Operations Controller (BBBH13288) Horsham, England
My client has an exciting opportunity for an Operations Controller to join their team in Horsham, West Sussex. They are looking for a dynamic Operational member to serve as a strong member of the team, overseeing day to day operations, customer service and overall progression of the company.
They are seeking a relationship led individual to perform the role – who will be unafraid to roll their sleeves up and will thrive when engaging in operations and with customers.
Role: Operations Controller
Location: Horsham, West Sussex
Salary: Up to £29,000 depending on experience
Hours: Monday to Friday
Additional Information: Must be happy with being On-Call out of hours to help in the roster. Monday - Friday 17:30-08:30am & 10am-10pm at weekends (this is shared between the team and is paid)
Responsibilities:
- Assist the operations team with shared on call rota. (paid)
- Engage with existing clients over the phone, via team and face to face
- Development and maintenance of existing customer base
- Coordinate Air, Road and Sea shipments to/from the UK and Cross Trade moments from start to finish
- Support the operations team in fulfilling all customer requirements daily
- Monitor and action the department emails throughout the day and proactively react to new and live requests as they happen.
- Ensure good communication and working relationships are maintained with clients/overseas agents/suppliers.
- Maintaining fruitful relationships with existing customers and ensure they stay satisfied.
- Identify further opportunities with existing customers and looking after key accounts
- Accurately complete job files & book jobs onto the internal system.
- Maintain accurate, real-time updates
- Maintain strong commercial judgement
- Prepare and present quotations for projects, ad-hoc and regular movements.
- Accurate data entry into Excel & internal systems
- Plan and organise own workload and work well independently and within a team
- Be professional, self-motivated, and conscientious with good initiative and good attention to detail
- Have a strong desire to work hard and always exceed customer expectations
Skills/Experience Required:
- Experience in Operations
- Key competencies: accuracy, attention to details, helpfulness and politeness, dutifulness, multi – tasking, patience, stress tolerance, ability to meet deadlines.
- Very good verbal and written knowledge of English is a must
- Prioritizing, time management and organizational skills
- Ability to work with IT systems
- Friendly and engaging personality
- Graduate (desirable)
- Polite, flexibility, honesty, communication skills, strong work ethic, ‘extra mile’ mentality determination and persistence, ability to work in harmony with co-workers, technical competency
- Strong organisational skills
- Approachable
- Excellent time management
Benefits:
- Phone/Laptop provided
- Onsite parking
- Gym onsite
- Shower onsite
- Pool table & Kitchen Facilities onsite
If you are interested in applying for this position and you meet the requirements, please send your updated CV to: Hollie Binstead at Line Up Aviation
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