CitySprint careers

Operations Coordinator | Manchester | Permanent

Salary: 25,771

Shifts: Various shifts between 7 am to 7 pm

Hours: 40  hours per week, Monday-Friday

Location: Office based

Benefits and perks:

• An impressive holiday allowance that rises in line with your years of service.
• Additional day off for your birthday so you can celebrate in style.
• Death in Service allowance to ensure your loved ones are provided for in the event of tragedy.
• Spend those crucial moments with your new-born baby with our enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave.
• Complimentary day of annual leave to cherish unmissable family moments – could be graduation, first day of school.
• Look after your wellbeing with access to a health and wellness program.
• Make the most of ‘Medicash Perks at Work’ – a tool for CitySprint colleagues to enjoy a variety of high-street discounts and rewards.
• Our ride to work scheme means you can keep fit while saving money – what’s not to like?

CitySprint is on a Fast track to become the UK’s leading courier services provider, with current market domination of the Same day service areas already.

Through regular investment in our people, our service offering and our customer proposition, we are paving the way for courier services to be more intuitive, more capable, and more responsive to our customers’ needs than ever before!

Being this awesome takes a lot of hard work and commitment to our company values and vision. So naturally we need to secure top-notch Operations Coordinator to ensure we continue growing and improving every day.

This is where YOU come in!

CitySprint has an exciting opportunity for an Operations Coordinator in our Manchester office.

We are looking for a superstar who enjoys coordinating team activities and efforts to ensure a streamlined and efficient operation, resulting in excellent service for our customers and colleagues.

In this role, you will build excellent working relationships with both staff and clients in the Service Centre and beyond, acting as the go-to person who designs and delivers an effective operation with couriers and suppliers.

Main responsibilities:

• Answer phone lines promptly and professionally.
• Arrange relevant collections, transit routes, and deliveries.
• Input event tracking for all bookings and in-transit consignments.
• Liaise with Operations departments and, where required, Imports to ensure imports arrive within agreed SLAs (transit times).
• Provide customers with updates on all exceptions or issues.
• Request and enter all PODs from relevant agents.
• Report all discrepancies to Managers.
• Provide quotes when requested to the relevant customer.
• Monitor emails for the Service Centre.
• Work with suppliers (agents) to deliver a seamless, high-quality customer experience.

The ideal candidate will:

• Have some experience supporting control with dispatching or allocating vehicles.
• Treat people with respect under all circumstances.
• Respond promptly and appropriately to the needs of customers and suppliers, ensuring their requests are met.
• Ensure all jobs are collected and delivered within agreed timescales – delivery by time.
• Deal effectively and promptly with client operational queries, keeping clients fully informed of outcomes.
• Be proactive in suggesting improvements to service delivery.
• Be a skilled listener, able to understand and empathise with customers while appreciating the customer-supplier relationship.
• Have the ability to self-motivate and work with minimal supervision.

If this Operations Coordinator role sounds like you, we really want to hear from you!

Additional information:
The successful candidate will be required to undergo a DBS check as part of the recruitment process. Conditional job offers are subject to a satisfactory DBS check.