Shipment Coordinator

Saab is looking for two shipment coordinators to strengthen the Customs & Transportation group at Business Area Aeronautics. The Customs & Transportation group is a group of shipping coordinators and customs specialists.

In this role you will ensure good support to the related Saab Business Areas within the transportation field. You will work as a main contact towards the forwarders and will have several internal interfaces. In this role you will participate in the realization of the future global logistics flow from a transportation perspective together with a growing Company with increased international footprint and increased business complexity.

Your role

The Shipment Coordinator has the following overall responsibility:

* Main Saab contact towards freight forwarders
* Provide key logistics competence within different projects
* Coordinate, monitor, handling, notify, follow up on shipments
* Support and monitor goods in bonded warehouse including special customs regimes
* Ensure customer specific requirements for shipments (e.g packing, documentation)
* Transport booking (TMS) and container management (availability, loading procedure, book)
* Secure transport documentation prior to shipment and archive transport documentation
* Secure and maintain data in ERP, TMS and other systems

Delivery process

The Shipment Coordinator will have several interfaces and work close with both warehouse personnel and external partners i.e. outsourced Control tower (CTA), forwarders, customers and government authorities. The handover of the responsibility for the shipments to the Shipment Coordinator is when the order line has been picked at warehouse and the packing procedure is about to start.

Your profile

The Shipment Coordinator shall have the following competence:

* Postsecondary education or have equivalent experience from the logistics field
* Good knowledge in Microsoft Office
* Good knowledge in ERP applications
* Great communicative ability verbally and in writing in both Swedish and English
* Great collaboration skills
* Great ability to plan, organize and take responsibility for own work
* Good knowledge in leading change management work within own and nearby areas of responsibility

​This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

What you will be a part of

The Shipment Coordinator's main responsibility is to make sure shipments are sent in time, with the correct documentation attached and that it arrives at the final location on the expected time and date. The Shipment Coordinator will work as the main contact towards the forwarder and monitor the shipment during transport and act on any disturbance.


Last application day 2023-01-15.

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement. Observe that you can send us your application in either Swedish or English.



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