It's more than a job
When you work in Freight Logistics and Operations at Kuehne+Nagel, you play a key role in optimising processes and ensuring that inventory and shipments move efficiently. But that is not all. Your work also helps ensure that vital medicines reach patients on time and supports other essential deliveries, from wind turbines to semiconductors. At Kuehne+Nagel, our contribution counts in more ways than we imagine.
Reporting to the Import Operational Care Supervisor and based within a team of seven import specialists, this role is responsible for executing import sea bookings, alongside the required documentation for a wide range of clients. Working in close collaboration with your peers within the Customer Care Team, your responsibility is to ensure operational requirements are met to help deliver overall customer excellence.
How you create impact
- Generate required documentation for import sea shipments
- Arrange bookings directly with transport companies, and liaise with carriers and suppliers
- Liaise with the Customer Care Team and other internal departments to ensure customer requirements are met
- Ensure the relevant governance & regulatory requirements are adhered to
- Vendor cost vs revenue accuracy and investigation responsibilities
What we would like you to bring
- Previous experience within a logistics environment, preferably international forwarding is preferred however not essential
- Impeccable interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate positively and constructively with multiple stakeholders
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to cope with pressure, hard work and fulfil deadlines
- Good attitude, team spirit and ability to collaborate with people across the business
What's in it for you
- Conditions: performance-related remuneration
- Flexibility: flexible working hours for a good work-life balance
- Health promotion: sports and wellness offers, supplementary company health insurance, advisory services on e.g. work-life balance, location-specific promotions
- Capital-forming benefits: Support for asset accumulation in the areas of retirement provision, bank savings plans and investment funds
- Equipment & working environment
- Perspective: Training courses for professional and personal development, such as language courses and development programs
- Teamwork: familiar working atmosphere in a large company, various team and company events, advertising program for new employees incl. bonus
Who we are
Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.
As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.
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