Import Road and Seafreight Clerk

Freightserve recruitment are looking for an experienced Import Road and Seafreight person for a small busy Freight Forwarder based in the Heathrow area.

Key responsibilities:

• To ensure compliance with the customs regulations of the UK, through internal notifications and customs web site
• To transpose customs declaration information from documents, and or other data sources into the customs brokerage system accurately
• To manage and meet required internal and external KPIs specific to the customer base
• To build and maintain strong relationships with the customer base
• To be responsible for arranging and completing all associated paperwork, which documents the nature of the goods being imported from abroad and that they are legal and legitimate
• Ensuring all is in order in relation to import quotas, customs tariffs, trade agreements and HM Revenue and customs regulations
• To keep up to date on all regulatory requirements governing imports.
• Being commercially aware of job costings and profitability, ensuring maximum profitability for the organisation
• Ability to manage deadlines and sometimes difficult situations.
• Accountable for printing and active allocation of all pre-alerts to ensure files are not missed and handed out promptly to the individuals within the department, on a daily basis
• To ensure that all deliveries are arranged prior to vessel arrival at port, the same to be booked with hauliers.
• To ensure that customs formalities are completed
• To ensure that if declaring any values on deferment account for duty/vat these should be billed onto the customer same day as declaration

Monday - Friday 9am - 5.30pm

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