Import / Export Coordinator

Posted 12 Days Ago
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United Kingdom
Entry level
Industrial • Manufacturing
The Role
The Import/Export Coordinator manages the import and export process, ensuring compliance with customs requirements. Responsibilities include handling import seal checks, customs declarations, full reconciliation processes, and meeting customer service targets. This role also involves audits and managing logistics associated with health and safety agendas.
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Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact


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The role will report into the warehouse manager and the role holder will be responsible for the overall management of the pladis import and export process in line with both pladis and HMRC customs requirements

Key accountabilities & deliverables:

  • Import seal checks
  • Driver chaperone
  • Customs declaration/ clearance paperwork checks prior to off loading
  • 5-point container checks prior to off loading
  • Full reconciliation process
  • The management of the imported stock schedule to ensure all relevant paperwork is in place for offloading and the full reconciliation of goods prior to receipt
  • Highlighting and investigating any discrepancies via the inventory team for reconciliation
  • Driving pladis health, safety and quality agenda
  • Ensuring customer service targets are hit

  • Delivering key KPI’s

  • Audit ready for all governing bodies – BRC, HMRC, ISO

  • Management of the heat-treated pallet process and schedule in line with pladis and customs processes including:
    -Loading schedules
    -Pallet management
    -Customs declaration
    -Plants abroad processes and paperwork
    -Load reconciliation and investigation
    -Single point of contact for HMRC customs queries

Skills and Experience Required:

Essential Criteria

  • Fork truck licence

  • Microsoft office suite

Desirable criteria

  • SAP experience

  • Export / import experience

Personal Attributes required:

  • Attention to detail
  • Good communicator
  • Team player
  • Adherence to process
  • Quality focussed
  • Leadership skills


pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business.
We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.

The Company
Istanbul, Istanbul
3,038 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

pladis is one of the world’s fastest growing snacking companies and home to much loved brands including McVitie’s, GODIVA and Ülker. pladis also owns regional brands Jacob’s, Go Ahead, Flipz, Turtles, BN, Verkade and many more products across sweet and savoury biscuits, wafer, cake, and chocolate.

pladis also owns regional brands such as Jacob’s, Go Ahead, Flipz, BN, Verkade and many more, delighting consumers with products across the snacking category including sweet and savoury biscuits, wafer, cake, chocolate, gum and candy.

Formed in 2016, pladis is the proud steward of over 300 years of family baking and confectionery experience. The expertise of its 16,000-strong global workforce spans 25 factories in 11 countries, and is founded on collaboration, agility and resilience.

As a responsible business, delivering the highest quality products and exceptional service, pladis’ products have the potential to reach more than four billion people across the world.

pladis people are passionate about collaboration and creation, using consumer insights and trends to fulfil its promise of bringing happiness with every bite. This passion, combined with rapid speed to market, enables the company to bring its products from idea to on-shelf quickly, so they are available for consumers all over the world.

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