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Overview
Job details
Full-time
Per the ad.
Benefits
Cycle to work scheme
Commuter benefits named in the ad.
Requirements
Work on-site in Birmingham
No relocation package mentioned.
Have 4+ years of experience
Mid-level role.
Skills
Nice to have
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
- Health Plan
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Training and Personnel Development Program
- Employee Referral Program Bonus
- Bike to work scheme
The role
We recruit, train, and retain the very best logistics and technical experts the world over. We love to promote from within - more than 50 percent of our employees have been at Expeditors for five years or more. Our high retention rate is influenced by a unique compensation program for positions that are more than just jobs - they're chances to grow, do what you love and build a career with us!
What you'll do
- Allocate workloads within team to ensure smooth operations during peak activity or staff absence
- Monitor workboards to ensure internal KPI’s are met e.g. timely data entry
- Build and maintain strong relationships with customers.
- Assist in retention calls and complete customer reviews with your regular customers to document in the CRM
- Monitor invoicing and BNP report where needed
- Proactively communicate with the team to ensure continuous awareness and understanding of policies and regulations
- Be a guide for the team - mentor agents, lead agents and ensure that positive attitude is maintained within the team
- Promote productivity tools within the team (e.g. using workboard, invoice processing, expo)
- Be continuously open and positive to implementing new system changes and enhancements with the team
- Oversee and ensure compliance with Expeditors Operational Process Standards
- Audits all new accounts and follow up on responsibilities of agents to ensure that customer needs have been met.
- Support the manager and/or the sales department where needed in matters such as making introductory contact with, coordinating and auditing new accounts; performing and supervising department accounting functions (i.e. Accts. Payable, Accts. Receivable, Customer Invoicing, domestic freight rating, etc.); and developing the annual departmental operating budget, in line with desired customer services levels and necessary equipment upgrades.
- Aid with employee development
- Apply accounting knowledge to assist department leadership
- Alongside department leadership, monitor and improve District Excellence and Global Business Operations metrics
- Assist department leadership in growing the product's business through involvement in sales and retention programs.
Skills and Qualifications
- 4 years of industry specific knowledge
- Software proficiency skills (e.g., Warehouse management systems, MS Excel Formulas and Pivot Tables, MS Word)
- Inventory management and accounting knowledge
- Self-reflecting and open to feedback
- Initiative and ability to work in autonomy
- Proven leadership attitude and background
- Effective interpersonal skills, including proven abilities to listen, comprehend, effectively communicate clearly and concisely to obtain positive results.
- Conflict resolution
- Listening skills
- Providing feedback
- Teamwork
- Building team environment
- Coaching for development
- Customer focus
- Managing meetings
- Problem solving
- Process improvement
- Time management
- English language proficiency
- Global Logistics Industry knowledge
About Expeditors
- Website
- expeditors.com
In their own words
About the company & team
We take care of our employees, and they take care of our customers!
Become a member of a global community! The international logistics industry is an integral piece of the global trade puzzle; we make the world go round. Global supply chain management is what we do, and at the heart of Expeditors you will find professionalism, leadership, and a friendly environment, all of which foster an innovative, customer service-based approach to logistics. Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. As a Fortune 500 company, we employ over 19,000 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 350+ locations across six continents. Expeditors satisfies the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems.
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