Logistics Team Leader

ViaEurope means smart Web-Apps & APIs combined with real warehouses, taking care of customs clearance for thousands of parcels each day, bringing products from all over the world to Europe!

ViaEurope is an e-logistics company founded in Amsterdam. Though we've been at the intersection of technology and logistics for years, we continue to operate and grow with a start-up mindset. Our mission is to support our clients by ensuring that customs clearance, sorting, and product handling are carried out efficiently and reliably, as required by local customs authorities, while meeting the high-speed demands of e-commerce.

Technology is at the very core of ViaEurope’s strategy and is also behind our connected warehouses, or e-HUBs, which are located at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Liège Airport in Belgium, Budapest in Hungary, and Frankfurt in Germany. With the right people, we’re poised to expand our team as we scale up our business.

The opportunity:

We are looking for a Logistics Team Leader to join our dynamic team at the Amsterdam E-hub. In this role, you’ll collaborate with the Logistics Supervisor and other team leaders to manage and elevate our inbound and outbound e-commerce shipments. Your will assist the supervisor to manage approximately 15 operators per shift, depends on you to lead by example, foster a positive work environment, and uphold our high standards of quality and timeliness.

Your responsibilities:

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  Daily operations: Coordinate daily logistics tasks among team members, ensuring that all shipments and warehouse processes are handled efficiently.
• Participate in logistics tasks: Assist with unloading and loading trucks, booking incoming and outgoing shipments, scanning, sorting, and palletizing parcels using our automated sorting machine.
• Drive operational improvement: Oversee daily logistics operations, ensuring processes are understood by assigned employees, followed, and continuously optimized. Inspire and guide your team to continuously improve, ensuring deadlines are met while maintaining a collaborative and efficient workspace.
• Safety and communication: Contribute to a safe, positive workplace and maintain communication with international drivers and team members.
• Administrative tasks: Complete essential logistics admin tasks as required.

Schedule

This is a shift-based role. You will coordinate with other Team Leaders to ensure coverage five days a week within our seven-day operation.

• Experience: Minimum three years in a similar logistics or team leadership role.
• Languages: Ability to communicate in Dutch and English, you will have to use that on a daily basis.
• Certification: Forklift truck/EPT certification is highly desirable. A first Aid course will be provided.
• Personal qualities: Proven organizational skills, resilience under pressure, strong team-player mentality, and a proactive, hands-on approach.
• Flexibility: The ability to work in a digital environment as well as flexibility in work hours is necessary.

If you’re ready to take on a key role in a fast-paced logistics environment, we’d love to hear from you!

About ViaEurope

We work in English and strongly believe that clear and effective written and verbal communication enhances the quality of our work, shaping the foundation of a successful team. At ViaEurope, one of our fundamental values is continuous self-development and taking ownership. We prioritise diversity, encompassing varied backgrounds and experiences, fostering an inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives and differences. To support our commitment to growth, ViaEurope provides an education budget for conferences and online learning materials, ensuring ongoing learning opportunities for all team members.

About us

• Scale-up mindset, and we are moving fast
• We believe that technology drives our business
• We care for work-life balance, we offer the flexibility to work from home while we work from the e-HUBs twice a week
• Our team includes diverse experiences, backgrounds, and languages
• Involvement: ability to participate in meetings, team building events, celebrations, and much more
• Self-empowerment: we believe in people and therefore give space for own initiatives and self-development
• Consistent efforts to onboard sustainable solutions and toward carbon neutrality

Interview process

1. Get-to-know call with the hiring team
2. Expertise and Skills Interview: A deep dive into your experience with the hiring managers. You will be invited to visit us, get to know the workplace, and experience our work environment.

And as our delivery time, we are also very fast with our recruiting process!