Operations Specialist in Cardiff

JAS is an international, non-asset-based supply chain services and solutions company. Our services include air and ocean freight forwarding, contract logistics, customs brokerage, distribution, inbound logistics, truckload brokerage and other supply chain management services, including consulting, the coordination of purchase orders and customized management services.

The purpose of this position is to improve operation accuracy through daily reporting, goal analysis, and reconciliation of documents, customer and company system discrepancies, thereby enhancing operations efficiency.

• Consolidation of documents of operations and transportation (booking, BL, pre-advices, loading confirmation)
• Manage import and export bookings according to booking log sheet and coordinate with Customer Services team and JAS origin station, maintain routing guide
• Execute co-loader policy within group policy, review and measure the performance of co-loader
• Ensure accurate hub billing and job costing
• Monitor cost leadership for cost of sales
• Conduct rate analysis
• Monitor and secure allocations and operation efficiency
• Update and inform supervisors of transportation issues to be solved for the origin offices or customer issues in terms of capacity planning
• Create reports of operations

• Ability to communicate openly and confidently
• Ability to influence and convince others in a way that results in acceptance and agreement
• Ability to shape conversations to ensure focus and understanding
• Capable of making informed judgments and generating practical, timely solutions
• Ability to find pragmatic solutions by using decision making techniques
• Willingness to involve stakeholders in decision making process, to get buy-in and implement solutions

• Intermediate level of knowledge in Microsoft Excel
• Working knowledge of standard and accepted runner practices
• Years of experience: 2 in the same position

100% performed in a climate-controlled internal office environment working under normal office conditions. Travel may be required up to 100% in support of the position’s responsibilities. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands and fingers to feel and handle, reach with arms and hands, talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stop, kneel, crouch, lift weight or exert a force up to a maximum of 25 pounds. This position requires the employee to frequently work in a fluid, fast-paced environment.

The responsibilities associated with this job will change from time to time in accordance with the company’s business needs. More specifically, the incumbent may be required to perform additional and/or different responsibilities from those set forth above. The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job.