Freight & Shipping Manager

7 months ago


Pretoria, South Africa Innovative Staffing Solutions Full time

**Designation of Vacancy**:
Freight & Shipping Manager

**Start Date**:
Immediately

**Priority**:
Urgent

**General Description of Position**:
policies, standards and procedures in accordance to freight business and the company's needs,

freight business resources, including manpower, internal assets and external vendors as well as

permits and compliance.

**Skills**:
Excellent communication skills and language proficiency;
Exceptional interpersonal skills;
Vast knowledge of shipping, freight and global distribution.

A minimum of 10 years’ experience in the industry.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
Liaise with all relevant stakeholders within the company to streamline the company’s imports, exports as well as distribution.

Build a culture of business process improvements that extend beyond project life cycle.

Communicate importance of achieving cargo handling time frame outcomes with efficient use of resources.

Develop compliance strategy with internal stakeholders to achieve acceptable level of internal compliance and industry standards.

Develop freight shipment solutions for improvements and/or closing gaps.

Drive business processes improvement solutions.

Educate employees on the variations in rating principles and state as well as operator variations.

Engage senior management for buy-in to implement solution identified.

Facilitate exception handling of cargo documentation process according to industry standards or sector requirements.

Maintain relationships with vendors, carriers, freight forwarders and port authorities to provide competitive shipping solutions for the company.

Manage carrier ranking or customer priority system to ensure strategic business is protected during periods of capacity shortage.

Manage performance of logistics partners to ensure compliance and alignment with customer requirements and contractual obligations.

Motivate colleagues at organisational level to develop innovative solutions.

Resolve escalated incidents and crisis arising from day-to-day operations.

Review changes in compliance/tariff/rate/cost/quotation requirements and eligibility to manage impact on compliance operations.

Manage permits and legal compliance with regards to import and export as well as distribution of the company’s products and suppliers.

Generate a national distribution platform and strategic plan as well as the implementation.

**Salary**: R28 000,00 - R35 000,00 per month



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