Built on a foundation of industry-leading technology, a world-class team and a scientific approach to building global brands, The Hut Group are fast becoming the world’s most important online retail organisation.

The Hut Group's primary focus is health, beauty, prestige, and nutrition related consumer goods and the company owns and operates many leading brands including LookFantastic.com, Grow Gorgeous, Mio Skincare and MyProtein.com - The world’s #1 online sports nutrition brand. THG’s plans for 2017 includes further significant investment in pioneering and innovative technologies, acquisitions and international expansion.

THG is looking for someone to manage the Group’s Logistics function for all shipments in and out of Asia. Your primary focus will be to ensure that stock is delivered to and from the warehouses by couriers in a timely fashion, so that customer orders can be fulfilled accurately and on time. You will work with external freight forwarders and 3rd Party Logistics companies to ensure that inbound and outbound transport for Asia region is delivered in as efficient and cost efficient manner as possible. This is an exciting but challenging role where you will be required to work with existing 3PL partners and can also seek out new solutions and partners where this will benefit the business. For this role we are ideally looking for someone that has lived in Asia for many years who understands the culture and speaks Mandarin.

You will be based at our offices in the NW UK.

Key Responsibilities

• To ensure that logistics transport and delivery solutions are provided to meet with targets set by the business by driving strategic initiatives

• To develop new partners in both emerging and developed territories

• To optimise and drive efficiencies of existing delivery lanes

• To work with centralised functions efficiently to ensure that any tasks that involving or affecting carriers – including payments, Customer Services , IT & Tech , Marketing Opportunities are executed efficiently and in a timely fashion.

• To optimise the mix of costs and service in line with the business expectations

• To continuously and sustainably ensure that THG’s customers experience the best possible service from our partners

• To carry out this role effectively you will need to have a good understanding of current network and key partners for Asia and capability to negotiate service deliverables and cost savings

• You will also be required to arrange BD meetings with senior counterparts from all our supply network in relation to delivery

• Arrange air transport for urgent and high-value freight and managing the risk door to door

• Deal with special arrangements for transporting delicate cargos

• Maintain communication and control through all phases of the journey

• Maintain current knowledge of relevant legislation, political situations and other factors that could affect the movement of freight

• Ensuring the business is compliant with regulations relevant to Logistics

• To develop the relationship between technology and seamless logistics

• To develop excellent working relationships with our global 3PL’s

To be considered for this role you will need to have:

• Experience working in the Transport and Delivery side of Logistics, with international freight forwarders and 3PL partners plus a very good understanding of logistics and e-commerce in Asia.

• Excellent communication skills - you will be liaising with a variety of people

• Clarity in communication, as major problems could arise through inaccuracies

• Good organisational and planning skills

• Good geographical knowledge

• Flexibility and the ability to adapt to changing circumstances

• Problem-solving ability, particularly when working under pressure

• Accuracy and attention to detail

• For this role we are ideally looking for someone that has lived in Asia for many years who understands the culture and speaks Mandarin.

You will also need to be based within a reasonable commute of our offices in the North West UK.