Transport & Admin Coordinator

Company Description

We’re looking for a Transport & Admin Co-Ordinator  to join our Inventory and Warehouse team

[Based in our Wishaw Offices]

About Sika

Sika is a specialty chemicals company with a leading position in the development and production of systems and products for waterproofing, bonding, sealing, damping, reinforcing, and protecting in the building sector and motor vehicle industry. Sika has subsidiaries in 101 countries around the world and manufactures in over 300 factories. Its more than 27,000 employees generated annual sales of CHF 9.3 billion in 2021.

About [BU/Function]

We are based in Wishaw in Scotland and have a small, but multi-talented staff who are all flexible and have a great degree of product knowledge and understanding who will guide the successful candidate and help support the development in all areas of the business.

Job Description

Purpose of the Role

The successful candidate will report to the Inventory Manger and work closely with both Production and customer to support as well as our transport partners, to ensure timely and accurate outbound shipments but also inbound and intercompany trade sales. We also have a training centre on site and this role also is required to assist in the day to day booking and running of this as required

 What’s In it for You?

An opportunity to join a forward thinking progressive company that has a global footprint with lots of career advancement opportunities. The overall objectives, responsibilities & KPIs in this role centre around ensuring that we hit delivery day/ time KPIs & customer satisfaction metrics.

This is not a narrow transport role and is a key role in the business for the right candidate to develop in both transport & logistics and also customer service knowledge. You will be expected to balance the needs of production facility and the customer whilst managing transport and ensuring effective communication with both the customer service & production teams. 

Main Key measures will include

• EHS and plant Safety - as with all employees.
• All transport measures in and out (other than raw materials)
• OTIF. (On time in full)
• Customer Returns

The Rewards:

You will be rewarded with a competitive salary, and a sweep of great benefits. We pride ourselves on our total reward package:

• Holiday 25 days rising to 28 days with service, plus bank holidays
• 8 to 5 Core Hours Working with some local team flexibility
• A company pension contribution of up to 10%
• Private healthcare for you, with option to add family
• Group life cover at 6x your annual salary
• Global Income Protection (PHI)
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Staff discount platform & Cycle to Work scheme
• Dedicated Service Awards for reaching key milestones
• Selected discounted Sika products

The Support:

You will receive, various on-line learning and also on the job training from a highly skilled experienced set of individuals, and having a small team here on site the management team locally are all very supportive and hands on in terms of able to help and train.

A significant commitment to professional and personal development from day one, including a comprehensive local, product knowledge and leadership development initiatives complimented by a global Sika Business School offering.

The Skills:

We would be looking for a highly motivated self-managed person who can work to priorities, multi-task and develop along with the rest of the team to contribute to the ongoing success of the Wishaw plant and of the business overall.

We would like the individual to be very customer focused, and to have knowledge of basic transport planning and various office admin roles, with an intermediate level understanding of MS Packages.

We operate a SAP ERP System and experience of this or a similar platform business system would be desirable, although this can of course be learned to accommodate a strong candidate in that has the range of appropriate skills above.

The Future: 

Potential Career Routes: We have 5 UK Operations plants and there is opportunity for the right candidate to not only advance within Wishaw but also at UK level as well as further opportunity to progress within a global company across a variety of business areas.

Qualifications

• Willingness to adapt learn and be flexible.
• An individual with a self-starting can do attitude with ability to backfill, multi task and support where needed.
• A professional face to the customer, friendly outgoing and ability to prioritise and be solutions driven in all aspects of day-to-day tasks management.
• Ability to take on continuous improvement projects and look for improvements in not only this role but also in other areas that touch this role.
• MS Office intermediate. & Ideally ERP Knowledge or understanding/ability to fast learn a stock control system such as SAP.