Job Title: Senior Ocean Freight Coordinator.
Job Summary:
Coordinate shipments from various domestic and foreign Suppliers. Must be located in Miami area. This is not a remote job.
Essential Qualifications:
- Excellent hands-on working knowledge of US Domestic freight transportation via truck, rail, rail piggyback, airfreight, and ocean freight.
- Hands-on experience coordinating ocean freight shipments.
- Working knowledge of cross-dock, freight consolidation, container loading and port dray operations.
- Experience in ocean freight documentation, filing electronic AES Entries.
- Pricing Analysis and negotiation skills- ability to perform freight cost analysis, negotiate rates, read ocean rates, harmonized classifications, and complete bills of ladings.
- Knowledge of handling time and temperature sensitive shipments.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Excellent Customer Service skills.
- Review purchase orders in the system to determine weekly scheduling of activity and movement of purchase orders. (Experience in handling perishable goods is important.)
- Booking ocean freight with carriers.
- Follow established guidelines and process inbound shipments via cross-dock faculties.
- Determine shipment origin points and set up pickup plans.
- Excellent follow-up daily, weekly, and monthly pending shipments and meet the required purchase order service levels and inventory balances.
- Communicate shipment information and transit issues internally and externally with buyers, product suppliers and transportation suppliers.
- Scheduling of shipments with Suppliers, truckers, warehouses, brokers, ship companies and buyers.
- Update Systems with shipment data and produce all required documents for AES, US Customs, Shipping Companies etc.
Education and Experience:
- Technical training in Traffic/Transportation, US Customs, or related field is a PLUS.
- Minimum of ten (10) years of hands-on experience in shipping.
- Five (5) years of Import & Export freight and documentation.
- Excellent computer skills, use of shipping software, Excel, Word and Data Entry Systems.
Language Skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. (Prefer bilingual English & Spanish)
- Ability to read, analyze and interpret transportation and purchase documents.
- Ability to clearly express yourself both verbally and in writing.
Mathematical Skills:
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts with percentages, area and volumes.
Leadership and reasoning skills:
- Ability to resolve practical operational problems and deal with a variety of variables and situations that require the cooperation of many individuals to get the work completed on time within budget.