Shipping Administrator

6 days ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Fides Recruitment Full time

**Shipping and Costing Administrator, JHB Branch**

**Purpose of the role**:
The Shipping Administrator will be responsible for the administration and costing of the day-to-day international shipments and ensure shipments are delivered on time by working closely with freight forwarders. To also investigate shipment-related issues and provides corrective and preventive actions.

**Areas of responsibility include**
- Liaise with Forwarding Agents and Overseas Suppliers on all shipments, documentations, ETAs and delivery schedules.
- Request quotations from the Forwarding Agents.
- Arranging the Ex-Works shipments from the supplier to Client.
- Tracking shipments with the Forwarder and providing feedback to internal customers timeously.
- Daily monitoring of the forwarder status report and updating the purchase order report accordingly.
- Arranging the shipment pre-clearance with the forwarders.
- Completing the clearing Instructions for customs clearance.
- Compiling the shipping documents and filling them on SharePoint.
- Escalation of problem to Management when necessary
- Proper data maintenance on systems and shipment.
- Ensure that the costs on the invoice balance back to the costs captured on the ERP.
- Resolve issues or queries relating to damaged and short-supplied stock received, with the supplier or forwarding agent immediately once you had been notified of the query.
- Work closely with Warehouse, Purchasing, Finance departments, and Forwarding Agents.

**Minimum requirements for this position include**:

- Matric with 3-year Tertiary Qualification
- 2-5 years’ experience in shipping and costing experience
- Import and Export knowledge
- Working knowledge of ERP System
- Good and updated knowledge of Incoterms
- Computer Literate in Microsoft packages
- Excellent admin skills

**Skills and Competencies required**:

- Excellent Interpersonal Skills
- Good communication Skills
- Work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Good time management and organisational skills to meet deadlines
- Strong attention to detail
- Problem-solving abilities
- Customer-focused
- Self-motivated

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PLEASE NOTE: We read all the CV's that are sent to us. Due to a high volume of CVs received, our response time might be delayed but please just bear with us.IF HOWEVER YOU HAVE NOT HEARD FROM US WITHIN TWO WEEKS, PLEASE CONSIDER YOUR APPLICATION UNSUCCESSFUL.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: R200,000.00 - R300,000.00 per year

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Johannesburg, Gauteng: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (preferred)



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