Logistics Coordinator Import / Export

Responsibilities

• Create, book and track dray (ocean container) moves from origin to destination
• Schedule and manage delivery appointments based on availability, and container arrival.
• Negotiate rates with carriers analyzing more effective rates.
• Ensure that billing of freight charges is effectively carried out.
• Facilitate audit of billing and payment of freight charges.
• Keep an open line of communication with the customer to advise of any issues.
• Maintain exceptional relationships with all carriers and partner with the transportation team to provide outstanding customer service.
• Update and maintain rate files and supply rates to management as needed.
• Perform other related duties as requested, directed or assigned.

 Requirements:

Qualifications:

• Two or Four year college degree is a plus. High School diploma is required.
• Candidates for this role should possess a personal style that reflects enthusiasm, high energy, an excellent work ethic, and excellent organizational skills.
• Must be able to quickly process information and make decisions. An ability to translate and enter data correctly with demonstrated attention to detail is essential.
• Candidates must possess 3+ years of transportation, traffic management, and/or dispatch related work experience. Some exposure to other supply chain activities would be a plus.
• Candidates must demonstrate a working knowledge with a TMS (Mercury Gate) or other similar system.
• Demonstrates ability to organize and manage multiple priorities
• Shows a strong customer orientation and is able to maintain exceptional relationships with carriers, customers and internal team members.
• Possesses intermediate level skills in Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Highly self-motivated, efficient and productive

Physical demands and work environment: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal.

• This is largely a sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require the ability to lift and/or move office equipment and files ranging anywhere from 5 – 15 lbs,
• Must be physically able to open filing cabinets and bend, stand, balance, stoop or twist as necessary.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, listen and hear on the phone for long periods of time.
• Vision abilities required by the job include close vision and distance vision.

Mental Demands While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to use written and oral communication skills; read and interpret data, information and documents; analyze and solve non-routine and complex office administrative problems; use math and mathematical reasoning; observe and interpret situations; learn and apply new information or skills; perform highly detailed work on multiple, concurrent tasks; work under intensive deadlines with frequent interruptions; and interact with managers, staff, customers, the public and others encountered in the course of work, some of whom may be dissatisfied or offensive individuals