Head of Shipping

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa RecruiTech Full time

Our client, one of the South Africa’s proud distributors to some of the world’s leading professional audio, lighting and AV brands is looking for a Head of Shipping to join their team in Johannesburg.

**Responsibilities**:

- Overseeing operation: Air Import and Export / Sea Import and Export / Express Import and Export
- Implementation of systems in the shipping division
- Regular meetings with agents to ensure that air-/shipping line and destination agents’ services meet their needs
- Addressing day-to-day queries
- Negotiating rates
- Compiling of quotations for cost comparison purposes between various agents
- Loading new orders on ACCPAC (not a must)
- Negotiating lead time with suppliers
- Extensive liaising with overseas agent in expediting cargo / uplifting goods / booking of containers and meeting sailing dates
- The planning of airfreight pallets of their high-end equipment to utilize pallet/s and move cargo the most cost effective way
- Updating systems on arrival for sales purposes
- Collating and forwarding correctly completed documentation to destination agents to ensure prompt clearance of consignment and avoiding storage cost
- Attending to custom / NRCS stops, if relevant and arranging release / inspection
- Ensure that their products ordered complies with the NRCS
- Ensure that the company complies with customs regulation
- Ensure correct tariff headings are being used and compiling a tariff library
- Customs audit
- Understanding purpose codes / refund of duties
- Facilitating a temporary export and understand the process
- Receipt of stock in their systems
- Understanding Sea / Air / Express rates
- Calculating landed cost and freight percentage per shipment to ensure that shipping cost stay in line
- Analyze all documentation such as invoices, bill of ladings and other freight documentation
- Checking Invoices, querying discrepancies and signing off of invoices received from agents

**Requirements**:

- Matric
- Relevant tertiary education would be advantageous

**Skills**:

- The ability to prioritize and manage workload
- Self-driven & ability to work without supervision and a team player
- Strategic thinker
- Well organized
- Good decision maker
- Strong communication skills
- Good at implementing & maintaining systems and procedures
- Attention to detail
- Being able to work under pressure
- Strong in negotiating

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