Logistics & Carrier Manager - #143630

An exciting opportunity for a client and supplier facing professional with strong negotiation skills and deep understanding of international logistics to join a leading global 3PL.

The successful candidate with have a high level of autonomy, taking full ownership of managing the logistics team, liaising and advising clients on shipping solutions, managing carrier relationships and deliver end-to-end inbound, outbound and reverse logistic solutions across a multi-brand, multi-channel business.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible in building strong commercial relationships with both domestic and global carriers/suppliers
• Proactive and pivotal role in annual contract negotiations
• Provide support to our network of global fulfilment centres, ensuring transportation capacity needs are secured based on proactive planning and forecasting consignment volumes across the year
• Identifying and overseeing the onboarding of new carriers into the network
• Establish reporting across the entire carrier base, as well as clear communication of performance and building on KPIs and SLAs
• Responsible for all client communications, in particular timely notification of changes in carrier rates, carrier solutions and compliance changes
• Analyse patterns and trends in data to better understand key lanes and optimise client’s carrier solutions
• Manage the supply, quality, and deliveries are in line with SLA with each carrier and challenge where appropriate
• Point of escalation and seen as an "expert" in the business to address carrier issues across different stakeholder groups
• Direct line management of a small team of logistic specialists, including coaching, mentoring and managing appraisal processes
• Develop knowledge across internal and external stakeholders with regards to international customs requirements and procedures, dangerous goods requirements, etc

Skills and Experience Required:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience (having attained manager level) dealing with or working within a logistics function, supply chain function or carrier business
• Highly organised with the ability to prioritise own workload
• Strong base knowledge of incoterms and how to ship goods internationally from a duty paid and unpaid basis.
• Ideally dangerous goods trained (IATA and/or ADR) and demonstrable experience of shipping restrictions/compliance requirements
• Excellent IT skills including MS Office 365 and Databases
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• A problem solver with the ability to self-manage
• Strong commercial acumen with demonstrable experience of negotiating contracts and an understanding of margins

Benefits:

• 23 days holiday + Bank Holidays (increasing with length of service)
• Westfield Health Cash Plan (after probationary period) 
• Birthday off 
• Free onsite parking 
• Partner Discounts 
• Company events