Our client is a successful Canadian freight forwarder with a strong focus on the Pacific Rim and European trade lanes.
They have multiple offices in Canada. This is in-office.
Do you like to be busy in a fast-paced environment and to be rewarded, based on your performance?
This position reports to the Branch Manager.
Email: kevin@buckleysearch.com or anna@buckleysearch.com
Duties:
- Receive pre-advice notes
- Dispatch orders from client to assigned carriers
- Monitor and confirm arrival of oceanfreight shipments
- Pre-alert customer on upcoming shipments
- Coordinate with other departments/offices to respond to customer inquiries
- Set up new customer files in system
- Arrange trucking and warehouse requirements
- Break down and distribute into files and calculate charges
- Invoice shipments according to client rates
- Responsible for customer contacts, follow up contacts per telephone/Email
- Assure timely billing as per company policy
- Interact with international clients providing excellent customer service support
- Escalate issues to management level if required
- Respond to e-mail and telephone requests in a timely manner
- Contact shippers to gather required documentation and shipment info, check documentation, coordinate shipments with help of overseas offices, send pre-alerts
- Follow SOPs and ensure internal network complies with them
- Any additional task or activity as requested by management
Qualifications/Experience:
- Extensive Ocean Imports experience in freight forwarding.
- Knowledge of ocean imports and trucking sector procedures and processes.
- Knows supplier conditions, deliver terms, Incoterms and purchasing conditions; knows risk and insurance terms
- Strong computer skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Responsive, proactive and dedicated to full customer service
- Strong time management skills and ability to monitor & change priorities as required.
Compensation: Salary according to industry experience, plus performance-based bonus; company health/medical benefits
