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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We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document. If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs. Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.

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