Transportationspecialist

4 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa AJC International Full time

**Description**:
**About AJC International**:
***Job Summary**:
***Key Responsibilities**:
Including but not limited to:

- Analyze our booked business reports. Work with Operations and Sales Team teams to identify timeline for future shipments.
- Identify best routing for the execution of our shipments based on product readiness, trucking, and ocean carrier’s services availability.
- Address daily tactical issues with our internal customers and transportation vendors.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes and performance. Offer ideas on how to implement positive changes.
- Identify core business and key destinations for each of our transportation vendors to make best match with our business.
- Rate requests, negotiations, and management with our transportation vendors such as ocean carriers, trucking companies and freight forwarders.

**Essential Skills**:

- Exceptional organizational skills
- High attention to detail
- Able to meet deadlines and complete work accurately.
- Results driven.
- Ability to multitask & prioritize
- Able to work independently and with other team members.
- Professional written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, with strong experience in Excel.
- Positive, energetic, and able to work on a dynamic international environment.

**Education & Experience**:

- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, international Business or related field
- 1-2 years experience in Ocean transportation.
- Knowledge of refrigerated transportation (preferred)
- Advanced skills in MS Outlook, Excel and Oracle.

**Language Requirements**:

- Proficiency in a second language.

**Bachelor's** Experience:
**0-3 years