Customs Declaration Clerk - Join their team if you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding career! This leading company are looking for a Customs Declaration Clerk to join us in Ipswich/ Dover/ London Gateway.
Fantastic benefits include:
- Competitive Salary: £25,000 - £27,500 per annum (depending on experience).
- Company pension scheme
- Free on-site parking
- Benefits: - Company pension, travel discounts, Employee Assistance Scheme and an employee wellbeing programme along with opportunities for personal and professional training and development. They also offer a benefits platform including a range of voluntary health insurances, cycle to work, and retail discounts.
- Hours: This is a full-time role working Monday to Friday with a rotating Saturday shift (currently one week in three or four, after working a Saturday you will have a day off in following week). Shifts are 0700hrs to 1500hrs and 0900hrs to 1700hrs, currently one week in three or four with an early start.
Your role:
As the Customs Declaration Clerk you will assist the Customs Declaration Manager in achieving team objectives and delivering service excellence to their clients. You will be part of a highly dedicated team of Customs professionals, which is responsible for delivering the highest quality of service to an internationally dedicated client base. You will be responsible for ensuring customs declarations are processed in a timely manner and ensuring any queries are dealt with as soon as possible.
Other key responsibilities:
- Recording and reviewing customs declaration requests from clients
- Updating systems with all relevant customs declaration information in an effective and efficient way
- Recording details of duties paid by P&O Ferrymasters and ensuring recovery from clients
- Liaising with clients to ensure their customs declaration needs are met
- Ensuring sufficient information is received and shared with the carriers to maintain a smooth delivery service to final destination and avoids delays
About you:
As the successful Customs Declaration Clerk, you will have knowledge of CDS (Home use entries, IP, Simplified Frontier Declarations), Destin8 and CNS (Compass), as well as an understanding of Microsoft software. You will have excellent organisational skills, including ability to prioritise and manage own workload. You will also show attention to detail and accuracy, with the ability to deal with large amounts of information and quickly adjust with decisiveness and integrity. You will have excellent communication and influencing skills (both verbal and written). The ability to speak another European language would also be an advantage.
Do you have what they're looking for? And does this Customs Declaration Assistant role sound like the perfect opportunity for you? We hope so – in which case, now’s the time to let them know! Please apply with your CV and covering letter as soon as possible. We look forward to hearing from you!
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Additional keywords: customs, declaration, logistics, shipping, import, export, customer service
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