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Logistics Administrator – Transport

ogistics Administrator – Transport

Are you looking for an exciting & challenging career in Transport and Logistics?

Then this could be the perfect role for you!

The Role:

Our client is looking to recruit a Logistics Administrator within the Transport department to join their team based in Portsmouth. This is a family run business and the company is seeking someone with experience in Transport / Logistics to join the busy Transport office.

In this role the successful candidate will deal with queries and issues by email and telephone, quickly and thoroughly, provide an efficient, responsive and professional service when handling all incoming and outgoing calls with customers, depots and drivers, book jobs onto their system plus coordinate deliveries and collections using the routing system and directly with drivers.

Full training will be given too the successful candidate where needed.

Essential Criteria:

  • Can do & enthusiastic attitude.
  • Transport/ Logistics skills is desirable.
  • Able to work in a fast-paced environment, to prioritise tasks and be organised.
  • Good IT Skills
  • Analytical / Attention to detail
  • Good customer service skills
  • Own means of transport

About the company

Our client is a well-established, Transport company who has a good reputation within the industry and prides itself on looking after its employees and providing a good working environment.

Salary & Benefits:

The salary for this role would be £27k – £28k – DOE.

The standard hours of work are 10am- 6.30pm Monday to Friday– need to be flexible and will need to cover other staff when they are on holiday (1 hour lunch given)

Other shifts that would need to be covered to cover holidays would be 6am – 14.30pm and 8am to 16.30pm.

There would be also a Saturday rota to check on deliveries from home, 1 in 4 (normally a few hours).

20 Days Holiday, loyalty programme which includes bonus scheme, free parking on site plus pension scheme.