Airfreight Imports Operations Specialist

Airfreight Import Operations Specialist

Business Unit: DHL Global Forwarding

Location: Cedar Drive, Co. Dublin

Scope of Role: Responsible for managing the end-to-end import documentation and delivery process for air freight shipments, ensuring timely coordination with internal teams and compliance with customer-specific requirements.

Reports to: Airfreight Import Team Lead

Days & Hours of Work: Monday – Friday, 09:00 – 17:30

Role Profiler: Airfreight Manager

Accountabilities

Key activities

Key Accountabilities

• Processes, handles and distributes all required documents in the receiving area
• Performs delivery arrangement
• Ensures customer requirements are met & documents are completed in a timely & efficient manner
• Liaise with GSC team re: customer specific requirements. Processes, handles, and distributes all required documents in the shipping area.
• Ensure operational compliance to all revenue and international trade legislative requirements, and all requirements under Data Protection Legislation in addition to all DGF IE policies and procedures (H&S, Quality, Environmental, HR, etc), and work in a manner that supports the Company environment programme
• Participate in the implementation of operational processes and perform work to the standards of Good Distribution practice (GDP) for Life Science business, as required.

Competencies

Relationships with others

• Communicates in an open and honest manner.
• Treats others with respect, develops trust and values diversity.
• Demonstrates sensitivity to diversity, i.e., culture, gender, age, religion, race disability.
• Develops effective relationships with employees, peers, and managers.
• Confidence in dealing with all levels in the business over the telephone and also on a face-to-face basis.
• Ability to remain calm when dealing with difficult people.
• Good listening skills and ability to respond in a clear, respectful manner.

Teamwork

• Commitment to fulfilling their role in a team.
• Supportive approach to other team members.
• Shares information, knowledge, ideas, and experience freely with others.
• Commits to team decisions and contributes to building a team spirit.
• Works collaboratively with others to achieve team or business objectives.
• Establishes acceptable levels of quality and quantity of work; reviews, recognises and supports achievement
• Encourages and motivates team members and work colleagues

Customer Orientation

• Basis decisions on how his/her actions impact on customers and DHL.
• Builds and maintains effective relationships with customers, suppliers, and other departments.
• Focuses on the needs of customer and seeks to meet and exceed expectations.
• Quickly and practically solves problems, seeking advice where necessary.
• Appreciates what customers want and continuously strives to meet customer expectations.

Problem Solving

• Identifies issues, problems, and opportunities.
• Deep dives to identify root causes of issues
• Applies formal problem-solving techniques
• Evaluates risk
• Gathers information and analyses cause and effect.
• Quickly and practically solves problems.
• Establishes effective work processes and measures.
• Documents and communicates awareness of the problem, solution and action taken.

Commitment to Excel

• Achieves work targets and is willing to take on additional roles/responsibilities.
• Continuously reviews current processes.
• Seeks and is open to feedback from others.
• Always behaves in a manner consistent with DHL's values.
• Demonstrates a positive attitude to change.
• Flexible approach to work.
• Looks for opportunities in a changing situation.
• Provides detailed advice to others
• Takes initiative to keep skills up to date

Procedural Skills

• Ability to organize own workload across a range of responsibilities & meet deadlines.
• Ability to select appropriate procedures.
• Ability to follow procedures.
• Ability to meet procedural deadlines.
• Ability to improve an existing procedure.
• Ability to create a procedure.

Attention to Detail

• Ability to work with lots of data to high level of accuracy.
• Ability to apply high attention to detail to written (text) documents.
• Ability to follow through on procedures and ensure completion.

Skills / Qualifications:

• Expected years of experience (minimum)
• Knowledge of AFR Import Operations
• Expected Qualifications Good MS Office Skills
• Strong Admin Skills
• Results Driven with attention to detail.
• DG Qualification Advantageous
• Envirotainer training Advantageous
• Customs process knowledge beneficial.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to this role. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed. The Company reserves the right to revise or amend duties at any time.