Senior Ocean Freight Coordinator

Job Title: Senior Ocean Freight Coordinator.

Job Summary:

Coordinate shipments from various domestic and foreign Suppliers.

Essential Qualifications:

• Excellent hands-on working knowledge of US Domestic freight transportation via truck, rail, rail piggyback, airfreight, and ocean freight.
• Hands-on experience coordinating ocean freight shipments.
• Working knowledge of cross-dock, freight consolidation, container loading and port dray operations.
• Experience in ocean freight documentation, filing electronic AES Entries.
• Pricing Analysis and negotiation skills- ability to perform freight cost analysis, negotiate rates, read ocean rates, harmonized classifications, and complete bills of ladings.
• Knowledge of handling time and temperature sensitive shipments.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Excellent Customer Service skills.
• Review purchase orders in the system to determine weekly scheduling of activity and movement of purchase orders. (Experience in handling perishable goods is important.)
• Booking ocean freight with carriers.
• Follow established guidelines and process inbound shipments via cross-dock faculties.
• Determine shipment origin points and set up pickup plans.
• Excellent follow-up daily, weekly, and monthly pending shipments and meet the required purchase order service levels and inventory balances.
• Communicate shipment information and transit issues internally and externally with buyers, product suppliers and transportation suppliers.
• Scheduling of shipments with Suppliers, truckers, warehouses, brokers, ship companies and buyers.
• Update Systems with shipment data and produce all required documents for AES, US Customs, Shipping Companies etc.

Education and Experience:

• Technical training in Traffic/Transportation, US Customs, or related field is a PLUS.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of hands-on experience in shipping.
• Five (5) years of Import & Export freight and documentation.
• Excellent computer skills, use of shipping software, Excel, Word and Data Entry Systems.

Language Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. (Prefer bilingual English & Spanish)
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret transportation and purchase documents.
• Ability to clearly express yourself both verbally and in writing. 

Mathematical Skills:

• Ability to calculate figures and amounts with percentages, area and volumes.

Leadership and reasoning skills:

• Ability to resolve practical operational problems and deal with a variety of variables and situations that require the cooperation of many individuals to get the work completed on time within budget.