About the Company

Headquartered out of Sydney, Australia with offices in New Zealand, South Africa, UK, and Ireland, for 20 years now, SmartFreight® has provided market leading Transport Management Software Systems (TMS) to some of the world’s leading organisations. SmartFreight® presently processes over £325 million p.a. of freight spend across its 16,000+ software users and processes in excess of 72 million individual items of freight each year. With SmartFreight®’s extensive suite of shipping software (SmartFreight®) products, alliance partners, and access to hundreds of transport providers, SmartFreight® is able to deliver efficiencies and savings to its clients that are the envy of our industry. 

Your new role will see you join our UK based team of committed professionals and will fully utilise your diverse set of both technical and administration skills – all at the same time.  A truly unique role that requires a unique person with exceptional time management skills.

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Liaise with customers and carriers to deliver our SmartFreight® solution.
• Organise tasks for technical team.
• Managing delivery and stock control of SmartFreight® consumables.
• Through applying your acute attention to detail, undertake various diverse administration duties as directed.
• Have a passion to deliver the ultimate customer service experience.

To be successful in this role you will need to demonstrate the following skills:

• You will be an authorised UK citizen or resident.

• Have a desire to undertake a role consisting of many moving parts that will stretch your learning abilities.
• Be able to display excellent verbal and written English skills.
• Be an excellent communicator with other members of the SmartFreight® Europe team.
• Be prepared to enter into an intensive and ongoing training program upon commencement of the role.
• Be prepared to work harmoniously with a diverse group of highly motivated colleagues.
• Be able to take ownership of the day to day running of internal administration processes of the Stockport offices.
• Work closely with sales personnel in delivering best-of-class SmartFreight TMS solutions to new and existing customers.
• Technical Experience desired include but not isolated to:
  • High level of organizational skills and attention to detail is paramount.
  • Be able to communicate in a professional manner with customers and carriers with a high level of verbal and written English skills.
  • Basic Excel, Word and Outlook skills.
  • Ability to learn new software platforms.
  • Ability to prioritise tasks in order of urgency.

Nice to have skills or experience would include:

• A background in transport or logistics.
• A background in warehousing or outward goods dispatch processes.
• Experience with basic stock control.

This position is a full time role with an immediate start. A competitive remuneration package will be the reward for the successful applicant.

Interested?

If so, please email your CV and accompanying cover letter to kerry.holmes@smartfreight.com

*Please note only successful applicants will be contacted directly.

Posted on: 27/02/2017