Shipping Freight Manager at Alistair Group

Job Summary

We are looking for someone who is organized, pays attention to detail and an applicant who can hit the ground running. You will need to be familiar with a warehousing environment and ideally "hit the ground running".
.If you have managed a team, this would be highly beneficial The sooner you are available to start, the better.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Consolidate All ocean freight operations for Tanzania and Durban. 
• Rate negotiations for Tanzania and Durban.
• Maintain strong relationship with all shipping lines.
• Ensure rates are provided timeously to all clients.
• Monitor all ocean freight payments, draft BLs, OBLs and releases within set KPIs.
• Lead the team in Tanzania and Durban to expand the department and service offering to clients relating to Ocean freight.
• Monitor time lines set out in Tanzania and Durban to prevent any short shipments.
• Weekly and monthly reporting on shipments, revenue and P&L for the division.

Qualifications and Skills

• Matric
• Relevant tertiary education an added advantage
• 5 - 10 years work experience 
• Ocean freight manager/maritime/Warehousing/transit cargo.
• Manager or senior supervisor level
• Systems, export processes, strong leader, process driven, working after hours.
• Tanzania exports, imports, shipping, warehousing, existing relationship with shipping lines.