of goods if possible

  • To effectively communicate any delays to the customer deliveries in advance
  • To ensure that if declaring any values on deferment account for duty/vat
these should be billed onto the customer same day as declaration

  • To ensure all files to be passed over to operations manager for billing within
2hrs of delivery of goods, each file should contain a full set of documents
uploaded to Edocs, copy entry, origin invoices, origin profit shares.

  • To be prepared to be flexible, accommodating and assisting elsewhere in the
team as and when required

  • To escalate and issues or problems in a timely manner

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