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Junior Broker & Administrator

Junior Broker & Administrator

DivalentineCalver Recruitment Ltd

Posted 9 hours ago, valid for 12 days

Slough, Berkshire SL13XX, England

Full Time

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Sonic Summary

Our client, a well-established Heathrow freight forwarding agent, is seeking a Junior Broker & Administrator for their Slough Contract Logistics Centre.
The role requires good communication and customer service skills, IT proficiency in Word and Excel, and a clear DBS check, along with a steady employment or education record over the past five years.
The position is full-time, offering a salary between £24,000 and £28,000 depending on experience, with some weekend work on a rotating schedule after the probation period.
Responsibilities include booking cross-border orders, operational tasks to ensure timely shipments, data entry in Excel, and preparing customs entries.
Candidates should possess effective communication skills, the ability to multi-task, and ideally some experience in the logistics sector, although training will be provided.

Our client are a well established Heathrow freight forwarding agent who have an exciting new role available based out of their Slough Contract Logistics Centre for a Junior Broker & Administrator. The successful candidate will have good comms/customer service ability, IT skills (Word/Excel) and excellent verbal/written English together with a 5 year steady employment/education record/clear DBS check.

Reporting to and partnering with Cross Border Manager and the team, you will support an international department to ensure robust customer services is achieved in line with the strategic direction of the department

Employment Terms:

Position TitleJunior Broker & Administrator

Reports to Cross Border Manager
Location: Slough
Full Time / Part Time: Full Time (post probation weekends 1/3 on a rota and some hybrid working)
Contract Type: Permanent
Department: Contract Logistics
Salary: £24-28k DOE & Neg
Hours: 09h00am-5.00pm with some weekend work on rotation

RESPONSIBILITIES

Booking in/booking out of cross border orders
Operational work to ensure that shipments are moved as planned
Working with the team to get shipments moving
Entering and sorting data in Excel ensuring that KPI’s are visible
Preparing for customs entries
Bulk Upload of documents and/or entries
Submitting export customs entries to customs using customs system
Creation of T1’s
Liaising and communicating with external and internal customers
Invoicing administration
Ensure all information is entered into the system and communicated to relevant personnel

Experience/ Technical Abilities:

Experience working with or in the logistics sector, desirable but not essential
Excel knowledge, advance desirable but not essential as training will be provided
Excellent communication in English (verbal and written)

Personal Attributes:

Effective communicator
Accurate, independent and focused
Achiever
Problem solver
Must be able to multi task
Ability to work in a challenging and dynamic environment as a team player
Confident

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