Logistics Manager - Entry Level

The Logistics Coordinator role at Taphandles UK is responsible for managing the complex logistics around our worldwide business. Taphandles UK brings new beverage dispense concepts, mainly bespoke beer fonts, from idea to reality. We are in the business of helping breweries and beverage companies sell their products by making them stand out against their competition. You’ll be proud to see the product of your work at the local pub or restaurant serving beverages from the fonts you helped bring to market.

Taphandles UK is a technical leader, meaning we take on and succeed at the most challenging projects. We delight our customers by creating solutions they didn’t think were possible. Taphandles UK manages worldwide projects for the five continents of Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia, and South America.

The Logistics Coordinator responsibilities include managing our UK store room, tracking inventory, physically receiving, and physically shipping product coming in by air freight, container freight, and local delivery. Additional responsibilities include managing and purchasing from local suppliers, freight forwarders, and generally real world execution of tasks at our Witney workshop.

On shipping days you'll prepare pallets of shipments and drive a fork truck loading and unloading. This currently happens about 2 days per month but planned to grow. For the rest of the month this is an office job communicating with freight forwarders, vendors, and our internal team to make sure everything is moving around the world as needed.

The Logistics Coordinator is a key role that involves high levels of cross-functional collaboration to drive accountability, continuous improvement, and optimize outcomes that achieve business objectives for projects, projects, and initiatives. Skills such as leadership, communication, time management, adaptation and critical thinking on projects are appreciated. Being detail oriented and reading through documents thoroughly is critical.

This job will be a full time in-person role located in Witney, Oxfordshire, UK.

Requirements

What you will need to succeed:

• Must be able to do manual handling up to 16kg.
• This is an entry level position, so previous experience is not required. We will train you to succeed in our business.
• We seek quick learners.
• Problem solving approach: we do difficult things and need people who are always working towards a solution, overcoming roadblocks, and finding the possible.
• Ownership and responsibility to iterate quickly.
• This is a detail-oriented job. Every shipment and purchase has many details to keep straight, and this is something some people are good at and others not. Please self-select if this is for you.
• University graduate – any subject. We are looking for ambitious people who want to grow into a leadership role in the supply chain field.
• Mention your favorite beverage in your application to show me you read this far.
• Good writing skills in English. Other languages a plus – we’re a worldwide business.

Salary: £37,000 per year

Flexible benefits including

• 26 days paid holiday per year
• Pension scheme with company match
• Relocation allowance if relocating

Taphandles is an equal opportunity employer