Imports Coordinator (On site - Midtown Jalisco, GDL)
Guadalajara, Midtown Jalisco, Jalisco, Mexico
Responsible for servicing external and internal customer needs and proactively participating in the operation process.
Key Activities and general responsibilities
- Receive and process orders/purchase write up
- Follow up with internal or external customers to clarify orders/purchase write up if needed
- Communicate orders internally according to the established process
- Assure ownership of operational costs
- Validate Quality Assurance approval of vendor/item and certification link
Logistics (Outbound)
- Responsible for tracking and order distribution
- Facilitate product releases and pick-ups with 3rd party warehouses as needed
- Arrange domestic truck freight with our carrier partners
- Prepare appropriate documentation for customers
- Verify and track orders and shipments
- Ensure that all processes and procedures are completed following established guidelines
- Manage relationships with the warehouses
- In the case of an inventory discrepancy, logistics team leaders confer with team members and across departments to determine the source of the issue and resolve it
- Perform additional duties as assigned
- Support Account Managers / Traders with specific accounts
- Hold an understanding of products/commodities to be able to answer most customer/traders’ inquiries
- Communicate issues/challenges to the Trade team
- Support Sr. Trader, Sales Executives, and Commodities/Account Specialists in efforts to gain and retain customers/vendors including logging appropriate information into CRM
- Create new customer/supplier relations in system
Knowledge required
- Experience in an Import/Export, Customer Service, and local logistics environment is preferred
- Proficiency in MS Office
- Knowledge of Contact Management Systems
- Database software
- Inventory Software
- Order processing systems preferred
- Thrives and works well in tied ambiguous situations and deadline pressures
- Willingness to learn
- Record-keeping, tracking shipping, and data analyses
- High level of initiative/proactivity
- Extremely detail-oriented
- Strong organizational skills and ability to multitask
- Very good verbal and written English communication skills
- Working hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm or 9:00am-6:00pm (daylight saving time)