Logistics Coordinator CV Examples & Writing Guide

This is a mid-level CV for a coordinator at a manufacturer shipping from two UK plants. The name and employers are invented. Notice that every job states loads per week, the modes, the systems and an on-time or cost number. That is what a logistics manager scans for.

Logistics managers hire coordinators to take work off their desk: the 6am call about a missed collection, the haulier invoice that does not match the quote, the customer asking where their pallets are. The CV has to show you have already done that, at what volume, and in which systems.

• Volume and mode. Loads, consignments or bookings per day or week, and whether they were full loads, part loads, pallet network, parcel, sea, air or rail. "Coordinated shipments" could mean 5 a week or 500. Say which.
• Systems. The TMS, WMS or ERP you used every day (Transporeon, Oracle OTM, SAP TM or SD, Descartes, Mandata, Blue Yonder, Manhattan, NetSuite), carrier portals and EDI. Excel skill level matters; most reporting still happens there.
• A service and a cost number. On-time collection or delivery percentage, waiting-time or demurrage charges you controlled, freight spend or spot-hire use you reduced, claims recovery rate. One of each is enough.
• Evidence you chase problems. Late-load tracing, haulier no-shows, customs holds, damaged freight. Managers want a coordinator who calls the haulier before the customer calls them.

“Tell me how many loads a week, which TMS, and your on-time number. If you can also tell me one carrier problem you fixed on your own, I will call you. Most coordinator CVs I see give me none of the four.”

Write a personal statement once you have a year or more in logistics or transport planning. Write a career objective when you are moving in from the warehouse floor, customer service or the Armed Forces and need to connect the dots. In both cases the first line gives the volume, the modes and the systems.

People search for a "logistics coordinator job description for CV" and paste the advert back in. Managers see through that in one line. Take each duty and attach the volume, the system and the result. Here are the most common duties rewritten.

Keep the skills section to 10 to 14 items and make most of them nouns a manager can picture: a mode, a document, a system, a rule. Applicant tracking systems match on these exact words.

• Freight and modes: full loads (FTL), part loads, pallet networks, parcel, intermodal and rail, sea freight FCL/LCL, air freight, container haulage, final mile, same-day and dedicated courier.
• Documents and rules: delivery note and POD, CMR consignment note for international road freight, commercial invoice, ADR transport documents, Incoterms 2020, customs declarations through a broker, drivers' hours and tachograph basics for fleet roles.
• Systems: Transporeon, Oracle OTM, SAP TM/SD/MM, Blue Yonder, Manhattan or Körber WMS, NetSuite, CargoWise (international), Descartes, Paragon and Microlise (fleet), DPD, UPS and Royal Mail shipping systems, EDI status messages, freight exchanges such as Haulage Exchange.
• Analysis: Excel pivot tables and lookups, freight cost per pallet or per mile, carrier scorecards, on-time collection and delivery reporting, Power BI or Tableau dashboards if you built them.
• Working skills managers actually screen for: tracing and escalation with hauliers, delivery booking and dock scheduling, claims follow-through, clear written status updates, staying calm on the 6am missed-collection call, and flexibility for month-end and peak-season hours.

Leave off "teamwork" and "multitasking". Replace them with the thing you multitasked: "tracked 40 open loads while covering the dock schedule for a colleague on leave".

No licence is required to be a logistics coordinator in the UK. Most adverts ask for GCSEs or equivalent plus 1 to 3 years in despatch, transport planning or customer service; a foundation degree or degree in logistics, supply chain or business helps you move to analyst or manager later. A few qualifications carry weight.

• Worth listing: a CILT Level 3 Certificate or Level 5 Diploma in Logistics and Transport (APICS/ASCM CLTD and CSCP are recognised by international firms); ADR training if you prepare or sign dangerous goods documents (everyone involved in consigning dangerous goods must be trained, with refreshers); IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations training for air freight; a Six Sigma Yellow or Green Belt if you did a real project.
• Useful in specific settings: Transport Manager CPC for transport planner and fleet roles (it qualifies you to be the nominated transport manager on an operator's licence); IOSH Working Safely; accredited forklift training if you work near the loading bays; a C or C+E licence for fleet coordinators; customs and export courses, for example from the Institute of Export & International Trade, for import-heavy roles.
• List each with the awarding body and year, and mark anything in progress: "CILT Level 3 Certificate, in progress, completion expected 2027". Employer-provided training (forklift, ADR) counts; say who delivered it.
• Education goes below experience once you have 2+ years. Include relevant modules only for new graduates (transport management, procurement, inventory control).

Most coordinators are promoted from the loading bay, the transport office or a customer service seat, not hired from school or university. If that is your path, your CV already has logistics on it; you just have to translate it. If you are a new graduate, your placement, course projects and part-time work carry the page.

1. 1Lead with a career objective that names the systems and volumes you already touched (carrier shipping systems, a WMS, 300 consignments a shift) and the coordinator role you want.
2. 2Rewrite warehouse, despatch clerk, transport office or customer service bullets around logistics tasks: labels and delivery notes prepared, hauliers you called, booking logs you kept, discrepancies you found.
3. 3Add a Systems and Tools line even if the list is short. Excel with pivot tables counts. A free SAP or TMS demo course does not, unless you say it was a course.
4. 4Put a relevant degree or certificate above experience if it is recent: a foundation degree in logistics, a CILT Level 3 Certificate, a logistics apprenticeship, ADR awareness or forklift training.
5. 5One page. Managers hiring entry-level coordinators read for reliability: no gaps without a note, stable dates, a mobile number you answer.

• One page for anyone under about 8 years. Two pages only if you have run international, fleet and warehouse coordination at several employers.
• Order: header, personal statement, experience (with systems named inside the bullets), skills, qualifications, education.
• Plain format: one column, standard fonts, no photo or date of birth (standard in the UK), no tables for the skills list. Manufacturers and 3PLs often use Workday, SAP SuccessFactors or iCIMS to parse CVs, and tables scramble.
• Mirror the advert's words: "freight", "haulier management", "TMS", the mode names, "on-time delivery", "CMR", "booking in", "3PL", "stock accuracy", and the exact system names. If the advert says "transport planner" and you say "logistics coordinator", use both once.
• UK titles for the same job include logistics administrator, transport planner, transport coordinator and shipping coordinator. In the US the document is a resume and the title is often "transportation coordinator"; the content rules are the same.
• Save as PDF unless the portal asks for Word: Priya-Ramaswamy-Logistics-Coordinator.pdf.

Run the file through the cvplex ATS checker with the advert pasted in. It flags system names the advert mentions that you left out and a skills table the parser could not read.