West Dublin based Ocean Freight Forwarder, now seek to hire an experienced Ocean freight forwarder with experience of the Far Eastern market. The successful applicant will join a fast paced environment and will be required to think on their feet and have good attention to detail. Teamwork is essential for success in this role.
The Role:
- Minimum of year years recent relevant experience in ocean freight operations.
- Be confident in dealing with overseas suppliers and clients, arranging and monitoring shipments, deliveries, customs clearance, and documentation.
- Demonstrate a consistently high level of customer service & professionalism.
- Be experienced in meeting deadlines, prioritising tasks and taking ownership for your workload.
- Customs clearance experience is preferred but not essential (training can be provided).
- Foster and develop good relations with both existing and potential customers to ensure retention and growth.
- Liaise with carriers and overseas partners to ensure the department is proactive in providing a quality operational performance.
- Delivery and collection scheduling and dealing with carriers / subcontractors and third parties.
- Ownership and management of dedicated traffic lanes.
- Develop in-depth knowledge of all aspects of the role to ensure full ownership.
- Deal with all customer phone sales and/or customer queries.
- Ensure that all tariffs are kept up to date on the system.
- Maintaining and / or implementing good working practices & procedures to ensure that departments run efficiently and with professionalism.
- Ensuring timely and effective communication of Rate changes to customers.
- Timely Billing and accruing of shipments within the companies guidelines.
- Ensuring that the companies Quality guidelines are met on an ongoing basis.
- Active involvement with sales/Customer Services / Management to highlight areas of concern and feedback on crucial information.
- Customs Clearance formalities in line with Department guidelines.
Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years recent Ocean Freight Forwarding experience within a busy European forwarding market.
- Customs clearance knowledge.
- A 3rd level qualification in Transport / Logistics, FIATA Diploma or International CPC would be desirable.
- An excellent customer-centric attitude towards business and a good communicator.
- A hands-on approach with the ability to maintain priorities and deadlines.
- IT literate with experience of freight management and customs software.
- Excellent administrative skills.
- The ability to work on own initiative.
- Flexibility to adapt to changing demands.
Terms:
Full time, permanent
Package:
€Neg. basic with bonus and pension
For a confidential discussion on this or any other current opportunity please contact Garvan Cerasi
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