Shipping Coordinator

Your New Job Title: Shipping Coordinator
Your New Salary: c£30k (plus excellent company benefits including company bonus, wine discount, interest free season ticket loan)
Location: Central London, five days a week in the office
Working hours: Monday - Friday 9am - 6pm
Job status: Maternity Cover 9 month contract, may extend to 12 months
Start date: ASAP
The Skills You'll Need: Supply Chain, Advanced Excel, Planning, Logistics, Wine

Who You'll Be Working for: Well established and highly regarded wine business.

Shipping Coordinator - What You'll be Doing Each Day:

Main responsibilities:

• Establishing demand and ordering stocks from Europe and Deep Sea suppliers
• Track and trace of Purchase orders from wine suppliers to the company's warehouses
• Manage vintage changeover and slow moving stock processes
• Ordering and shipping wines
• Placing and tracking direct orders for delivery to various customers around the world

Specific responsibilities:

• Forecasting, replenishing and monitoring European and Deep Sea stocks
• Ordering, shipping and monitoring of stocks from Europe and Deep Sea suppliers
• Raise monthly replenishment purchase orders in the ERP system
• Liaise with wine suppliers regarding availability dates
• Liaise with shippers around collection dates, despatch dates and arrival dates
• Update our ERP system with revised arrival dates
• Co-ordinate and manage the vintage changeover process with the Buying department
• Placing and tracking direct orders for delivery to customers around the world
• Point of sale support for the Buying, Broking, Sales, Customer service and Stock Control teams
• Ensure relevant documents are available for customs clearance
• Co-ordinate full loads of shipments between the suppliers, the freight forwarders and the companies warehouses
• Resolve freight forwarder and wine supplier’s invoice discrepancies
• Present monthly replenishment plans, highlighting overstocks and risk of out of stock
• Forecasting
• Reports (conception, creation, presentation, maintenance)

Shipping Coordinator - The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

• Demand planning, forecasting and shipping experience
• Excellent administrative and organisational skills
• ERP system experience
• Microsoft Office skills including Advanced Excel (pivot tables and lookups)
• Fluency in French a big plus
• Experience with or interest in wine
• Good communication skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Customer service focused
• Good team player

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