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
