Kickstart your career with an exciting opportunity to join Raytec, a global leader in innovative lighting solutions! As a Business Administration apprentice, you’ll play a vital role in organising shipments of our products across the UK and around the world, while gaining hands-on experience preparing essential logistics documents and paperwork.
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work:
- Prepare shipping documentation including delivery notes, commercial invoices, and freight labels
- Generate carriage quotes for UK and international shipments
- Expedite deliveries of orders and returned materials (RMAs)
- Clear imports from suppliers and arrange shipments for Purchasing, Technical, and
- Marketing departments
- Book freight shipments for exhibitions and special events
- Order attested documentation required for exports
- Check freight invoices and raise queries on discrepancies
- Review Duty Deferment and Postponed VAT Accounting (PVA) accounts
- Review duty and VAT invoices for imports
- Send customer delivery notes and provide tracking information
- Record proof of deliveries and import/export documents for audit purposes
- Supporting our Canadian office with expediting deliveries and shipping queries
- Cover sales invoicing duties as required
- Scan and attach signed delivery notes into SAP
- Assist with ad-hoc office administration and support wider office functions
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across the business
Requirements:
- GCSE or equivalent English (Grade 4) essential
- GCSE or equivalent Maths (Grade 4) essential
- Administrative skills
- Attention to detail
- Communication skills
- Customer care skills
- IT skills
- Logical
- Number skills
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working