Logistics Coordinator FMCG
"Experienced Logistics Coordinator sought by a leading manufacturer of specialist paperboard packaging products within the Food Packaging Sector to work alongside the Supply Chain Department and be part of the Company's innovative strategy and growth plans."
£25-30000 (Dependent on Experience) Benefits
Location: Rotherham, Yorkshire.
Our client is an innovative market leader. They provide packaging solutions for food & consumer goods and develop creative and flexible packaging solutions that help customers add value to their offering and achieve success through packaging. A leader in the European market, with a growing footprint that includes Asia and Africa, they use their advanced technical expertise and state-of-the-art printing & finishing capabilities to create a broad product portfolio with innovative and tailored flexible packaging system solutions.
This is a fantastic career development opportunity for a confident, enthusiastic, and ambitious Logistics specialist, looking to build a career in Supply Chain. The role of Logistics Coordinator has been created to work with the company's Supply Chain Department to provide the necessary experience to be part of an exciting phase of the company's strategy and growth plans. This is a standalone role, reporting to the Supply Chain Improvements Manager.
The Role:
* Report directly to the Supply Chain Manager
* Coordinate incoming material deliveries and finished goods deliveries. Both UK and Export/Import
* Organise Stock Transfer vehicles to and from internal and external warehouse facilities
* Review, update and manage the Incoming and Outgoing Goods calendar including colour coding
* Use Sage 200 and Excel on a daily basis.
* Liaise with customers, hauliers, Suppliers and Customs Clearing Agents
* Ensure sales are up to date and informed throughout
* Ensure that our customers are receiving excellent customer service aligned to our company vision and standards
* Generate and prepare Shipping Documentation (Commercial invoices, Picking Lists, CMR's & Purchase Orders)
* Create dispatch bags for the Warehouse (Commercial Invoices, CMR, Picking Lists and Haulier information)
* Obtain quotations from Hauliers, ensuring value for money where possible
* Be mindful of Company Environmental and Sustainability policies
* Liaise with drivers, dealing with dispatch and routing issues
* Log Shipping Data on a daily basis
* Assist with Reverse Logistics
* Track and Achieve On Time in Full
* Analyse Haulier KPI's to ensure they are achieving the agreed Lead Times
* Attend a Daily Direction Meeting to report deliveries on and off track daily and weekly
* Support the Supply Chain team with Stock Take
* Support the Supply Chain Manager with Logistics Tenders, getting involved where possible
* Cover the Planning and Supply Chain Coordinator during holidays
The Ideal Candidate:
The successful candidate must have the following essential requirements: -
* Educated to minimum A levels/University Degree.
* Experience in Logistics required
* Knowledge around the recent Brexit Regulations
* Excellent Customer Service
* A high level of numeracy and keen attention to detail
* A logical and analytical approach
* Strong interpersonal skills
* Proficient in Microsoft packages - especially Excel and the use of basic formulas and routines
* Capable of managing own workload and confident in liaising at all levels within the business
* Strong planning, organisational and prioritisation skills
* Forward Thinker
* An enthusiastic and approachable manner with a proactive, "can do" attitude.
* A knowledge of the food manufacturing / packaging industry and procurement activities guided by the requirements of BRC (or ISO9001) quality management systems would be advantageous but not essential
* This is an office based role and would ideally suit a car owner as public transport is limited close to the site
In return our client offers a salary of £25-26,000 (dependent on experience), holiday entitlement, and the chance to join a growing, ambitious, and innovative business.
To apply without delay, please email your CV quoting reference LX 932173
Business Development Manager - 3PL Logistics & Warehousing
"New role within long established 3PL, entering a period of growth and expansion in its specialised and unique palletised freight national network, and warehousing operation."
£Very Competitive DOE Bonus/Commission Executive Car Benefits
National Field Based Role - Company HQ in South West. Proximity to M5/M6, M1, M40, M3, M4 ideal
Are you a dynamic and ambitious sales professional looking to make your mark in a fast-growing logistics and warehousing business? Our client is a family-owned 3PL company based in the South West has several profitable and expanding elements including a specialised Pallet Network, Full-Service Warehousing across a number of locations and a new e-fulfilment unit.
The Pallet Network business has a proven track record in next day to any UK address delivering out-of-gauge, damage-sensitive pallet freight, kerbside to domestic and commercial addresses. The Warehousing is currently expanding and the business will be investing in new capacity to support projected demand.
With a growing portfolio of customers in the fast-growing renewables / solar / energy storage sector, plus building products, rail, automotive, and e-commerce sectors, as a result of retirement, they are now seeking a talented and motivated Business Development Manager to join their team to lead the next phase of growth and expansion.
About the Role
Reporting to the recently appointed Managing Director, as the Business Development Manager, you will be pivotal in driving the business forward. You will be part of the Leadership Team as the business targets significant growth of the back of a firm financial and operational position. With a focus on new business development and account management, you will be responsible for expanding the customer base and maintaining strong relationships with existing clients. Using your expertise in sales and networking, you will engage in direct sales activities and generate leads in their current sectors and new markets. Our client is seeking an individual with both strong strategic capabilities, a tactical winning sales focus. A working knowledge of implementing successful marketing campaigns would be a big bonus. As part of the strategy for national salesm new business development and account management, you will act as "player coach", initially as an individual contributor who, as the business expands builds and manages a team of sales and business development executives as part of our client's ambitious growth plans.
