United Beet Seeds

We are looking for a Shipping Assistant to our site in Holeby

Job Mission

The Shipping Assistant is the main point of contact for the sales department, customer service, internal logistics, laboratory, warehouse, various transport agents, sales agents, customs office, chamber of commerce, custom authorities, agricultural authorities, embassies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Shipping Assistant is in charge of executing end to end shipments and providing export documents.

Result Areas

  • Executon and follow up of courier shipments (Fedex, UPS, DHL), e.g. marketing materials, documents, samples
  • Execution and follow up basic seed shipments, DEMO seed and OVT seed – including export documents, if the shipment is outside EU
  • Execution and follow up of commercial fodder beet seed and sugar beet seed shipments – including export documents, if the shipment is outside EU
  • Execution and follow up of the import of raw seed, sugar beet seed/fodder beet seed (from IT, FR, AT)
  • Issuing export documents (inside EU): Packing list / loading spec; GMO, delivery note, CMR
  • Issuing export documents (outside EU): Invoice, CoO, EUR1 certificate, phytosanitary cert; ISTA, import permit, inssurance cert; weight list, packing list, seed desifection cert; analysig cert; GMO, ISTA, OECD, quality cert; delievry note, loading spec; CMR/AWB/SWB
  • Management of approvals for export documents before dispatching the seeds (in coordination with customer service/sales)
  • Uploading and forward final export documents towards customer service and sales
  • Arranging transports, flight – sea – road - courier (import and export)
  • Online bookings for courier shipments and road shipments
  • Negotiation of freight prices – import and export
  • Posting of invoices in NAV (transport agents, chamber of commerce, Agricultural Authorities
  • Management of documentation related to external audit
  • Uploading all documents in Cargo X system (Egyptian import system, related to sea freight shipments)

Scope & Accountabilities

The Shipping Assistant executes all the import and export shipments defined into the Danish scope

The Shipping Assistant is accountable for:

  • All the logistics planning, follow up and communication
  • Updating the parties involved in delivery/arrival times
  • Propose alternative solutions in case delivery/arrival dates are not met
  • Find different options when faced with transport availabilities
  • Escalate severe issues to the corresponding parties

Skills & Expertise

  • Experience of managing end–to-end logistics flows: road, air, sea, intermodal
  • Experience in managing end-to-end export and import documentation
  • Experience with logistics planning systems such as SAP, NAVISION
  • Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-moving environment
  • Demonstrating Integrity, honesty, morality and, trustworthiness
  • Strong commercial awareness
  • Fluent in Danish and English

Company Values: Humility, Innovation, Agility, Resilience

What we can offer:

An exciting and varied job with great opportunity for personal as well as professional development in an international company. The working environment is characterized by an informal tone, openness and mutual trust.

The post is ideally filled as soon as possible. We conduct interviews continuously and hire as soon as we have the right candidate. Therefore, please do not hesitate to send us your application.

If you have any questions about the job, you can contact Angie on mail maria.chimalpopoca@sesvanderhave.com or phone +32 478 79 97 67.

The job is situated at our site in Holeby, Denmark.

Please send your application to HRBeetSeed@unitedbeetseeds.com