Warehouse and Logistics Co-ordinator - 12 Month FTC

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.

Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

​Supply​

Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen.

If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships.

Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

About the role

The main aim of the role is to support the Logistics Solution Manager in ensuring external suppliers providing a Transport or Customs service for Reckitt provide the best possible service.

You will be working with freight forwarders and hauliers to ensure shipments are booked in the most efficient way possible with the overall aim of avoiding penalties. This part of the role requires attention to detail and constant management of booking scheduling. A further element to the transport side will be working with our 3rd Part Logistics provider to coordinate port collections, again ensuring no additional penalties are incurred.

Further to dealing with transport providers the role we will require the person to work with customs brokers to ensure every shipment is cleared prior to its allotted booking slot.

Your responsibilities

• E2E customs paperwork process management – ensure customs paperwork from factory to end destination is passed smoothly between stakeholders
• Action Custom Broker or Freight Forwarder requests for missing paperwork
• Process improvement - solution the process where breakdowns of paperwork flow occur
• Run weekly reports to check the statues of shipments and act accordingly based on the status
• Work closely with our customs brokers to maintain the consistent flow of goods, whilst constantly reviewing process in effort to streamline
• Working with our 3rd party logistics provider to coordinate port collections and the return of containers
• Use port systems to book the collection and return of containers to port.
• Monitor external partners KPI’s
• Demurrage and Detention Management - ensure shipments are booked in efficiently to avoid additional penalties by using a mixture of Freight Forwarder reports, system data and emailing external suppliers

The experience we're looking for

• Intermediate Excel skills
• Strong relationship builder and external parenting
• Attention to detail
• Strong Time management skills
• Strong priority management skills
• Previous Logistics role experience desirable

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Relationship Management, Business Accumen, Advanced Analytics, Data Analytics, Improve business processes, Advanced Analytics, Data Analytics, Distribution Logistics, Logistics Management, Management Third-party Logistics Providers, Supply Chain Planning, Supply Management, Procurement.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.

We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.