Our client has built their reputation on providing tailored solutions. So, in this role, you and your future team can flex your commercial muscles to develop and sell new offerings, particularly in specialist pallet freight, storage, e-fulfilment, and reverse/return logistics. With depots strategically located in the South West, West Midlands, East Anglia, and Yorkshire, and partners in Scotland, Ireland, South East, this national role would suit someone located centrally but with close proximity to major motorway networks ensuring easy access to customers throughout the UK.
Key Responsibilities
Requirements:
If you are a results-oriented professional looking to join a dynamic and forward-thinking company, we want to hear from you. Email your CV, quoting reference LX 1729738 or call us on 01905 381 320.
CONTRACT LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS DESIGN DIRECTOR - JAPAN
"Experience of logistics solutions design for the Japanese market and building regulatory environment. Fluency in Japanese highly advantageous"
JPY Excellent Bonus Benefits & Relocation Assistance
Japan - Full Relocation Assistance Available
Our client is a global multinational. A true market leader, they have a strong culture of safety, customer focus, quality and reliability.
Highly successful and long-established with industrial expertise across a number of verticals, our client has a global network of operations and integrated state-of-the-art information technology across warehousing and transport.
As result of dynamic growth our client is seeking a very innovative, degree educated, Director of Solutions Design from the global 3PL/contract logistics sector. You will lead a solutions design team across transport, warehousing and value-added solutions working with clients across the Japanese cluster. Experience of robotic process automation warehousing solutions design would be advantageous.
You will support the Country Leadership Team to develop and deploy commercial strategies. You lead, coach, and develop the Japanese solutions design team. You will also programme manage solutions design projects and resources.
We are seeking individuals with experience of various types of transport, warehousing and storage including robotic process automation, automatic storage and retrieval systems. Experience of transport and warehousing/distribution centre design solutions for the Japanese market and building structure regulatory environment will be critical to success. Fluency in Japanese would be highly advantageous but not essential.
The Role:
* Managing a team of Warehousing/Transport & Valued Added Logistics Solutions Design Managers and Analysts, you will support the country Business Development and Implementation teams in developing innovative, cost effective and profitable warehousing and supply chain solutions for new and existing multinational and regional clients.
* Through strategic consulting assignments, you will work at operational strategic and Board level to identify business issues focused on process improvement and cost effectiveness; propose value adding and innovative solutions and subsequently manage the delivery of projects.
* This will entail analysis of existing inhouse and customer operations and the subsequent design of proposals, managing resource and cross functional teams during implementation, planning and solutions delivery. In addition, you will develop the supply chain solutions design strategy and manage the departmental budget.
* As Director of Logistics Solutions Design your role will be broad - leading solutions design projects as a Subject Matter Expert across transport, robotic process automation specialist, material handling, automated warehousing design, supply chain and logistics systems, strategy, commercial, key account management, management accountant, facilitator, leader, mentor, coach and project manager.
* You will possess extensive expertise in transport and warehousing solutions design, planning, projects, consultancy, value chain engineering and productivity improvement. You will be highly proficient in liaising, presenting and working at Board level both internally and externally with key strategic multinational client accounts.
* You will direct and manage your team in multiple implementation and re-engineering projects enabling cost and service improvements whilst at the same time managing teams involved in new operational start-ups.
The Ideal Applicant:
* The ideal applicant will be educated to degree/Masters degree level in Engineering, Business or similar and will possess a substantial and demonstrative track record of successful project delivery gained within a global multinational third party contract logistics solutions design/projects environment.
* We are inviting applications from either highly accomplished and experienced professionals seeking to consolidate and apply their solutions design leadership and coaching experience in a new and challenging growth environment or alternatively someone with at least 8-10 years fast track operational and strategic solutions design experience who wishes to step into country logistics solutions design leadership role heading up and developing an accomplished team of solutions design specialists.
* Experience of transport and warehousing solutions design, supply chain optimisation, automated robotic process and warehouse design tools as well as formal project management capabilities will be a prerequisite. Experience of managing multi-disciplined teams is essential.
* It is imperative that you will be possess a portfolio of successful projects completed across, for example, retail and FMCG, industrial, technology or pharmaceutical verticals.
* Third Party Solutions design experience as a Senior Manager, General Manager, Head of, Senior Consultant/Partner or Project Director may have been supplemented with experience in one of the following environments: inhouse global multinational logistics fulfilment facilities design team; materials handling solutions design provider; or automation solutions/automated robotic process design consultancy.
* Most importantly you will also have a demonstrable track record of success in coaching and developing a team of Solutions Design Analysts and Managers, ensuring a consistent, best in class approach.
* Previous international/multi country solutions design and solutions design and implementation project team leadership would be extremely advantageous, as would, cultural experience and understanding of living and working in Japan would be highly advantageous.
To apply without delay, please email your CV, quoting reference LX 1152315,
Business Development Research Associate
East Midlands
£30-36000 + Bonus (Uncapped)
Are you a dynamic individual with a passion for business development and a keen interest in finance? Our client, a leading name in commercial asset finance brokerage and lending, is looking for an ambitious Business Development Research Associate to enhance the success of the vendor business development and account management team to achieve growth targets. This is your chance to become part of an innovative company that values hard work, talent, and the drive to succeed.
The Company:
Our client has established a stellar reputation in the finance industry. They provide tailor-made finance solutions to businesses across various sectors. They pride themselves on exceptional customer service, expertise, and the ability to help companies achieve their goals.
The Role:
As Business Development Research Associate, your role is at the heart of the Vendor Business Development team. You will:
You Are:
What You'll Need:
Why Join Our Client?
Ready to take the next step in your career with a company as ambitious as you are? Apply now by sending your CV quoting reference LX 1799984