The role:
- Manage the company’s shipping, despatch and trade-compliance activities.
- Lead, motivate and develop the despatch team, ensuring that departmental responsibilities are clearly understood and effectively completed.
- Ensure products are packed, documented and shipped accurately, securely and on time.
- Coordinate domestic and international shipments through approved couriers, freight forwarders and logistics providers.
- Ensure all commercial invoices, packing lists, certificates, customs declarations and supporting shipping documents are complete and accurate.
- Maintain compliance with applicable UK export controls, sanctions, customs requirements and company ITC procedures.
- Review shipments for potential export-control, sanctions, end-use, end-user and destination concerns, escalating matters where appropriate.
- Support the correct use of commodity codes, customs values, country-of-origin information, Incoterms and other relevant trade data.
- Determine when export licences, authorisations or further compliance reviews may be required and ensure shipments are not released without the necessary approvals.
- Maintain accurate, complete and readily retrievable shipping and trade-compliance records.
- Liaise with customers, freight forwarders, customs agents, couriers and internal departments to resolve documentation and delivery issues.
- Monitor delivery performance and investigate late, damaged, rejected or otherwise non-compliant shipments.
- Maintain accurate despatch, inventory and transaction records within company systems.
- Support stock-control activities and improvements in inventory accuracy.
- Produce and analyse departmental KPIs, reporting on delivery performance, compliance and improvement actions.
- Identify and implement continuous-improvement opportunities across shipping, despatch and logistics processes.
- Support internal and external audits relating to shipping, customs and trade compliance.
- Ensure departmental adherence to company quality, Health, Safety and Environmental requirements.
Requirements:
- Proven experience in international shipping, logistics, despatch or trade compliance.
- Practical experience of International Trade Compliance, including export-control procedures, customs documentation and international shipping requirements.
- A sound working knowledge of import and export regulations.
- Experience preparing, reviewing or approving documentation for international shipments.
- Understanding of customs declarations, commodity classifications, origin, valuation and Incoterms.
- Experience working with freight forwarders, customs agents, couriers and logistics providers.
- Previous experience leading or managing a despatch, shipping, logistics or warehouse team.
- Experience using ERP, MRP, inventory or warehouse-management systems.
- Strong organisational and planning skills, with excellent attention to detail.
- The ability to prioritise workloads and manage several deadlines simultaneously.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
- Clear and professional communication skills when dealing with customers, suppliers, logistics providers and colleagues.
- A proactive and accountable approach to compliance and operational performance.
- Commitment to quality and Health, Safety and Environmental compliance.
- Upon successful interview, Preci-Spark’s application process requires a basic criminal-record check to be completed.