AIR AND SEAFREIGHT EXPORTS
LOCATION: ATLANTA, GA
Responsibilities:
Increasing Branch Profits
- • Utilize discretion and independent judgment to engage vendors to increase margin on each shipment
- • Utilize discretion and independent judgment to ship goods using the most efficient, cost effective route to increase margin on each shipment
- • Discretion to engage vendors
- • Management of vendors
- • Negotiate rates with shipping vendors
- • Employee profit and loss on each shipment will be analyzed
- • Overall management of desk to maximize profit
Coordinating Operations with Air & Seafreight Exports
- • Ensuring support documentation is available and correct
- • Booking freight with Airlines, Ocean carriers and consolidators and obtaining freight rates
- • Arranging pick up and on behalf of the client/agent as required
- • Registration of shipments
- • Accurate completion of bills of lading and airway bills
- • Operating customs exit systems, ensuring relevant input data is recorded for obtaining E.C.N clearance
- • Reporting to customs where relevant
- • Ensure timely delivery to carrier’s consolidators, packing depots, costing invoicing and collection of correct charges.
- • Ensures compliance with all regulations prescribed by USA customs/IATA/TSA & FMC
Client and Supplier Management
- • Invoicing and collection of freight, agency and disbursements from clients
- • Resolve accounting issues related to forwarding cost/payment, overseas invoicing, free domicile, etc.
- • Approve credit notes, monitor cartage/waiting time costs
- • Process air freight and sea freight debtors/creditors in a expeditious manner
- • Supply support documentation & information of accounts on overdue payments in order to reduce impediments
Client and Supplier Management
- • Resolves discrepancies, while keeping a record via the Rohlig Way Quality System and SER’s
- • Regularly reviews reports in order to refine and improve service to the customer
- • Review quotes and records rates to clients and prospective clients
- • Manages allocated customers using established tools (e.g activity reports) in order to achieve and exceed targets
- • Traces orders and ensures that information affecting arrival or dispatch is communicated to customers (internally and externally) or their agents
- • Keeps in touch with competitor activities and industry trends, and attends industry related functions and seminars when required
- • Deploys information about all contact with customer and supplies to all parties
Financial and Accounting Responsibilities
- • Resolves export accounting issues related to forwarding cost/payment, overseas invoicing, free domicile
- • Processes air and sea freight debtors & creditors in an expeditious manner
- • Ensures the department (cost centre) achieves it financial and quality objectives
Skills required
- • High school diploma or G.E.D.
- • Familiarity with basic freight forwarding procedures
- • Essentially two years of previous related experience with Air and Ocean Export
- • Experience with Microsoft office
- • Experience with EDI a plus
- • Excellent customer service and administration skills
- • Attention to detail
- • Excellent time management
- • Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- • Resilient
- • Customer focused
- • Shows initiative and drive
- • Team orientated
What you can expect?
Play a vital role in this process. Flat hierarchies, a pleasant and friendly work environment, considerable opportunities for personal development and long-term career planning provide the basis for your success. If you are interested in this position, please send your resume and motivation letter to:
Ms. Kim Keck Human Resources Manager Rohlig USA, LLC | 1601 Estes Avenue | Elk Grove Village IL 600007 United States kim.keck(at)rohlig.com