Customs Coordinator Freight Forwarding
5 days ago
Bradford
Customs Coordinator – Freight Forwarding Location: Bradford, UK Job Type: Permanent / Monday – Friday Salary: £28,000 - £34,000 Join a leading freight forwarder in Bradford as a Customs Coordinator, where you’ll play a key role in ensuring smooth and compliant international shipments. This is a fantastic opportunity for a detail-oriented logistics professional with experience in CDS, imports, or exports to take ownership of customs processes, support key clients, and keep global trade moving efficiently. RESPONSIBILITIES • Understand the processes, documentation, and terminology involved in international shipping from time of purchase order issuance through the delivery of the cargo, • Identify and resolve issues that could potentially result in delayed cargo release or final delivery, • Demonstrate strong decision-making skills and ability to prioritize tasks between daily responsibilities, • Demonstrate proactive, professional, clarity, and reliability to our peers and our customers through verbal and written language, • Promote a positive working relationship for all team member, • Analyse and validate import documentation and data to ensure they are in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations prior to entry submission, • Receive and review documentation to input and transmit data, • Ensure regulatory requirements are met, and proper documentation exists for all shipments, • Manage customer invoicing, process vendor payables, and assist with receivables of assigned accounts REQUIREMENTS • Experience with CDS, • Experience in imports &/or exports, • Excellent communication, prioritization, and multi-tasking skills, • Excellent customer service skills and follow up to be utilized with customers and the network, • Proven track record of dealing with customers and being client focused, • Critical-thinking, flexibility, and problem-solving skills to adapt to ever-changing tasks and customer needs, • Reputation for logical, methodical, and expedient approach to problem resolution, • High level of attention to detail, • Values a diverse and inclusive work environment