Air & Seafreight Export Operations

Location: Atlanta, GA.
Subsidiary: Röhlig USA LLC
Country: United States
Start: asap

Coordinates the activities and ensures expeditious delivery of Export Air and Sea consignments in a timely manner to customers, as per customer orders and prescribed quality standards while using discretion and independent judgment to increase margin on each shipment. Assists in achieving branch goals and targets while always following company standard operating procedures, policies and processes including, but not limited to, increasing company profit.

Responsibilities

Increasing Branch Profits

• Discretion to engage vendors
• Utilize discretion and independent judgment to engage vendors to increase margin on each shipment
• Employee profit and loss on each shipment will be analyzed
• Management of vendors
• Overall management of desk to maximize profit
• Negotiate rates with shipping vendors
• Utilize discretion and independent judgment to ship goods using the most efficient, cost effective route to increase margin on each shipment

Coordinating Operations with Air & Seafreight Exports

• Operating customs exit systems, ensuring relevant input data is recorded for obtaining E.C.N clearance
• Arranging pick up and on behalf of the client/agent as required
• Ensures compliance with all regulations prescribed by USA customs/IATA/TSA & FMC
• Ensuring support documentation is available and correct
• Ensure timely delivery to carrier’s consolidators, packing depots, costing invoicing and collection of correct charges.
• Booking freight with Airlines, Ocean carriers and consolidators and obtaining freight rates
• Registration of shipments
• Reporting to customs where relevant
• Accurate completion of bills of lading and airway bills

Air Client and Supplier Management

• Keeps record of discrepancies via the Innovations and Incidents Management (IIM) to ensure compliance.
• Traces orders and ensures that information affecting arrival or dispatch is communicated to customers (internally and externally) or their agents
• Review quotes and records rates to clients and prospective clients
• Deploys information about all contact with customer and supplies to all parties
• Keeps in touch with competitor activities and industry trends, and attends industry related functions and seminars when required
• Regularly reviews reports in order to refine and improve service to the customer
• Manages allocated customers using established tools (e.g activity reports) in order to achieve and exceed targets

Financial and Accounting Responsibilities

• Ensures the department (cost centre) achieves it financial and quality objectives
• Processes air and sea freight debtors & creditors in an expeditious manner
• Resolves export accounting issues related to forwarding cost/payment, overseas invoicing, free domicile

Skills required

• Team orientated
• Customer focused
• Attention to detail
• Essentially two years of previous related experience with Air and Ocean Export
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Experience with Microsoft office
• Resilient
• High school diploma or G.E.D.
• Excellent time management
• Familiarity with basic freight forwarding procedures
• Experience with EDI a plus
• Excellent customer service and administration skills
• Shows initiative and drive

What you can expect?

Working at Röhlig means to live internationality: Every day staff members around the world cooperate on developing logistics solutions for their customers. Smart minds with drive encounter numerous opportunities to 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.

Our benefits

We look forward to meeting you!

Your contact

Mark Aulisio
Recruiter
224-563-3240
[email protected]